Digital Identifiers Workshop at ALA (fwd) Marcia Tuttle 03 May 1999 18:39 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:35:46 -0500 From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@NWU.EDU> Subject: Digital Identifiers Workshop at ALA The 1999 LITA Preconference: "Making Sense of Digital Identifiers for Internet and Other Applications" will take place on Friday, June 25 from 9a.m. - 4p.m. at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans. Early registration deadline is May 21, 1999. This workshop will highlight the growing need for such identifiers as presented by a formidable group of experts. Keynote speakers: Clifford Lynch, CNI and William Arms, CNRI Electronic identifiers are of increasing importance in the management of digital objects, both on and off the Internet, and affect services such as library operations, copyright privileges, item tracking, discovery and linking, commercial transactions, and archiving. This workshop will include theoretical, practical and descriptive information on many of the high profile identifiers that are now in use or under development, such as the Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) and CNRI's Handle System on which it is based, the International Standard Work Number (ISWN), and the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) concept. Applications, representative problems and complications surrounding their development and implementation, and examples of their use and management, will all be presented. This workshop is aimed at all levels of library staff that will be affected, from public services and bibliographers, to technical services. Scheduled speakers include: William Arms, Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Helen Barsky Atkins, Director of Database Development, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Leslie L. Daigle, URI expert and consultant Brian Green, Executive Director, Book Industry Communication (BIC) and EDItEUR Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Dr. Norman Paskin, Director of International Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist for OCLC's Office of Research For more details and registration information visit http://www.lita.org/ac99/precon99.htm or contact: Lloyd Davidson (Ldavids@nwu.edu) (out of town, May 4-10). Program made possible with support from ISI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lloyd A. Davidson Life Sciences Librarian and Head, Access Services Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering 2233 N. Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 Ldavids@nwu.edu (847)491-2906 (Voice) (815)371-1079 (fax)