Standards IG meeting at ALA

["Nathan D.M. Robertson" <nate@jhu.edu>]

There will be lots of licensing and rights-related content at the
Standards Interest Group meeting at ALA in Chicago:

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Highlights of Current and Emerging Standards

 LITA's Standards Interest Group Meeting
 Saturday June 25th
 4:30 - 5:30 PM
 Chicago Hilton & Towers, Williford C

Join us on Saturday at 4:30 for an exciting managed discussion on
current and emerging library technology standards:

* NISO Rights Expression Workshop

NISO recently held an invitational meeting to explore the standards needed
to support digital rights expression and management for scholarly and
educational information. Denise Troll Covey, chair of the Workshop
Planning Team, will report on the workshop and its outcomes.

* Publishers' Perspective on License Expression

Alicia Wise, Chief Executive of the Publishers Licensing Society, will
discuss the value that publishers anticipate in a standardized format for
transmitting license and rights information.

* ONIX for Licensing Format

Brian Green, Executive Director of EDItEUR, will discuss the work of
EDItEUR to develop a prototype XML license expression schema for inclusion
in ONIX messages to transmit rights and licensing information.

* PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies)

The PREMIS Working Group released their Final Report in May. Rebecca
Guenther, Co-chair of the Working Group, will discuss the PREMIS data
dictionary and supporting XML schemas to support the long-term
preservation of digital material.

* Other Standards News

Jenny Walker, co-chair of the NISO Metasearch Initiative, will provide an
update on the initiative's progress.

Pat Harris, Executive Director of NISO, will highlight other important
NISO activities and news.

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