Free NISO/BISG Information Standards Forum to Precede ALA Conference

[Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@niso.org>]

*Please join us for the second annual NISO/BISG Forum: The 
Changing Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your 
Information Problems.

The forum, a partnership between the National Information 
Standards Organization (NISO) and the Book Industry Study Group, 
Inc. (BISG) will immediately precede the American Library 
Association conference in Anaheim, CA

The half-day event - to be held on Friday, June 27th , from 12:30 
pm - 4:00 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 A/B - 
will provide a big-picture look at the development and impact of 
common solutions-based standards for librarians and publishers. 
Explaining why standards are important for your organization and 
how you can get involved, the program will focus on the 
preparations under way to build standards for tomorrow's digital 
supply chain.

NISO's Managing Director, Todd Carpenter, and BISG's Executive 
Michael Healy, will lead the forum through three main areas of 
standards development:

-- Identify & Describe
-- Discover & Retrieve
-- Comply & Use

To discuss these ever-changing and growing areas of 
standardization will be

-- Brian Green, Executive Director, EDItEUR
-- Annie Callanan, President & CEO, Bowker
-- Tina Feick, Consultant and Co-Chair, NISO I2 (Institutional
Identifiers) Working Group
-- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)

Additional speakers are being confirmed, and topics will include 
identifiers for digital publications, authors, and institutions; 
standards for delivering online book content and knowledge bases; 
and an update on ACAP and ONIX-PL.

For more information on this free forum, visit
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/ala08/nisobisg08/or contact Karen
Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel@niso.org.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512