NISO Discovery Tools Forum

[Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@niso.org>]

Early bird discounted registration for the NISO forum, "Next 
Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards," has been 
extended to March 19. Be sure to register by then to take 
advantage of the substantial discounts. NISO members are eligible 
for additional discounts.

This two-day event will take place on March 27-28, 2008 at the 
Friday Center Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. One-day 
regisration is also available.

The forum will focus on the search-driven and network- (or 
browse) driven discovery tools and if standards are keeping pace 
with the next generation of tools. The speakers and topics for 
the forum are:

-- Opening Keynote by Richard Akerman, Technology Architect and 
Information Security Officer, National Research Council of 
Canada, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

-- Robert J. Sandusky, (Richard J. Daley Library, University of 
Illinois at Chicago) on Deep Indexing and Discovery

-- Mike Teets (OCLC) on Identities, xISBN, and xISSN

-- Ralph LeVan (OCLC) on Search Web Services (SWS)

-- Vinod Chachra (VTLS) on Harvesting Data In Multiple Formats 
For Discovery

-- Karen Hawkins (IEEE) on Scitopia

-- Peter Murray (OhioLINK) on Discovery Tools & the OPAC

-- John G. Dove (Credo Reference) on The Future of Reference in 
an Online World

-- Michael Winkler (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) on 
PennTags

-- Eric Schnell (The Ohio State University) and-Dave Munger 
(ResearchBlogging.org) on BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed 
Research Reporting

To register or for more information, visit the event webpage 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/) or 
contact Karen Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at 
kwetzel@niso.org.

/Thank you to our generous sponsors: EBSCO Information Services 
and Ex Libris are major sponsors of the Discovery Tools forum and 
Innovative Interfaces is sponsoring the breaks./

Note: This announcement was cross-posted.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org