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BISG & NISO at ALA Annual Conference 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM

The Changing Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems

An Annual Standards Forum Co-Hosted by NISO

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Building on three years of successful co-programming, BISG and NISO again co-hosted The Changing Standards Landscape on June 25, 2010, directly prior to the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

This year's FREE program focused on standards as they're experienced by readers and other content consumers and featured thought leadership on the critical areas of identification, discovery and format.

When new technology arrives, if is often first applied in recreating old structures and systems. For the few decades of electronic distribution of content, this has held true. The electronic articles and books were produced, distributed, and consumed much as print had been. PDF facsimiles of print pages; packaging of journals and books generally unchanged; and print-based sales models. Although electronic distribution of information is hardly new and many transformations have begun, this process is still in its formative stages. In some ways this is being driven by the end-user and their needs and expectations.

The element of content that a user might need could be an entire book or journal as in the past. However, with new forms of discovery and access, the element of content might only be one chapter in a book, one article in a journal outside their field of interest, or simply one graph or chart contained within an article. As the forms of communication continue to change and adapt to the possibilities of digital distribution, one could envision videos, models, data elements, or visualizations as being the elements of content that end-users want to access and use. In addition, how users want to engage with content in this new environment is changing. Increasingly, simply reviewing the results and conclusions is only part of what readers want to do. They increasingly expect to be able to interact and engage with content. Serving these needs creates many challenges for publishers, distributors and libraries.

This program looked at how the information supply chain is reacting -- and needs to react -- to these changes. Exploring the standards issues related to identification and description, discovery and retrieval, as well as use and measurement, this program provided both publishers and librarians and view of ongoing work and potential new directions in electronic distribution of content.

Agenda:

Focus on the item: Understanding the end-user perspective
Welcome and Introductions
12:30-12:45	Welcome and Introductions Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, BISG Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO
Identify and Describe
12:45-1:05	101 Primer on the Roadmap of Identifiers and the Business Cases for Their Usage Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, BISG Powerpoint Slides The roadmap of identifiers can seem like an extremely confusing array of acronyms of dubious value. But, understanding what identifiers are meant to do may be even easier than understanding their real business value in practical application. This presentation introduced and reviewed the leading identifiers in the book industry, their current stage of development and application, and the principal use cases and business value for each in a practical setting.
1:05-1:25	Identification of E-books -- One Year Later Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR Powerpoint Slides
1:25-1:35	Q and A
Discover and Retrieve
1:35-1:55	Discovery Tools -- Changing the Nature of Collections in an Item-centered World Jane Burke, Senior Vice President, ProQuest and Serials Solutions Powerpoint Slides
1:55-2:15	Ontologies and User Needs in Publishing Jabin White, Director of Strategic Content, Wolters Kluwer Health -- Professional and Education Powerpoint Slides Current digital publishing practices have created a massive amount of both structured and unstructured content. Ever do a Google search that you think is very precise and get 10,000 results? And with some of the latest statistics about how fast we are creating information, the "information overload" phenomenon is only going to get worse. Smart publishers are looking at ways to help users get to the right information at the right time, and ontologies, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies are a critical part of this approach. This session outlined the basics of semantic markup, how publishers are acting on this and the power semantic markup gives publishers in making their content more responsive to user needs.
2:15-2:25	Q and A
2:25-2:55	Coffee Break
Purchase and Use
2:55-3:15	Delivering Digital Content For New Generations of Research: Strategies and Challenges Jeremy York, Assistant Librarian, University of Michigan Library, & Project Librarian, HathiTrust Powerpoint Slides HathiTrust is a partnership of libraries that have pooled resources and expertise to preserve and provide access to an increasingly comprehensive record of published literature in digital form. This talk discussed the approaches HathiTrust is taking (including search services, APIs and support of computational research) to make the millions of volumes in this growing resource available for a wide variety of research pursuits and interests.
3:15-3:35	MESUR: Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources Johan Bollen, Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Center for Complex Networks and System Research, Indiana University Powerpoint Slides
3:35-3:45	Q and A
Closing Remarks
3:45-4:00	Closing Remarks Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, BISG Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO

Location:

American American Library Association Annual Conference
Washington Convention Center, Room 150B
Washington, DC

Program partners:

The Changing Standards Landscape was organized jointly by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Both organizations support, promote and maintain standards and best practices in the information community. NISO focuses on publishers, libraries and the systems suppliers in information distribution. BISG focuses on the book supply chain of publishers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail suppliers.

location:
American Library Association Annual Conference
Washington Convention Center, Room 150B
Washington, DC

For details email: Karen Forster
Phone: 646-336-7141

Website: www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/

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