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BISG & NISO at ALA Annual Conference 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009
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

Presentations Now Available

Many of the existing standards, workflows and business models for print books need to be reconsidered in an e-book environment. Are you ready?

On July 10, 2009, at the ALA Conference in Chicago, BISG and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) co-hosted their third annual standards forum. This year's program provided a big-picture look at the development and impact of common e-book standards, and a discussion of the pain points that still exist.

The half-day session was segmented to focus on the different stages of creation, distribution, and use of standards for e-books, touching on critical areas of identification, formatting, DRM, and the specific use needs of libraries.

AGENDA:

The Changing Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems
Welcome and Introduction
12:30-12:45	Welcome and Introduction Michael Healy, Executive Director, BISG Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Identify and Describe
12:45-1:05	The New ISTC Agency: An Emerging Standard Andy Weissberg, VP of Identifier Services & Corporate Marketing, Bowker Presentation Slides | Watch the Video A newly approved ISO-standard, the International Standard Text Code (ISTC), provides a means of uniquely and persistently identifying textual works in information systems, and facilitates the exchange of information about these works between every point in the supply chain on an international level. The ISTC makes it possible to group products containing the same content, or even in some cases, different content with the same origins, together, optimizing their discoverability in search engines and improving collections management and sales & loans analysis. In this presentation, Andy Weissberg will describe the business cases associated with ISTC and how the entire book industry can participate and benefit from this emerging industry standard.
1:05-1:30	ISBN and E-Books: The Use of ISBN for Electronic Texts Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR Presentation Slides | Watch the Video After nearly 40 years of enjoying the best established and most effective global standard for product identification, the ISBN community is finding it extremely difficult to reach consensus over applying ISBN to e-books. This presentation will consider the merits of the different positions that are being implemented, and seek to understand the long term implications that a lack of consistency in application might have for the integrity of the ISBN system itself.
Format, Discover and Retrieve
1:30-1:55	Toward a Common E-Book Format Standard: EPUB Michael Smith, Executive Director, International Digital Publishing Forum Presentation Slides | Watch the Video
1:55-2:20	Discovering Online Book Content: BISG's BookDROP Michael Healy, Executive Director, BISG Presentation Slides | Watch the Video Publishers want to make it as easy as possible for e-books to be discovered, browsed and downloaded by their partners - booksellers, libraries and other e-book suppliers. But they also want to maintain control over the quality of their content. To meet these sometimes conflicting demands, BISG and the Association of American Publishers jointly developed BookDROP, a set of standard HTTP transactions that work between a publisher's digital book archive and the websites of booksellers, libraries and other e-book suppliers. In this presentation, BISG's Michael Healy will describe the unique features of BookDROP along with the benefits of straightforward discoverability across the supply chain.
2:20-2:30	BREAK
Purchase and Use
2:30-2:55	E-Book DRM: Between Piracy and Open Access Suzanne Kemperman, Director Publishing Relations, OCLC NetLibrary Presentation Slides | Watch the Video In a world where readers and librarians expect a great deal of content to be freely accessible on the web, most book publishers have embraced online publishing. That said, very few are signing on for unprotected access to their work. In this talk, Suzanne Kemperman from OCLC NetLibrary will discuss the current book industry DRM practices aiming to strike a balance between free information and publisher survival. Why do book publishers use DRM? Why do some embrace Open Access publishing, while others lock down their content even more securely? The answer to broader access may not be a question of "to DRM or not to DRM," but one of business models and technology.
2:55-3:20	Developing E-Book Sales Models John Cox, Managing Director, John Cox Associates, Ltd. Presentation Slides | Watch the Video E-book business models are still evolving. Whether it be the outright purchase of individual titles/collections, subscription-based models or short-term rentals, the range of choices can seem daunting. This presentation will summarize the business model alternatives for each broad e-book category: reference, monographs, textbooks, etc., and identify emerging pointers toward standardization in each.
3:20-3:45	Use of E-books in a Library Context Sue Polanka, Head of Reference and Instruction, Wright State University Presentation Slides | Watch the Video As e-books become more popular in today's library, librarians are discovering challenges in finding the best ways to acquire, catalog, access and read the format. This presentation will describe the e-book standards librarians need in MARC records, cataloging and purchasing to improve the dissemination of e-book data throughout a library's workflow. It will also unpack the necessary "standard" interface features most requested by end users.
3:45-4:00	Q & A

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location:
Hyatt Regency Chicago
Columbus Hall E/F
151 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601

For details email: Angela Bole
Phone: 646-336-7141

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