[Asis-l] Come November please join us for these information-packed NFAIS events.

[Barbara Meyers Ford]

November 7 MyScienceWork—A Global Platform for Researchers, Institutions, and Publishers
During this webinar, CEO & Co-founder Virginie Simon, PhD, and Yann Mahé, Sales and Marketing Director of MyScienceWork, will be joined by two of their partners from the worlds of publishing and institutional repositories, respectively.  This four-person panel will present how Polaris, developed by MSW, serves as a comprehensive digital platform designed for research institutions to archive complete scientific production, automate workflow, analyze/monitor scholarly outputs and make research more visible to key stakeholders.  Don’t miss learning about this latest addition to research sharing.

Go to http://bit.ly/2yUcLGu for details and to register.

November 14 Developing Data-Driven Strategies: Make Your Planning Make Sense
As an information provider, have you taken full advantage of all data resources to maximize your desired outcomes? Join Krista Thom, IEEE,  Jay Holloway, OCLC, and Amy Forrester, University of Tennessee, to hear them describe how their organizations found that exploiting data has the potential to yield better decisions, move you in the right direction, increase productivity, or help to successfully launch a new business model.

Go to http://bit.ly/2q4zDKk for more information and to register.

November 15 Managing Digital Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem
We invite you to attend this 1-day live annual gathering which is sponsored by CENDI, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, NFAIS, and the Research Data Alliance.

The focus for 2017 is Digital Research Objects (DROs), the digital representations of data, publications, software, authors, etc.  DROs need to be characterized in order for them to be discovered and used.  And, in a dynamic digital ecosystem where DROs interact and are modified, value is added with each interaction and modification. The symposium will present how the challenges of characterizing DROs at scale (in volume and over time) are being or might be met.  These might include semantic approaches to assign and map metadata to DROs, as well as characterizing DROs on the basis of their associations with other DROs to provide a "fingerprint" for the DRO and an inferable (rather than assigned) and automatically updated set of "metadata". Presenters from all sectors of the scientific ecosystem will provide insights on common components, emerging standards, and continuing challenges.

Go to http://bit.ly/2yLprfK  for specifics about the program and to register.



Barbara Meyers Ford

Director, Marketing & Communications

NFAIS

bmeyersford at nfais.org