From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Mon Nov 4 12:22:12 2013 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:22:12 -0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Announcing RDAP14 workshops! Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A01652BD50EEA4@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Workshop Descriptions for the 2014 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP14) Have Been Announced! Please join us on Friday, March 28th, the final day of RDAP14 (http://www.asis.org/rdap/), for two exciting, hands-on workshops aimed at helping to develop, assess, and improve services for research data. These workshops are a new addition to this year's summit and provide an opportunity to build skills that will help you jumpstart research data efforts at your institution or take your existing program to the next level! See below for workshop descriptions and more information about RDAP14. Building Capabilities for Sustainable Research Data Management Practices Friday, March 28, 8:00am-12:00pm Kevin Crowston & Jian Qin School of Information Studies, Syracuse University As more organizations invest in Research Data Management (RDM), it has become increasingly important for administrators, researchers, and managers to be able to evaluate RDM process for sustainability, efficiency, and effectiveness, which requires a baseline for comparison. The goal of this workshop is to raise the awareness of process management and assessment for RDM and to learn how to apply the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for RDM for the purpose of process assessment. As a tool to increase the reliability of RDM, since 2011 we have been developing a CMM for RDM by gathering evidence from literature and empirical observations and identifying and clustering key RDM practices. The current draft CMM for RDM includes five specific RDM practice areas: 1) Data management in general; 2) Data acquisition, processing and quality assurance; 3) Data description and representation; 4) Data dissemination; and 5) Repository services and preservation. The CMM for RDM framework will provide guidelines that are much needed in data policy making, personnel training, and performance assessment. Learning to Teach, Teach for Learning: Instructional Practices for Data Services Friday, March 28, 1:00pm-5:00pm Lisa Hinchliffe University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Data services specialists are increasingly called upon to provide instructional sessions for users and colleagues. This workshop provides pragmatic approaches to developing and delivering instruction using proven and efficient strategies. The workshop will particularly draw on Understanding by Design, the Experiential Learning Cycle, and Classroom Assessment Techniques frameworks. Clarify learning outcomes, implement engaging teaching techniques, and document evidence of your learners learning! Register for Workshops Here: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP14/rdap14regform.php RDAP14 Important Dates November 25, 2013 Panel Presentations Submissions Due December 16, 2013 Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks Submissions Due February 14, 2014 Early Bird Registration Ends March 26-28, 2014 RDAP14 Conference and Workshops View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits' programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. Keep up with RDAP news by joining our Listserv, following us on Twitter or visiting our Facebook page. For questions, contact rdapinfo at asis.org. We look forward to hearing from you! Best, Andrew Johnson RDAP14 Program Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at lis.upatras.gr Wed Nov 6 04:24:38 2013 From: john at lis.upatras.gr (Tsakonas Giannis) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:24:38 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] =?utf-8?q?APARSEN_Training_Event_=E2=80=93_Sustainabili?= =?utf-8?q?ty=3A_Securing_the_Value_of_Digital_Data_Assets?= Message-ID: <3e65dfe1d317653ad15f13e9fa37fb0c@upatras.gr> - apologies for cross-postings - APARSEN TRAINING EVENT ? SUSTAINABILITY: SECURING THE VALUE OF DIGITAL DATA ASSETS The Hague, 10th-11th December 2013 The APARSEN project is delighted to announce that registration has opened for our latest training event, organised by DANS and focusing on issues relating to sustainability and digital preservation. Society is generating a vast amount of digitally encoded information, upon which it depends. Some of this will be needed for a long time. Those who have responsibility for preservation may well have asked themselves the following: * How can I justify the resources needed for digital preservation? * How long must the resources be committed? * How can I estimate the resources needed and how can I keep these to a minimum? * How can I plan to cope as the volume increases over time? The APARSEN project has been working to collect, evaluate and develop key answers to these questions. This two day training event, from the APARSEN project, will focus on the topic of ?Sustainability? in relation to the preservation of digital objects and will present some of these answers. The training aims at presenting state of the art developments in relation to four key sustainable preservation practices. These are: * The infrastructural dimension through the analysis of suitable?STORAGE?solutions that help enable reliable permanent access * The operational dimension through the identification, evaluation and proposal of competitive Digital Preservation SERVICES * The monitoring and performance management of DP activities through COST MODELS and their components * The underlying business dimension of digital preservation sustainability by means of modern management approaches and instruments such as value propositions, BUSINESS CASES and business modelling The training will be offered as a mix of expert presentations, group exercises and discussion. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN VIA THE APARSEN WEBSITE AT A COST OF ?50 FOR BOTH DAYS: http://bit.ly/1aCaME3 [1] This training event is generously subsidised through the APARSEN project by the European Community?s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development FP7/2007-2013 ? ICT-2009.4.1: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation (grant agreement No 269977). From chodgson at niso.org Tue Nov 12 16:17:13 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:17:13 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] REMINDER: Deadline for comments on NISO Draft Recommended Practice on Indexed Discovery Services is Monday, November 18 Message-ID: <012c01cedfec$8fed90f0$afc8b2d0$@org> Reminder: The deadline to submit comments on the NISO draft recommended practice Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery is November 18, 2013. This draft recommended practice provides specific guidelines for content providers on metadata elements, linking, and technical formats, and for discovery service providers on content listings, linking, file formats, methods of transfer, and usage statistics. The document also provides background information on the evolution of discovery and delivery technology and a standard set of terminology and definitions for this technology area. It was developed by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Working Group to facilitate increased transparency in the content coverage of index-based discovery services and to recommend consistent methods of content exchange. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit the Open Discovery Initiative webpage at: www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chodgson at niso.org Tue Nov 12 16:23:09 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:23:09 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] New speakers added for NISO Virtual Conference: Web-Scale Discovery Services: Transforming Access to Library Resources Message-ID: <013101cedfed$63995740$2acc05c0$@org> The agenda for the NISO Virtual Conference: Web-Scale Discovery Services: Transforming Access to Library Resources has been updated and finalized with several new speakers. Date: November 20, 2013 Time: 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/virtual/discovery ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE NISO's third virtual conference, Web-Scale Discovery Services: Transforming Access to Library Resources, will touch on the potential of discovery services, how to select a product, as well as the issues and challenges involved. TOPICS AND SPEAKERS . Keynote: Library Discovery: Past, Present and Some Futures - Lorcan Dempsey, Chief Strategist at OCLC and Vice President, OCLC Research . Selecting a Web-scale Discovery Service: Evaluating the Options - Amy Hoseth, Coordinator for Onsite Services, Colorado State University Libraries . Why Web-scale Discovery Means the End of Build vs. Buy - Cody Hanson, Acting Director, Web Development, University of Minnesota University Libraries . Implementation: Delivering the Goods - Michael Kucsak, Director of Library Systems and Technology, University of North Florida . Zen and the Art of Discovery Maintenance - Athena Hoeppner, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries . The Library with a Thousand Databases: Web Scale Discovery and The Hero's Journey - Matthew Reidsma, Web Services Librarian, Grand Valley State University Libraries . Update on the NISO Open Discovery Initiative - Marshall Breeding, Independent Consultant and co-chair, NISO Open Discovery Initiative . Conference Roundtable with all the speakers REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on November 19, 2013 (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/virtual/discovery Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Fri Nov 15 11:26:12 2013 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:26:12 -0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Reminder: RDAP14 CFP and Registration Open Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A01652BE634EC4@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> REMINDER: RDAP14 Call for Proposals and Registration Open Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 March 26-28, 2014 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA RDAP14, the fifth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, is accepting proposals (max. 300 words) for two panels, interactive posters, and lightning talks. Themes for RDAP14 were selected by this year's planning committee with input from previous years' attendees and RDAP community members. Important Dates November 25, 2013: Panel Presentations Submissions Due December 16, 2013: Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks Submissions Due February 14, 2014: Early Bird Registration Ends March 26-28, 2014: RDAP14 Conference and Workshops Panel Presentations We are seeking panelists for the following topics: * Developing and implementing institutional policies for research data: ownership, preservation, and compliance. This panel will discuss approaches institutions have taken to develop and implement policies for a variety of issues related to research data, including ownership, copyright, commercialization, privacy, embargoes, access controls, sharing, reuse, and preservation. * Building data curation/management services on a shoestring budget. This panel will discuss how to quickly start up data curation/management services with limited resources from the perspective of institutions that have recently done so in response to funding agency policies and/or other external factors. Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks We are soliciting posters and lightning talks on any of the following themes: * Institutional policies for research data * Building/expanding research data services * Collaboration or tension between units involved with research data * Institutional responses to government policies/guidelines concerning research data * Systems/strategies for full-lifecycle research data curation * Tools developed and/or used for data curation/management * Digital preservation * Data citation and reuse * Data repositories (institutional/disciplinary/other) * Education and training for research data management/curation Submit your 300 word (maximum) summary or abstract, along with any supplementary documentation, for Panel Presentations by November 25, 2013. Submissions for Interactive Posters and (Seven Minute) Lightning Talks are due December 16, 2013. Submit your proposals for RDAP14 here: http://www.softconf.com/asis/rdap-14/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit In addition to the topics covered in the call, the RDAP14 program will include keynote speakers, hands-on workshops, and curated panels on: * Inter-unit collaboration and tension around research data services * Responses to the OSTP public access memo * NSF DataNet project updates More details on the program coming soon! View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits' programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. Keep up with RDAP news by joining our Listserv, following us on Twitter or visiting our Facebook page. For questions, contact rdapinfo at asis.org. We look forward to hearing from you! ---------------------------------- Andrew Johnson RDAP14 Program Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Nov 15 13:14:17 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (rhill at asis.org) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:14:17 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] [Pasig-announce] Resend with URL - November 21 PASIG Webinar: The Essential Elements Of Intelligently Managed Tiered Storage Infrastructures In-Reply-To: <5282F52A.9090504@oracle.com> References: <5282F52A.9090504@oracle.com> Message-ID: <9E4CA9ECB58F438CAAF7D3C24BC68354@asist.local> The next PASIG webinar will be given by Raymond Clarke, one of the founding PASIG committee members. Ray has consistently been one of the top-rated PASIG presenters on tiered storage and related storage standards. Now as an independent consultant, Ray will be offering deep, practical advice from his years of experience developing architectures for tiered storage for preservation. PASIG Webinar: The Essential Elements Of Intelligently Managed Tiered Storage Infrastructures Webinar Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 11:30am-12:30pm (EST) http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-11-21-2013-register.h tml Various concepts and applications of tiered storage have been employed for over 20 years. First in the mainframe space and later in the open system space. During the past 20 years, the prevalence of the open systems enterprises have grown along with the explosive growth of unstructured data, with requirements for that data to be preserved, in many cases indefinitely, yet remain readily accessible. The tiered storage model provides benefits of lower overall cost, lower energy, and lower floor space requirements. However, maximum environmental impact and ROI will now be achieved through expanded use of cloud technologies and intelligent tiered storage management. This talk will focus on the essential elements of successful intelligent tiered storage management, in the context of long-term digital information retention and preservation. Presenter Biography Raymond A. Clarke is a lecturer and consultant with expertise spanning twenty-five+ years in storage management, performance, capacity planning and architecting storage infrastructure solutions. Ray helped develop the Storage Network Industry (SNIA) Data Management Forum and served on the forum's board of directors at its inception. Ray held several positions focused on technical storage solutions and long-term digital information archive and preservation solutions development with Sun Microsystems over a 15 year period. Most recently, Ray contributed to Oracle's Hardware and Engineered Systems Infrastructure Team, within the Enterprise Solutions Group as a Senior Enterprise Storage Solutions Consultant, with a focus on both field sales enablement and support and technical training. 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The 'In Brief' column presents four short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features The Portal to Texas History, a fascinating array of rare and invaluable items that document Texas's history created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. The articles include: Growing Institutional Support for Data Citation: Results of a Partnership Between Griffith University and the Australian National Data Service By Natasha Simons, Griffith University, Brisbane, Karen Visser, Australian National Data Service and Samantha Searle, Griffith University, Brisbane A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in the Archives By Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project By Sonoe Nakasone, District of Columbia Public Library System and Carolyn Sheffield, Smithsonian Institution Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo By Joachim Schoepfel, Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3 and Maebena Soukouya, University Library of Kara, Togo Schema for the Integration of Web Applications By Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands 2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding By Paul Vierkant, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin The conference reports are: Building Global Partnerships ? Second Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance By Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute An Overview of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) By Vittore Casarosa, Institute for Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy and Ana Pervan, Intern at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Meyrin, Switzerland D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November/December 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From chodgson at niso.org Wed Nov 20 13:47:26 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:47:26 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events - ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics Message-ID: <010501cee620$f71b8180$e5528480$@org> Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events - ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics NISO will be holding free virtual events related to three projects underway. Please be sure to RSVP (as noted for each) if you plan to participate so that you will be sent the login and access information. All three events will be recorded, with the recording posted on the NISO website, but we encourage your live participation. _____ Event: ResourceSync Standard Training Webinar Date: December 3, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/ RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/resourcesync-webinar About the Event The ResourceSync Framework Specification (NISO Z39.99-201x) is in the final stages of editing and approval to become an American National standard. It describes a synchronization framework for the web consisting of various capabilities that allow third party systems to remain synchronized with a server's evolving resources. The capabilities can be combined in a modular manner to meet local or community requirements. This specification also describes how a server can advertise the synchronization capabilities it supports and how third party systems can discover this information. The specification repurposes the document formats defined by the Sitemap protocol and introduces extensions for them. In this webinar, ResourceSync core team members Bernhard Haslhofer and Simeon Warner will review the standard and provide practical examples and scenarios for its application. There will be time allotted for a Q&A discussion. ResourceSync is a joint NISO and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) project that is partially funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. _____ Event: NISO Bibliographic Development Roadmap Project Discussion Webinar Date: December 5, 2013 Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/ RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FH2V23B About the Event NISO is developing a community roadmap that will help support movement toward a future bibliographic information exchange ecosystem. A two-day in-person meeting was held on April 15-16 to kick off the project with input from experts around the world about needed areas of focus, research, and standards development to effectively transform how bibliographic data is created, exchanged, and managed in the linked web world. The input from this meeting-some 40 project ideas in 15 categories--has been compiled at NISO 's IdeaScale Input Forum. (Community members are encouraged to visit the forum and "vote" on the ideas.) Obviously, in an environment of limited resources, not every one of these projects can be acted upon or pursued. This next phase of the project will be to collectively prioritize these potential activity streams. The December webinar will focus on this prioritization and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and give feedback on the ideas. This feedback will be used to shape the recommendations in the final Bibliographic Roadmap report. The NISO Bibliographic Roadmap project is funded with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. _____ Event: NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project Second In-person Meeting and Livestream Date: December 11, 2013 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/ RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HCX8BGY About the Event NISO is undertaking a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. The first phase of the project involves several in-person meetings (which are also livestreamed) to identify and prioritize potential standardization projects. In the second phase, the prioritized and approved standards/best practices will be developed by appointed working groups of volunteers. This event is the second in-person meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC. (There are still a few slots for in-person attendees, available on a first come-first serve basis.) The event will be livestreamed to interested virtual attendees who will also have opportunities to participate directly. The agenda of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing of proposed work items. This project is funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. _____ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chodgson at niso.org Thu Nov 21 14:00:09 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:00:09 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] NISO December Webinar: Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality Message-ID: <008201cee6eb$e830d320$b8927960$@org> Webinar: Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality Date: December 11, 2013 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/webinars/linked_data ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR The library and cultural institution communities have generally accepted the vision of moving to a Linked Data environment that will align and integrate their resources with those of the greater Semantic Web. But moving from vision to implementation is not easy or well-understood. A number of institutions have begun the needed infrastructure and tools development with pilot projects to provide structured data in support of discovery and navigation services for their collections and resources. Join NISO for our December 11 webinar where speakers will highlight actual Linked Data projects within their institutions-from envisioning the model to implementation and lessons learned-and present their thoughts on how linked data benefits research, scholarly communications, and publishing. TOPICS & SPEAKERS . Historypin: A Global Community Collaborating around History - Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director, We Are What We Do . The Linked Jazz Project: Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community - Matt Miller, Front End Developer, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library . Linked Data Demystified: The UNLV Linked Data Project - Cory Lampert, Head, Digital Collections, and Silvia Southwick, Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV University Libraries REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on December 11, 2013 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance ). All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. 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As library authority files have become available online, the authority data has become accessible--and many have been published as Linked Open Data (LOD)--but names in one library authority file typically had no link to corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files. The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files today. The service harvests some 30 million authority records, enhances them with information from 100 million bibliographic records to produce a file of 20+ million clusters, each representing a person, organization, jurisdiction, work, or expression. In addition to supporting a Web browser HTML interface, the API to VIAF supports content negotiation for other views, such as RDF-XML and MARC-21.With English, French, German, Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around the world, with over a million queries per day. The NISO/DCMI webinar, Cooperative Authority Control, will cover some of the challenges VIAF meets in dealing with many different formats and approaches to describing identities, the relationship of VIAF to the source authority files, to other identity systems such as ORCID and ISNI, VIAF's approach to sustainability, governance and persistence, and how ambiguity is recognized and managed. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Thomas Hickey (http://www.oclc.org/research/people/hickeyt.html?urlm=160998) is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems, authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities, and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. REGISTRATION: Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (16:00 UTC) on December 4, 2013 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. 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