[SigLT-L] Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events - ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics

[Cynthia Hodgson]

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.

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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>
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.

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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
<http://niso.ideascale.com/a/ideafactory.do?id=18685&mode=top&discussionFilt
er=byids&discussionID=48211> '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.

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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>
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
<http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12/>  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.

 

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Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson at niso.org

301-654-2512

 

 

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