[SigLT-L] NISO Two-Part March Webinar: Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?

[NISO Announce]

*NISO Two-Part March Webinar: Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?*

*Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of
Content*

*Date: *March 11, 2015

*Time: *1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

*Event webpage: *
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/



*Part 2: ** The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery*

*Date: *March 18, 2015

*Time: *1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

*Event webpage:*
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/

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NISO will be holding a two-part webinar on March 11 and 18 to explore
the question, *Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?*

The rise of the Discovery System in the library world has helped to
streamline searching for end users by providing them with
search functionality that more closely resembles search engines like Google
than traditional database searches. But with this streamlined search comes
added expectations from users about their ability to drill down into
content and retrieve more granular pieces of information—anything from book
chapters and individual letters to the editor to specific graphs and images
could conceivably be retrieved in a more granular search.




Users are beginning to expect more granular search and access in Discovery
System searches -- encyclopedia articles, images, tables, book chapters.
The implications for discovery system providers, content providers, and
libraries to realize this vision are significant. These granular "objects"
each have to be retrievable separately from the parent object and each has
to have its own metadata and indexing. What is needed to ensure that
discovery systems can retrieve and display information below the
publication or article level? What is the role of the content provider and
the library in this scenario? How do libraries help end users find and use
this content?



This two-part NISO Webinar for March will examine the many implications of
an increasingly granular discovery environment.

*ABOUT PART 1: **Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks
of Content*

In *Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of
Content*, this webinar will discuss the implications of granular content
for user search interfaces and discovery engines.



Topics and speakers are:

   - *Working with Metadata Challenges to Support Granular Levels of Access
   and Descriptions - **Myung-Ja Han*, Assistant Professor/Metadata
   Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois
   - *How Discovery Services are Meeting Evolving Granular Discovery User
   Needs - **Tito Sierra, *Director of Product Management, EBSCO
   Information Services



*ABOUT PART 2: **The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery*

Part 2 will look at *The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery*, and
presenters will discuss the implications of granular content​ discovery for
the business side of the equation.



Topics and speakers are:

·    *Enabling discoverability into specific segments of multimedia* – *Andrea
Eastman-Mullins, *Chief Operating Officer, Alexander Street Press



·    *The Business side of Making Granular Discovery Work * – *Dan Valen*,
Product Specialist, figshare



*REGISTRATION*

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on March 11 for Part 1 and March 18 for Part 2 (the days of the
webinars). 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:www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance
<http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance>. If you
would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year’s webinars
as part of membership, information on joining is listed here:
www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.)

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the
recorded version for one year. You can register for either or both parts.
There is a 25% discount if registering for both. Visit the event webpages
to register and for more information:
Part 1: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/
Part 2: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/


Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, Maryland 21211

E: jwood at niso.org

P: 301.654.2512

F: 410.685.5278
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