From niso-announce at niso.org Fri Jan 9 13:53:23 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:53:23 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO January 14Webinar: Net Neutrality: Will Library Resources Be Stuck in the Slow Lane? Message-ID: <004301d02c3d$8d376770$a7a63650$@org> NISO January 14Webinar: Net Neutrality: Will Library Resources Be Stuck in the Slow Lane? Date: January 14, 2015 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/ ABOUT THE WEBINAR Net Neutrality is an issue that has been increasingly in the news, but it is something that has affected libraries for a lot longer. Many public libraries are in underserved communities where patrons may not have personal access to the internet, so the use of the public libraries' resources is critical for them. Without net neutrality, those public libraries may not be able to cost-effectively provide such Internet service. For the scholarly and academic communities, scholarly resources could be resigned to the slow lane of the net, if content providers and libraries don't have the resources to pay for the "fast lane." As resources increasingly go multimedia, requiring greater bandwidth, will libraries and content platform providers be saddled with taking on added costs to ensure reliable access? In this webinar, presenters will help define Net Neutrality, what could happen without it, and how it can impact public and academic libraries, and the wider information community. Topics and speakers are: * Network Neutrality Principles and Policy for Libraries & Higher Education - Larra Clark, Deputy Director, Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association * Network Neutrality: The Public Library Perspective - Holly Carroll, Executive Director, Poudre River Public Library District * Academic Libraries and Net Neutrality - Jonathan Miller, Library Director, Olin Library of Rollins College REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on January 14, 2015 (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 . 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: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts 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/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/ Be sure to check out NISO's discounted subscription packages for webinars (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/#packages) and virtual conferences (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for 2015. New in 2015: NISO Training Thursdays. Three technical webinar training sessions directly related to the previous weeks' virtual conference. Registrants to the related virtual conference receive a free login to the Training Thursday. You can also register separately for just the training session. More information is available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/training_Thursdays/ 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 niso-announce at niso.org Thu Jan 15 11:26:17 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:26:17 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Metadata Indicators for Accessibility and Licensing of E-Content Message-ID: <001501d030df$fdfeaa30$f9fbfe90$@org> NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Metadata Indicators for Accessibility and Licensing of E-Content The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Access License and Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) that defines metadata to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content. Developed by the NISO Working Group on Access License and Indicators (formerly Open Access Metadata and Indicators), the recommended practice proposes the adoption of two core pieces of metadata and associated tags: and . The first tag would indicate that the work is freely accessible during the specified timeframe (if applicable). The second tag would contain a reference to a URI that carries the license terms specifying how a work may be used. "Publishers provide articles that are "free to read" under a wide range of re-use terms and licenses," explains Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, PLOS, and Co-chair of the NISO Access License and Indicators Working Group. "Currently, publishers of hybrid journals have no simple mechanism for signaling the "free to read" status of specific articles or the re-use rights of downstream users. Funders find the lack of information and cooperation between stakeholders creates difficulty in determining whether a specific published article is compliant with their policies. Authors have difficulty confirming whether they are compliant with a given funder policy. Readers face the burden of figuring out what they can and cannot do with specific articles. Aggregators and platform or knowledgebase providers have no consistent mechanism for machine-processing metadata and identifying the accessibility or rights status. Adoption of and metadata designations will allow both humans and machines to assess the status of content." "The combination of the two metadata tags can particularly be useful in indicating the subtle nuances of different Open Access content," states Greg Tananbaum, Consultant at SPARC and Co-chair of the NISO Access License and Indicators Working Group. "The indicators include a date component so that content with access and re-use rights that change over time can be adequately understood. This supports the existing embargo practices in use by some publishers. By including URIs to applicable licenses in the metadata, more detailed explanations of rights can be made available." "The recommended metadata tags can easily be incorporated into existing metadata distribution channels, encoded in XML, and added to existing schemas and workflows," said Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef, and Co-chair of the NISO Access License and Indicators Working Group. "Publishers and platform providers can also use the tag to automate the display of appropriate status icons to users and for signaling or determining compliance with most funder and institutional policies." "Adoption of these two metadata indicators can have a significant positive impact on all the participants in the scholarly communications chain," stated Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "This NISO Recommended Practice also complements a number of other related efforts, including the CrossRef FundRef service; the HowOpen Is It? guide developed by PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA; EDItEUR's ONIX-PL specification for communicating licensing term; and the Linked Content Coalition initiative ." Access and License Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) is available for free download from the ALI Working Group webpage on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/ali/. 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 niso-announce at niso.org Wed Jan 21 11:13:58 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:13:58 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO February 11 Webinar: Authority Control: Are You Who We Say You Are? Message-ID: *NISO February 11 Webinar: **Authority Control: Are You Who We Say You Are?* *Date:* February 11, 2015 *Time:* 1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time *Event webpage:* http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/authority_control/ *ABOUT THE WEBINAR* In the world of authority control, it is a bit of an alphabet soup of acronyms. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), which is a system to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors; ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier), which identifies the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programs, and newspaper articles; and VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) a system that combines multiple name authority files into a single authority service, hosted by OCLC, all have their place when discussing identifiers for authority control. Identity issues and disambiguating authors, researchers, other content creators, and their institutional affiliations are crucial as we move into a world of linked data. In this webinar, presenters will cover the implications and differences between ORCID, ISNI, and VIAF, what is the proper use of each, and some of the benefits that come with using authority files and making that information available on the Web. Topics and speakers are: - *ORCID* ? *Simeon Warner, Director of Repository Development, Cornell University Library* - *ISNI* ? *Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker* - *VIAF* ? *Thomas Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC* *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 11, 2015 (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. 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: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts 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/2015/webinars/authority_control/ Be sure to check out NISO?s discounted subscription packages for webinars ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/#packages) and virtual conferences ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription) for 2015. *New in 2015: NISO Training Thursdays*. Three technical webinar training sessions directly related to the previous weeks? virtual conference. Registrants to the related virtual conference receive a free login to the Training Thursday. You can also register separately for just the training session. More information is available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/training_Thursdays/ # # # 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ecorrado at ecorrado.us Wed Jan 28 13:43:06 2015 From: ecorrado at ecorrado.us (Edward M. Corrado) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:43:06 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] Digital Initiatives Librarian Message-ID: The following position is available at Binghamton University. A full job description with more details and requirements is available at the link below. One of the duties this person will have is working with our digital preservation system (Rosetta). Incidentally we also have an opening for a Fine Arts Librarian as well. Details can also be found at the link below. Applications will be reviewed startling the beginning of March for both positions. Please free to share with anyone who you think might be interested... Edward Digital Initiatives Librarian Binghamton University Libraries, Binghamton, New York, are currently accepting applications for a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Binghamton University is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is located in upstate New York. This tenure-track library faculty position will collaborate in the planning, implementation and monitoring of digital projects including digital curation, preservation and digital exhibits. Required Qualifications include an ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent and knowledge of and experience with current trends in digital preservation, experience developing web applications, and strong UNIX or Linux skills. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Applications Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. For full qualifications, application instructions, and additional information, visit our website at: http://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/about/employment/faculty.html Binghamton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.