As previously announced, NISO is undertaking—with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of assessment metrics for the scholarly community. The first phase of the project is intended to expose areas for potential standardization and collectively prioritize those potential projects.
The first in-person meeting in support of this work will take place on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in San Francisco. The objectives of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing proposed work items.
The event will be livestreamed for those who are interested but can’t attend in person. An agenda is available from the project webpage (http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/) and a link to the live stream will be placed on the agenda page on the day of the event.
Project press release: http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=72efc1097d4caf7b7b5bdf9c54a165818399ec86
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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