On June 4, NISO will hold a one-day forum on “Metadata in a Digital Age:
New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use” before the opening of the
North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference June 5-8 in
Phoenix, AZ. This session will cover the role that metadata plays in the
lifecycle of content, from publisher to end user, including looking at
the shifting bibliographic supply chain, various needs that metadata
answers, and questions around exchange processes and how different
metadata is used.

NASIG incoming president Jill Emery said, “NASIG welcomes this
opportunity to partner with NISO by bringing their insights and
standards development together with NASIG’s 2008 Annual Conference:
Taking the Sting out of Serials (http://www.nasig.org/conference/2008/).
Our conference this year is focused on finding best practices for
serials management, and NASIG is excited to invite NISO to present a
rich pre-conference program reflecting their commitment to help make all
information management easier and more reliable through standards
application. NASIG hopes that this collaboration will lead to more such
programs in the future.” Emery is Head of Acquisitions at the University
of Texas Libraries.

Speakers at the NISO pre-conference forum include:

-- Kevin Cohn, Director of Client Services, Atypon Systems, Inc.
-- Tiffany Coker, Director, Product Management, ScholarOne, Thomson Reuters
-- Les Hawkins, Serial Record Division, Library of Congress
-- Helen Henderson, Managing Director of Information Power, Ringgold
-- Regina Reynolds, Head, U.S. ISSN Center, National Serials Data
Program, Library of Congress
-- Steven C. Shadle, Serials Access Librarian, University of Washington

Additional presenters are being finalized. Visit the NASIG conference
site (http://www.nasig.org/conference/2008/) for registration, hotel
information, and more.

The NISO Metadata forum is generously sponsored by Swets Information
Services.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org <mailto:chodgson@niso.org>
Phone: 301-654-2512