Cynthia:

The link below to the Niso website does not work --

Sorry,

TINA

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From: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@NISO.ORG>

> *Please join us for the second annual NISO/BISG Forum: *�The Changing
> Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems.�
> The forum, a partnership between the National Information Standards
> Organization (NISO) and the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) will
> immediately precede the American Library Association conference in
> Anaheim, CA
>
> The half-day event � to be held on Friday, June 27^th , from 12:30 pm -
> 4:00 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 A/B � will provide a
> big-picture look at the development and impact of common solutions-based
> standards for librarians and publishers. Explaining why standards are
> important for your organization and how you can get involved, the
> program will focus on the preparations under way to build standards for
> tomorrow's digital supply chain.
>
> NISO�s Managing Director, Todd Carpenter, and BISG�s Executive Director,
> Michael Healy, will lead the forum through three main areas of standards
> development:
>
> -- Identify & Describe
> -- Discover & Retrieve
> -- Comply & Use
>
> To discuss these ever-changing and growing areas of standardization will be
>
>
>
> -- Brian Green, Executive Director, EDItEUR
> -- Annie Callanan, President & CEO, Bowker
> -- Tina Feick, Consultant and Co-Chair, NISO I2 (Institutional
> Identifiers) Working Group
> -- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
> Information (CNI)
>
> Additional speakers are being confirmed, and topics will include
> identifiers for digital publications, authors, and institutions;
> standards for delivering online book content and knowledge bases; and an
> update on ACAP and ONIX-PL.
>
> For more information on this free forum, visit
> http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/ala08/nisobisg08/or contact Karen
> Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel@niso.org
> .
>
>
> Cynthia Hodgson
> NISO Technical Editor Consultant
> National Information Standards Organization
> Email: chodgson@niso.org
> Phone: 301-654-2512