The speakers have been finalized for NISO's webinar on ONIX for
Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL), to be held on September 10, 2008 from
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time).

Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and
Chair of NISO's new ONIX-PL working group will begin the event by
describing the need for ONIX-PL, the benefits it provides for various
stakeholders, the ongoing maintenance she and the NISO working group
will be doing with this standard, and will provide an overview of the
work done to get the trial version to this stage.

Jeff Aipperspach, Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions, and Rick
Burke, Executive Director, Statewide California Electronic Library
Consortium (SCELC), will give their hands-on perspectives of the trial
they are conducting with ONIX-PL, a project that should provide a model
for future ONIX-PL implementations.

SCELC and Serials Solutions are partnering with a number of publishers
to test the transmission of licensing data using the ONIX-PL messages.
In this trial, publishers will deliver machine readable license
information in a standardized way via XML. The ONIX-PL transmitted
information will then be mapped into Serials Solution's ERM system,
eliminating the tedious manual entry of license terms. The end result
will be an improved user interface for easily accessing terms.

*Intended Audience:*

This webinar is for librarians, publishers, and content providers who
are interested in how to express licenses in a machine-readable format,
load them into electronic resource management systems, link them to
digital resources, and communicate key usage terms to users.

*Information and Registration:*

Please visit the event website
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/onixpl/) for more
information and to register. The fee is $59 for NISO and ALCTS members
and $79 for non-members.

This is the third webinar in the series on Demystifying Standards. The
slides and Q&A from the introductory webinar are available online
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/alcts08/) for those who
wish to review them.

The second webinar, OpenURL: Link Resolution That Users Will Love
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/openurl/), will be held
August 21, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time); registration is
open until noon on August 21.

A webinar on SUSHI will be held October 2.

Note: This announcement was cross-posted.

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