Invitation to NISO Discovery to Delivery Workshop

["Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>]

NISO invites you to attend a workshop on Discovery to Delivery: 
Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are on November 
2-3, 2006 at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, 
Maryland.

Users are increasingly demanding an integrated process for 
finding, identifying, locating, and retrieving information from 
their desktop. Learn from other librarians, publishers, and 
service providers how to use technology and standards to achieve 
this vision of seamless discovery to delivery. You will hear 
about solutions you can implement to:

* make your content more accessible beyond your traditional user 
base

* integrate or enhance your content with that of other content 
providers

* utilize the latest in search and metasearch techniques

* provide users with choices in delivery of discovered content

* deliver information to users wherever they may be

For more details and to register, visit the workshop webpage: 
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/D2D-06-wkshp.html. 
Space is limited. Register by October 9 and receive the Early 
Bird rate.

The workshop will feature:

.  Robin Murray from Fretwell-Downing Informatics discussing how 
to synthesize, specialize, and Mobilize Library Discovery 
Services.

.  Jane Burke from Serials Solutions on Bridging the Technology 
Gaps in Discovery to Delivery to present the user with an 
integrated and streamlined experience for the entire discovery to 
delivery process.

.  Case studies from Michael Jensen of the National Academies 
Press on a decade's experience at NAP in Promoting Discovery of 
your Materials and Karen Groves from Ex Libris on using the NISO 
Metasearch XML Gateway to Open Your Content to Metasearch 
Services.

.  A panel on Innovations in Discovery to Delivery will feature 
Andrew Pace from North Carolina State University Libraries 
sharing the new features of their revamped library catalog and 
Frank Bilotto of MuseGlobal on new technologies that go beyond 
visualization and clustering.

.  A Solutions Forum led by Todd Miller from WebFeat on Federated 
Search with librarians Mary LaMarca, Dartmouth College, and Nancy 
Pressman-Levy, Princeton University, providing real-world 
examples of implementing customized metasearch solutions.

.  Chuck Koscher from CrossRef on how to Take Discovery to 
Delivery Services to the Users with OpenURL, RSS, and OAI-PMH.

.  A Solutions Forum on The Future of Discovery to Delivery with 
Karen Groves (Ex Libris), Chuck Koscher (CrossRef), and Todd 
Miller (WebFeat) highlighting technology trends that are expected 
in the next 2-3 years.

.  Additional presentations on COinS (ContextObjects in Spans), 
which builds on the OpenURL standard to integrate link resolver 
capability into any web resource, and on Rethinking Resource 
Sharing: how to integrate ILL with web searching.

Downloadable video files of the workshop sessions will be 
available for sale shortly afterward. Workshop attendees will be 
able to purchase the video at reduced rates.

Immediately following the workshop, on November 3 at 1:30 pm, 
NISO will hold its annual meeting. Todd Carpenter, NISO's 
Managing Director, and NISO Board members will discuss NISO's 
strategic direction. The annual meeting is free and attendance is 
open to the public.

For a complete agenda, hotel, and registration information, go to 
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/D2D-06-wkshp.html

Workshop sponsors: CrossRef, Ex Libris, and WebFeat.

Contact Maryann Karinch with questions: maryann@karinch.com, 970-577-8500.


Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512