The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that it will offer 14 webinars, three forums, 10 teleconferences, and a series of four joint webinars with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) in 2012. Webinar programme topics cover a wide variety of standards and technology areas of interest to the library, publishing, and scholarly information communities including: metadata, e-books, linked data, usage statistics, discovery innovations, metrics for scholarship, e-resource platforms, and library cloud implementations.
For the third year, NISO and the DCMI will hold a series of joint webinars, with 2012's focus on various aspects of linked data including library cataloguing metadata, webpage microdata, scientific research data, and RDFa. NISO's in-person forums will address managing and citing research data and the e-book renaissance, in addition to the 6th annual joint forum with the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) on The Changing Standards Landscape, held in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Rounding out the 2012 programme are free open teleconferences providing updates on NISO standards development and offering the community an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback.
Package deals are available for multiple event registrants. Subscribers to the entire NISO webinar series get 14 for the price of seven and registrants for four webinars can attend three more for free. For the joint NISO/DCMI webinars, a subscription to all four is available for a 25 percent discount-equal to one free webinar. NISO members and students get discounted rates to all the educational events. DCMI members can attend the joint webinars at NISO member rates.
The complete listing of 2012 programmes with descriptions and registration information is available on the NISO website at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012.
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