niso-l: NISO Annual Meeting and Program

Subject: NISO Annual Meeting and Program
Pat Harris (pharris@niso.org)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:49:09 -0400

NISO Annual Meeting and Program:
Sunday, June 16, 2002 ** 2:00pm-4:00pm
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover Room C/D

NISO's 2002 annual meeting and program will be held on Sunday, June
16th from 2:00 to 4:00 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover Room
C/D. All NISO supporters are invited to attend.

Beverly P. Lynch, Chair of the NISO Board of Directors will conduct
the meeting and will give an update on NISO standards current work
and a view to what's ahead. The program, jointly sponsored with the
ALA/LITA TESLA Committee, will feature four speakers describing
high-profile projects using emerging standards:

… Randy Menakes of epixtech, Inc. will report in NCIP, NISO's
circulation interchange protocol. This standard, to be released for
ballot in late-May 2002, defines the various transactions needed to
support circulation activities among independent library systems such
as patron and item inquiry and update transactions, hold or reserve
functions, check-out, renew, and check-in. It will also support the
circulation of printed and electronic materials and will facilitate
direct patron borrowing, remote patron authentication, on-line
payment, and controlled access to electronic documents.

… Kim Parker from Yale University will describe the OpenURL standard
now in development. OpenURL is a syntax to create web-transportable
packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object.
Such packages are at the core of context-sensitive or open link
technology. By standardizing this syntax, the OpenURL will enable
many other innovative user-specific services.

… METS, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard will be
discussed by Steve Abrams of Harvard University. The METS schema is a
standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural
metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using
the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.

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Beverly P. Lynch, Chair of the NISO Board of Directors will conduct the meeting and will give an update on NISO standards current work and a view to what's ahead. The program, jointly sponsored with the ALA/LITA TESLA Committee, will feature four speakers describing high-profile projects using emerging standards:

… Randy Menakes of epixtech, Inc. will report in NCIP, NISO's circulation interchange protocol. This standard, to be released for ballot in late-May 2002, defines the various transactions needed to support circulation activities among independent library systems such as patron and item inquiry and update transactions, hold or reserve functions, check-out, renew, and check-in. It will also support the circulation of printed and electronic materials and will facilitate direct patron borrowing, remote patron authentication, on-line payment, and controlled access to electronic documents.

… Shibboleth, a project developed under the auspices of Internet2/MACE, will also be discussed. Shibboleth focuses on the safe delivery of reliable authorization data and is based on agreement between information providers and network infrastructure groups on how to exchange authentication, authorization, and demographic information.

… Kim Parker from Yale University will describe the OpenURL standard now in development. OpenURL is a syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such packages are at the core of context-sensitive or open link technology. By standardizing this syntax, the OpenURL will enable many other innovative user-specific services.

… METS, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard will be discussed by Steve Abrams of Harvard University. The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.

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Pat Harris
Executive Director
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
T: 301-654-2512
Mobile: 202-258-3296
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Email: pharris@niso.org
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