Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain

JISC is holding a seminar on standards and the information chain, co-sponsored by ALPSP, the Publishers Association, and CrossRef. Academic users want to discover and get access to relevant publications quickly and easily. Publishers, intermediaries, libraries, and their solutions vendors all develop services to make this happen. This seminar is about how they can use standards more effectively to share data about publications and enable these services.

A Jisc seminar co-sponsored by the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the Publishers Association, and
CrossRef

Jisc is holding a seminar on standards and the information chain,
co-sponsored by ALPSP, the Publishers Association, and
CrossRef. Academic users want to discover and get access to relevant
publications quickly and easily.  Publishers, intermediaries,
libraries, and their solutions vendors all develop services to make this
happen. This seminar is about how they can use standards more
effectively to share data about publications and enable these services.

Using standards is more than a technical issue. The seminar will cover
what key standards are important, why they are important, and what they
enable at the user end of the information chain. It will also cover
new developments and innovative applications.  It will conclude with a
panel discussion on the future and what needs to happen from different
stakeholder perspectives. The aim is to explore how publishers,
intermediaries, libraries, and their solutions vendors can use standards
more effectively and agree any action needed to move things forward.

Jisc has done much work to specify the standards for information
environments at the user end. Jisc has also worked with publishers on
standards through the PALS Metadata and Interoperability Group and by
funding projects to explore the innovative use of key standards. This
seminar is an opportunity for all participants in the information chain to
reflect on where we are, share views, and agree how to move things forward
in a collaborative way.

Publishers, intermediaries, librarians, and solutions vendors are all
invited to attend. There is no charge to attend the seminar, however
an administration fee of £50 will be charged for a no-show.

For further information including the programme and online booking form,
please visit: www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pals-2006