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NISO Discovery Tools Forum Provided Vision and Solutions
Baltimore, MD - March 31, 2008 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) concluded its two-day forum, "Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards," on March 28 in Chapel Hill, NC. Speakers focused on the fact that new sources of scholarly information have engendered the need for effective search-driven and network-driven discovery tools, and looked at the role of standards in the development of those tools.
Richard Akerman offered the opening keynote entitled "Building SkyNet for Science: Discovering New Frontiers Using Embedded Knowledge." Akerman is a Technology Architect at the National Research Council, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC CISTI), Canada's National Science Library and Publisher. He noted that discovery in the digital environment is primarily mediated by machines; unfortunately, the machines don't speak the same language as their creators. A key challenge, therefore, is finding standard ways of ... More »
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