The Changing Model for Standards Development

United Action for Common Problems
Michael Healy, Executive Director, BISG
biography • presentation
In order to be effective, publishers and librarians need to think collaboratively about standards development. What are the business problems faced by each that can be helped by common solutions?

The Importance of Digital Standards
Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO
biography • presentation
Our community has a long history of facilitating information exchange through standards. The rapid adoption of digital information creation and distribution spotlights the need for digital standards development. What opportunities will be gained through widespread use of digital standards? How can you ensure the completed standards will meet your information needs?

Emerging and Established Standards for Successful Content Management

The availability of multiple formats and delivery options for content is unveiling a variety of new and exciting opportunities for the library community. Without standards to control and manage this content, however, many of the opportunities may be lost. This session will explore six steps to successful content management: identify, describe, discover, retrieve, comply, and use.

1:40-2:30 p.m.

Identify & Describe
As the industry develops ever more digitized content, we see an increasing number of tradable products that require reliable and unambiguous identification. This session will explore the chief characteristics of successful identifiers and metadata (ISBN is only the beginning!). Does digitized content mean that the industry will need more or fewer identifiers? How can identifiers from different sources work together to deal with the complexity and volatility of available sources? How does metadata relate?

Speakers:

• Norman Paskin, Tertius Ltd. and Founding Director, International DOI Foundation
  biography • presentation
• Brian Green, Executive Director, International ISBN Agency and EDItEUR
  biography • presentation

2:30-2:45 p.m.

2:45-3:10 p.m.

Discover & Retrieve
Once content is properly identified and described, there must be a way for consumers to discover and retrieve it. This session will teach you why understanding standards related to online search, browse, and retrieval will be essential not only for exploiting new economic models like e-books or page pay-per-view, but for facilitating the online marketing of physical books as well. The session will also describe current efforts to develop standards in this area .

Carolyn Pittis, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations, HarperCollins
biography • presentation

Comply & Use
The lack of an effective mechanism to communicate access and use permissions has come to be recognized as a major barrier to the broad-based use of digital content. This session will offer two perspectives on how to negotiate the complex mine field of comply and use.

Nathan Robertson, Electronic Resources Librarian,
Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law
biography • presentation
The appropriate use of materials is governed by copyright law and very often by license agreements. Legal and license interpretation is rarely easy to understand, yet libraries need to convey accurate use rights and restrictions to users in easy-to-understand terms. Electronic Resource Management systems and ONIX for Publications License messages can help libraries clarify and simplify rights and restrictions for users.

Mark Bide, Senior Consultant, Rightscom
biography • presentation
The ACAP project is a unique collaboration. Using a cooperative model, it brings a broad range of publishing interests together with search engines and others to work toward an open standard for compliance that meets the requirement for a more effective communication of publishers' policies without compromising the efficiency of high volume data processing. During this session, Mark Bide, Senior Consultant for Rightscom, will explain how.

4:00-4:30 p.m.

Summary and Roundtable Discussion: What now?!?
Panel Discussion

Facilitators: Todd Carpenter, NISO, and Michael Healy, BISG
What will you do now? During this session we will discuss opportunities to take back to your organization and together identify other problems that may benefit from standard solutions. We will also address ways that you can participate in and help shape the standards process.