Webinar Building Data Science Skills: Strategic Support for the Work, Part Two March 18, 2020 01:00pm
The Persistence of Infrastructure Todd Carpenter's monthly letter focuses on work with identifiers and the need for infrastructure support across the information community. Read More
Inviting Comment on Revised Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice Comment before March 9 on the draft revision from the ODI Working Group. Consensus is key to the success of community practice. Read More
Tech Trends: Small Steps but Significant Change Todd Carpenter offers his view of how technology shaped our society over the past decade. This is Part One of a two-part feature. Read More
Library Associations Join Forces to Enhance Data Practices COSLA Announcement released on February 7 outlines Measures that Matter initiative on behalf of public libraries Read More
Silverchair, Cadmore Media Launch Enhanced Video Site for Platform Strategies 2020 One key service is the addition of transcription from materials featured at the well-respected Platform Strategies event. Read More
NISO Announces Spring Training Series on Product Management 2020 Series Will Begin in March; you'll want to take advantage of the early bird registration rates! Read More
Interview with Thomas Padilla This month's interview is with Thomas Padilla, author of the OCLC-commissioned report, Responsible Operations. Read More
Open Teleconference On MECA: Recording Available NISO's Nettie Lagace engaged with three members of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) Working Group. Read More
Principles? Principles? Who needs Principles? This is A PID Party! What do you know about persistent identifiers and ISO's principles of identification? Here's an easy way to get up to speed! Read More
Privacy Issues in Focus at LITA, ALA Midwinter 2020 How do we balance privacy norms with the convenience of emerging technology? Information professionals wrestle with the issue. Read More
SURVEY: EPUB and Future Direction of Publishing on the Web Your feedback is invited in this survey from the W3C's Publishing Working Group, the EPUB 3 Community Group, and the Publishing Business Group. Read More
Read up on the NIST Privacy Framework 1.0 The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published their initial revision of a privacy framework. Read More
Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning and AI in Libraries An OCLC-Commissioned report looks at the introduction of these technologies from a holistic standpoint. Read More
Ebooks and Embargoes In Eleven Links Imposing a time frame for gaining access to content (based on format) is not unusual. At ALA, Macmillan and libraries faced off. Read More
New and Emerging Specs and Standards (February 2020) Catch up with emerging standards pertaining to ebook preservation, metadata, and accessibility evaluation. Read More
PIDapalooza -- Not Your Average Information Event How much fun can an event on persistent identifiers really be? When NISO is involved, there are noisemakers, pub quizzes and a lot of laughter. Read More
NISO Plus Scholarship Winners Announced Through the generosity of the Sloan Foundation, NISO Plus 2020 is supporting the conference participation of twelve industry professionals! Find out who they are. Read More
NISO Professional Development Events, February and March 2020 There's a lot coming up in the next two months! Cybersecurity, research data management, data science skills and more! Read More
