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April 2020

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AnnouncementsNISO Plus repository

Introducing the NISO Plus Repository!

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In the couple of months since NISO Plus 2020, the NISO team has been hard at work setting up an open repository of materials from the conference. We’re delighted to say that, with many thanks to Figshare for their support, the NISO Plus repository is now live! Featuring more than 20 presentations from the conference, and with more content being added as we write, we hope that the NISO Plus repository will be a valuable resource for everyone in the information community — whether you attended the conference or not.  All items have their own DOI, and many also include …

Announcements

NISO Plus — The Videos!

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Thanks to the generosity of NISO Plus Megabyte sponsors, Cadmore Media, we are delighted to announce that our new NISO video portal is now available on their platform.  This means that the following key highlights  from NISO Plus 2020 are now ready for you to view and share: Amy Brand’s opening keynote, The Other I-Word: Infrastructure and the Future of Knowledge danah boyd’s closing keynote, Questioning the Legitimacy of Data James Neal’s Miles Conrad Award lecture and the discussion that followed it between Jim, our Executive Director Todd Carpenter, and former NFAIS Executive Director Deanna Marcum An abbreviated version of …

HistoryIf You Were A Standard, Which One Would You Be?

If You Were A Standard, Which One Would You Be?

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As part of the NISO Plus scholarship application process, we included this optional question: If you were an information standard, which one would you be and why?  (Hint, visit the standards page on the NISO website for inspiration!) To our delight, many of the applicants chose to respond, with a wonderful variety of answers. Amazingly, each of our scholarship winners chose a different standard to represent them — a nice reflection of the group’s diversity! We’re happy to share their answers here (anonymously) in hopes that you’ll enjoy them as much as we and our Scholarship Committee members did. 1)The …