October 2022

Dr. Yuko Harayama Is Confirmed as our NISO Plus 2023 Closing Keynote Speaker

October 28, 2022October 27, 2022 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Yuko Harayama, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, Japan will give the closing keynote at the NISO Plus 2023 conference. Her talk is scheduled for February 16, 9.00pm Eastern Time/ February 17, 11.00am Japan Standard Time. Dr. Harayama has had a long and distinguished career. She is currently the co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Science (JAAS), and also serves as a researcher representative on the ORCID Board (through December 2022). Dr. Harayama holds a Ph.D. in Education Sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the …

NISO Plus 2023 Call for Proposals!

November 7, 2022October 18, 2022 No Comment

What do you see as top priority for the information community right now? What are our biggest challenges and opportunities? How should we be addressing them? And who should be involved? If you have ideas to share, then we warmly invite you to submit a proposal for the NISO Plus 2023 conference, taking place online on February 14-16 2023. It’s the perfect opportunity for you to engage with other individuals and organizations from across the information community — and around the world — on the hot topics that you and your organization care about. What’s more, where appropriate, the ideas …

Show your support for the information community by sponsoring NISO Plus 2023

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 No Comment

NISO Plus 2023 will be our fourth annual conference, and the third to take place fully virtually. From the outset, we’ve been blown away by the generous support from organizations in our community, which have enabled us to keep registration rates affordable for everyone. Last year, we had an amazing 35 sponsors, from across all our main stakeholder groups — libraries, publishers, service and infrastructure providers, and more. Just one week out from launching NISO Plus 2023, 10 organizations have already committed to sponsoring the conference — nine returning sponsors and one first-timer. If your organization wants to join them …

Registration Opens for NISO Plus 2023!

October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that registration is now open for the fourth annual NISO Plus conference (February 14-16, 2023), which will once again take place online, and across two blocks of time — Americas morning/Europe, Middle East & Africa afternoon and Americas evening/Asia Pacific morning — to allow maximum participation from all around the world. Our 2023 Planning Committee is evenly divided between each broad region, and they are already hard at work to help us make sure we have lots of great content across all time zones. NISO Plus 2022 attracted attendees from 27 countries; this year we’re hoping …

Metadata—The Musical! (and Other Ideas from the First NISO Plus Forum)

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 1 Comment

Over 60 people attended the first NISO Plus Forum on September 20, Washington, DC), which was also our first in-person event since the inaugural NISO Plus conference in February 2020—and we certainly made the most of being back together in real life! Facilitator and NISO Board member, Jonathan Clark, led us through a World Cafe-style day of small group discussions on the topic of metadata,—focusing in turn on identifiers, exchange, and structures—in which everyone had a chance to work with everyone else. This generated a LOT of ideas, which were gradually whittled down to around 10 for each theme (see …