November 2024

JATS-Con to Be Hosted in Baltimore Prior to NISO Plus 2025

November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 No Comment

Next year’s JATS-Con, the user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2024), will be held as a pre-conference day associated with the annual NISO Plus Baltimore meeting on February 10, 2025 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. This is the first JATS-Con since 2023 and the first to be held in person since 2019. The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe scientific literature published online. First published by NISO in 2012, the standard built on the work of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and was popularized by the NLM’s PubMed Central …

Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 No Comment

NISO is pleased to announce that Cindy Hohl will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2025 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 am ET. Hohl is director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library and the 2024–2025 president of the American Library Association (ALA). She has also served in a number of other leadership roles in the library community. She is past president of the American Indian Library Association and a board member of the ALA-affiliated Freedom to Read Foundation. She also serves on the Standing Committee of the …

Registration for NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore Is Now Open!

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that registration for NISO Plus Baltimore, taking place in person on February 10–12, 2025, at the Marriott Waterfront, is now open! Organized by a committee representing libraries, publishers, vendors, and more from around the world, NISO Plus will emphasize conversation over presentation and offer opportunities throughout for participants to network and address the biggest challenges currently facing the information community, including issues around emerging technologies, open research and open access, metadata, research integrity and ethics, and much more. Presentations or panel discussions will be followed by discussion and Q&A periods in which participants will collaborate …