Speakers

Thomas Padilla to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Padilla, Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive, will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 13, at 9:30 am. Internationally recognized for his leadership in promoting responsible stewardship and computational use of memory organization collections as data, Thomas earned his MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has held positions at Michigan State University; the University of California, Santa Barbara (where he served as the UC system’s first humanities data curator), and the University …

Ed Pentz Is NISO’s 2024 Miles Conrad Award Winner

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Ed Pence of Crossref will be the recipient of the 2024 Miles Conrad Award, NISO’s lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community. Ed will receive his award at the awards luncheon taking place during the NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore (12:00 pm ET on February 13), where he will also deliver the 2024 Miles Conrad Lecture. Ed is the founding Executive Director of Crossref, the largest open scholarly infrastructure provider globally. As an active champion of openness in scholarly communication, he has driven or been involved in the founding and …

NISO Plus 2023 Is All About … Metadata!

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 No Comment

Thanks to the enthusiasm of our global planning committee and many of those who submitted session proposals, as well as the participants in the first NISO Plus Forum in September 2022, metadata is THE hot topic at NISO Plus 2023—which is great for NISO, since so much of our work is about developing standardized metadata and/or using it in a standardized way. This year’s conference features an entire track dedicated to the topic, including sessions on metadata in the creative industries, communicating the value of metadata, multi-language metadata — not to mention, Metadata Greatest Hits: Music Through the Ages! There …

Dr Safiya Noble, Miles Conrad Awardee 2023

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble Is Our 2023 Miles Conrad Awardee!

December 23, 2022November 30, 2022 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will be the recipient of the 2023 Miles Conrad Award, NISO’s lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community. She will receive her award at our virtual award ceremony during next year’s NISO Plus conference (from 12.30pm ET on February 15, 2023), where she will also deliver the 2023 Miles Conrad Lecture. Dr. Noble is an internet studies scholar, whose work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, focusing on the ways that digital media intersects …

Dr. David Weinberger, keynote speaker at NISO Plus 2023

NISO Plus 2023 Opening Keynote Is David Weinberger

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Dr. David Weinberger, of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, will give the opening keynote at NISO Plus 2023 — his talk is scheduled for 10.00am Eastern Time on February 14, 2023. Dr. Weinberger is an American author, technologist, and speaker. In his five books and countless posts and articles he has explored the effect of the Internet and AI on knowledge, on how we organize our ideas, on the disruptive architecture of the Web, and on the core concepts by which we think about our world. His latest book, Everyday Chaos: Technology, …

photo of Dr. Caleb Kibet keynote speaker at NISO Plus 2023

Dr. Caleb Kibet Confirmed as Second Keynote Speaker at NISO Plus 2023

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 No Comment

We are delighted to announce the second keynote speaker for NISO Plus 2023 — Dr. Caleb Kibet of Pwani University, Kenya, will deliver his talk on February 16, at 9.30 am Eastern Time/5.30pm Eastern Africa Time. Caleb Kibet is a bioinformatics researcher, a lecturer, an open science advocate, and a mentor. He has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Rhodes University, South Africa. In addition to teaching bioinformatics at Pwani University, Dr. Kibet is a PostDoc at icipe, The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi. As a 2019-20 Mozilla open science fellow, he developed a research data management …

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 …

Taking a Hands-On Approach to Improving Metadata at the NISO Plus Forum

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 1 Comment

With the NISO Plus conference now firmly established as an online, you may be wondering why the new NISO Plus Forum will be held in person (September 20 at the AGU office in Washington, DC). The brief answer is that meeting in person provides an opportunity for a different sort of event, one focused on practical, hands-on work and interactions — and one that we hope will result in some concrete outputs and next steps. Our goal is to bring together stakeholders from across the information community — librarians, publishers, service providers, and others — to identify areas of metadata …

Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan of NLM to Receive NISO’s Miles Conrad Award for 2022

January 31, 2022December 16, 2021 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) will be the recipient of the 2022 Miles Conrad Award, a lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community. As an internationally renowned member of our community, Dr. Brennan will join a long list of industry leaders, innovators, and opinion-makers who have received this prestigious award. She will deliver the Miles Conrad Lecture on February 16 at 12.30pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada), as part of NISO Plus 2022. “Continuing the tradition of recognizing esteemed leaders in our …

Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak in 2018, by Myleen Hollero Photography

And Our FInal Keynote Is … Dariusz Jemielniak!

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 1 Comment

We’re very happy to announce our third and final keynote — Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management and head of the MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University, Poland. Dr. Jemielniak’s work focuses on social data science and collaborative society, open collaboration projects (such as Wikipedia or F/LOSS), strategies of knowledge-intensive organizations, and virtual communities. In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees; in 2019, he was elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences as the youngest member in social sciences and humanities in its history. He is also currently a faculty …