James G Neal

NISO Plus — The Videos!

August 5, 2020April 9, 2020 No Comment

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 …

Announcements

Counting Down to #NISOPlus20!

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 No Comment

On February 23, we’ll be welcoming close to 250 attendees to a sold-out inaugural NISO Plus conference in Baltimore, MD — and it promises to be an event to remember! Together with our steering committee of NISO Board members, we’ve put a lot of thought and effort into making NISO Plus a bit different from the average industry conference. From the outset, we wanted the focus to be on engaging with you, our community. So, not only will attendees be hearing from some of the brightest and best in our industry, who will be speaking at the conference, but we …

Program

Announcing the NISO Plus Program!

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 No Comment

Drumroll please… We are delighted to announce the lineup for NISO Plus — and we hope you’ll agree that it’s unmissable! Thanks to the enthusiastic participation of our community, and the generous support of our sponsors, #NISOPlus20 will feature: More than 50 experts from across the information industry, speaking on a wide range of topics, from AI and altmetrics to seamless access and statistics — and so much more! Keynotes by two renowned leaders in our community — Amy Brand (Director, The MIT Press) and danah boyd (Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research and Founder/President, Data & Society) An in-depth video conversation …