There’s still time to RSVP (www.surveymonkey.com/s/HJNX95Z) for either in-person or livestream participation in the third NISO Altmetrics Project meeting on Thursday, January 23, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA at The Hub Conference Center, conveniently scheduled just before the 2014 ALA Mid-Winter Conference. For planning purposes, registration for this event will close on Friday, January 17, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. (ET).
There’s space for a couple additional lightning talks. Sign up for one in the RSVP form and share what your organization is doing!
The meeting is FREE for all attendees.
ABOUT THE MEETING
This is the last open meeting for Phase 1 of the NISO project to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to the development and adoption of new assessment metrics (altmetrics) in the community. Such metrics can include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, the project is exploring potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications.
The agenda of the one-day January 23 meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing of proposed work items.
FREE LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE
For those interested in this work, but unable to attend in-person, NISO will be live streaming this event. Credentials for login will be provided closer to the event date; please make sure to designate your attendance as “virtual” in the RSVP form so that we may be sure to communicate that information to you.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about the project or access recordings, documents, and other output from the first two meetings, visit the project webpage (www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/).
This meeting is made possible by the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
301-654-2512