NISO Webinar: Getting to the Right Content: Link Resolvers and Knowledgebases

Date: May 14, 2014

Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/resolvers/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.

This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives, such as GOKb, launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

·         KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery – Christine Stohn, Product Manager, Ex Libris

·         Building the Global Open Knowledgebase – Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries

·         What We Learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative – Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on May 14, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance. If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year’s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. 

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/resolvers/

 Cynthia Hodgson, NISO, niso-announce@niso.org