NISO will be holding an educational forum on Data Movement and Management on March 11, 2009 in Seattle as a pre-ACRL conference program.

 

Modern libraries consist of a variety of complicated data systems, many containing a portion of the data needed to address any specific question. Often data needs to be extracted from one system and moved to or compared with information in another. Frequently, these systems don't communicate well. This in-person conference will explore a number of ongoing data transfer and transformation consensus projects. Whether it is collections or holdings information distributed via ONIX, pricing data via CORE, or usage data via SUSHI, the community is working on strategies and structures to easily transfer data from one system to another. Each of these initiatives will contribute to saving librarians time and eventually money in managing their operations.

 

Confirmed speakers and topics for the program include:

 

-- Opening Keynote: The Landscape of data Movement and Management in Libraries by Tim Jewell (Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication, University of Washington Libraries)

 

-- The Extensible Catalog – Reusing Library Metadata by Jennifer Bowen (Director of Metadata Management, River Campus Libraries)

 

-- CORE: Cost of Reuse Exchange– Combining Cost and Use Data in Libraries by Jeff Aipperspach (Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions)

-- The OAI-ORE Project – What It Is and How People Can Apply It by Michael L. Nelson (Dept of Computer Science, Old Dominion University)

 

The forum will be held at the South Campus Center at the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

Early bird registration, which ends on March 2, is $135 for NISO members and $165 for non-members. After March 2 the rate goes up to $165 for members and $200 for non-members. There is a special student rate of $50. For more information and to register, visit the event website:http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datamovement09.

 

If you can’t come in person, sign up for the webinar on the same topic to be held on March 18th, from 1-2:30 p.m. (EST). The webinar will provide highlights of the in-person event. The webinar registration fee is $79 for NISO and NASIG members and $99 for non-members. There is a separate international rate and a discounted student rate. Visit the webinar event website (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datawebinar09/) for details and to register. Attendees of the Seattle forum will automatically be enrolled in the webinar at no additional cost.