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, payment
data transferred via CORE, or usage data retrieved 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
$60. For more information and to register, visit the event website
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datamovement09).

Webinar of Event Highlights

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.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org <mailto:chodgson@niso.org>
Phone: 301-654-2512