Invitational Roundtable on Digital Identifiers
NISO will be convening an invitational Roundtable on Digital Identifiers on March 13-14, 2006, to identify issues and potential standards needs. The pre-standards workshop to be held at the Lister Hill Center at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, will be a small working meeting of invited experts representing multiple disciplinary, geographical, and cultural points-of-view.
A keynote presentation by Stuart Weibel (OCLC) will be followed by four expert panels:
1) Needs and Requirements - What Makes A Good Identifier?
2) IDs as Embedded in Working Systems
3) The Services & Technical Infrastructure Associated with Digital Identifiers
4) What Have We Learned?
Each panel session will be concluded with facilitated group-work sessions intended to produce recommendations for NISO's future activities related to the panel topic. Confirmed speakers include: Ron Daniel (Taxonomy Strategies LLC), Ted Koppel (Ex Libris), John Kunze (California Digital Library), Clifford Lynch (CNI), Juha Hakala (Helsinki University Library), R.P.C. Rodgers (NLM, NISO SDC), and Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory).
NISO members with active interests in this area are welcome to nominate attendees by contacting Rick Rodgers (email: rodgers@nlm.nih.gov).
The Roundtable on Digital Identifiers planning committee members are: Karen Coyle (NISO), Emily Fayen (MuseGlobal), Juha Hakala (Helsinki University Library), Ted Koppel (Ex Libris), John Kunze (California Digital Library), Clifford Lynch (Executive Directory), Peter Noerr (MuseGlobal), R.P.C. Rodgers (NLM, chair), Pat Stevens (NISO), and Jenny Walker (Ex Libris).