From mgranahan at nfais.org Fri Oct 10 13:28:36 2014 From: mgranahan at nfais.org (mgranahan at nfais.org) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:28:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] Improving Discovery and Access: Recommendations from the E-Data Quality Working Group Message-ID: <1412962116.478130324@webmail.emailsrvr.com> ==================================================================== NFAIS Webinar: Improving Discovery and Access: Recommendations from the E-Data Quality Working Group Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EDT) Registration Information: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=446171&orgId=nfais ==================================================================== What's Covered: In a discovery environment, where access and relevance are paramount, problems and gaps in data consistency and delivery are becoming increasingly evident. To ensure libraries and service providers are drawing from the most relevant datasets possible, bibliographic metadata must be complete, accurate, and structurally consistent to be properly and seamlessly ingested into disparate services, such as link resolvers, citation finders, etc. Unfortunately, breakdowns in our current processes and practices often impede the successful discovery of content by the user. The E-Data Quality Working Group?a cross-industry collaboration of academic libraries, publishers, aggregators, and knowledge-based providers?has been addressing these workflow concerns in an effort to improve discovery and access. In this 90-minute webinar, Suzanne Kemperman, director of business development and publisher relations at OCLC, Carlen Ruschoff, director of technical services and strategic initiatives at the University of Maryland, and Noah Levin, metadata manager at Springer, explain the nature of the challenge and share recommendations from the working group to bridge the gaps. You'll learn: The identified source of the problem. How this problem impedes the success of the user in discovering and accessing desired content. Gaps that must be bridged between suppliers of bibliographic and holdings data, and libraries and service providers. The benefits of stakeholders collaborating more closely to resolve issues. Recommendations for improving data quality. Join us on Thursday, October 23, and gain first-hand insight from the E-Data Quality Working Group on ways the information community can improve discovery and access. To register or learn more about this event, go to [ http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=446171&orgId=nfais ]( http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=446171&orgId=nfais ). For individual registrants, the cost of the webinar is $125 for NFAIS members, $150 for allied societies*, and $195 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. REGISTER NOW!! CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Professional Development at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at [ jilloneill at nfais.org ]( mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org ). 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URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Oct 20 08:21:51 2014 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] Registration Closes Tomorrow: Webinar on E-Data Quality White Paper, Oct 23 Message-ID: <1413807711.830611870@webmail.emailsrvr.com> NFAIS members should be aware that registration will be closing at noon on Tuesday, October 21, for the upcoming NFAIS Webinar, Improving Discovery and Access: Recommendations from the E-Data Quality Working Group. I provided some of the context surrounding this working group initiative on the Scholarly Kitchen Blog at: [ http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/14/finding-stuff-discovery-and-data-quality/ ]( http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/14/finding-stuff-discovery-and-data-quality/ ) The webinar on Thursday, October 23, features Noah Levin, Metadata Manager, Springer, Suzanne Kemperman, Director, Business Development, OCLC and Carlen Ruschoff, Director, Technical Services, University of Maryland. These three speakers are representatives of a cross-industry working group and contributors to a white paper, the subject of which is the topic for this 90-minute webinar. The E-Data Quality Working Group?a cross-industry collaboration of academic libraries, publishers, aggregators, and knowledge-based providers?has been addressing these workflow concerns in an effort to improve discovery and access. In this 90-minute webinar, Kemperman, Levin and Ruschoff explain the nature of the challenge, and share recommendations from the working group to bridge the gaps. You?ll learn: The identified source of the problem. How this problem impedes the success of the user in discovering and accessing desired content. Gaps that must be bridged between suppliers of bibliographic and holdings data, and libraries and service providers. The benefits of stakeholders collaborating more closely to resolve issues. Recommendations for improving data quality. The NFAIS webinar is scheduled to run between 11:00am (EDST) and 12:30pm. As always, should you find you have a conflict with that timing, registered participants are granted access to the recording of the event. If you or your staff want to learn more about this critical aspect of discovery in the academic library environment, you?ll want to register now by visiting [ https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=443572&orgId=nfais ]( https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=443572&orgId=nfais ) . Questions or Concerns? Please contact Jill O?Neill, Director, Professional Development at NFAIS: Email: jilloneill at nfais.org or Voice: 443-221-2980 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: