NISO ONIX-PL Webinar: Speaker Roster Finalized

[Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@niso.org>]

The speakers have been finalized for NISO's webinar on ONIX for 
Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL), to be held on September 10, 2008 
from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time).

Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) 
and Chair of NISO's new ONIX-PL working group will begin the 
event by describing the need for ONIX-PL, the benefits it 
provides for various stakeholders, the ongoing maintenance she 
and the NISO working group will be doing with this standard, and 
will provide an overview of the work done to get the trial 
version to this stage.

Jeff Aipperspach, Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions, and 
Rick Burke, Executive Director, Statewide California Electronic 
Library Consortium (SCELC), will give their hands-on perspectives 
of the trial they are conducting with ONIX-PL, a project that 
should provide a model for future ONIX-PL implementations.

SCELC and Serials Solutions are partnering with a number of 
publishers to test the transmission of licensing data using the 
ONIX-PL messages. In this trial, publishers will deliver machine 
readable license information in a standardized way via XML. The 
ONIX-PL transmitted information will then be mapped into Serials 
Solution's ERM system, eliminating the tedious manual entry of 
license terms. The end result will be an improved user interface 
for easily accessing terms.

*Intended Audience:*

This webinar is for librarians, publishers, and content providers 
who are interested in how to express licenses in a 
machine-readable format, load them into electronic resource 
management systems, link them to digital resources, and 
communicate key usage terms to users.

*Information and Registration:*

Please visit the event website 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/onixpl/) for more 
information and to register. The fee is $59 for NISO and ALCTS 
members and $79 for non-members.

This is the third webinar in the series on Demystifying 
Standards. The slides and Q&A from the introductory webinar are 
available online 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/alcts08/) for 
those who wish to review them.

The second webinar, OpenURL: Link Resolution That Users Will Love 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/openurl/), will be 
held August 21, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time); 
registration is open until noon on August 21.

A webinar on SUSHI will be held October 2.

Note: This announcement was cross-posted.

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