FW: NISO September Webinar: Return on Investment (ROI) in Linking the Semantic Web

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NISO September Webinar: Return on Investment (ROI) in Linking the Semantic Web

NISO's September webinar on Return on Investment (ROI) in Linking the Semantic Web will be held on September 28, 2011 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time).

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

The much-heralded Semantic Web is enabled by an ability for machines to process webpages and certain data intelligently and perform better tasks on behalf of end users. Material is linked together through machine-readable statements of relationships among ideas, people, events, and places. Linked data examples are beginning to abound in the scholarly information environment, appearing from both publishers and libraries. This webinar will showcase several such examples. Presenters will describe their motivations for investment in such projects and discuss interfaces and other early outcomes.

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Linked Data for Smart Content
Ellen Hays, Principal Researcher, Language Technology, Elsevier Labs

The Smart Content effort now under way at Elsevier aims to create new content from old: extracting information from existing text and combining it with additional data or assets from other sources to provide readers with new ways of understanding the facts and ideas current in their subject areas. Essential to that effort is a move to a linked data infrastructure for content of all kinds, including the semantic models underpinning many of Elsevier's new products. Ellen will discuss in particular Elsevier's Linked Data Repository and how it supports other aspects of this effort.

Linked Data and Libraries
Corey Harper, Metadata Services Librarian, New York University

Overall growth of linked data has been exponential over the past several years; however, libraries have started to participate only quite recently in publishing their bibliographic and authority data as linked data. Mr. Harper will provide an overview of library linked data as well as updates on a few specific linked data initiatives, and will touch on how archives data could also play a part in expanding the linked data universe.

Enabling Persistent Identifiers in an Open Linked Data World
Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef and Interim Director of Technology for ORCID

Mr. Bilder will discuss how the adoption of open linked data conventions can provide a foundation for long-sought-after persistent identifier interoperability.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (defined as access for one computer). NISO and NASIG members may register at a discounted rate. A student discount is also available. Can't make it on the scheduled date or time? Registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year, which can be viewed at your convenience.

To register, please click on the following link: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=925473

For more information, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/semanticweb/




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