2013 SSP 35th Annual Meeting
Seminar 03 – Update on Emerging Standards, Guidelines, and Recommendations…
Pre-Meeting Seminar
Seminar 03 – Update on Emerging Standards, Guidelines, and Recommendations What You Need to Know Now
(Organizers: Helen Atkins, Marian Hollingsworth)
Moderator: Margie Hlava, Access Innovations
This seminar presents a series of focused presentations highlighting current progress on KBART II and DDA of Monographs, RDA, ePUB3, JATS, OA Metadata & Indicators, and Supplemental Data. Come and hear industry experts explain how these topics will impact your business and how you can prepare.
Speakers
Evan Owens, AIP Publishing LLC
Evan Owens has been involved in publishing technologies since early 90s, including serving as US technical representative for ISO 12083, on the NLM DTD advisory panel, and NISO JATS. He has served on the NISO Architecture Committee, the CrossRef technical working group, the CrossRef board of directors, and the British Library external technical advisory panel. He began his career in publishing at The University of Chicago Press where he led the transition from paper-based to SGML-based electronic publishing. In 2003 he became CTO of Portico (a unit of ITHAKA), where he led the design and implementation of a pioneering digital preservation archive. In 2010 he joined the American Institute of Physics as CIO of the publishing division, now AIP Publishing, LLC.
Jason Price, Claremont Colleges Library / SCELC
Jason S. Price is Interim Library Director at the Claremont Colleges Library. He earned a doctorate in plant evolutionary ecology from Indiana University Bloomington where he gained in depth experience as a teacher and researcher before pursuing a Masters in Library Science. He thoroughly enjoys applying hard won analytical skills to current library challenges. His role as Electronic Resource Consultant for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with libraries, consortia and publishers to improve products and increase pricing equity. A practiced dabbler, he enjoys being involved in as many levels of academic library teaching and research as he can handle (and sometimes a few more!). He has been publishing and speaking about electronic resource usage, discovery and access since 2005.
Mirjam Kessler, Springer
Mirjam Kessler is a metadata manager at Springer Science and Business Media in Heidelberg, where she is responsible for metadata development and strategy with a focus on library data standards (MARC, AACR2, RDA, Linked Data and Semantic Web). She holds Master’s degrees in both Linguistics and Library and Information Science, and has been working in the field of metadata standards, data exchange, digital libraries and information retrieval for more than ten years. Before joining Springer in 2011, she served as a research assistant at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and as a project coordinator at the German National Library.
Bill Kasdorf, Apex CoVantage, Content Solutions
Bill Kasdorf, General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, is Vice President and principal consultant of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of data conversion, editorial, production, and content enhancement services to publishers and other organizations worldwide. Active in many standards initiatives, Bill serves on the IDPF Working Group developing the EPUB 3 standard (he was coordinator of its Metadata Subgroup and is now active in the Indexing Working Group); the IDEAlliance working group developing the nextPub PSV source format for magazines and other design- and feature-rich publications (chairing its Packaging PSV as EPUB Committee); he is Chair of the BISG Content Structure Committee; and he is a member of the Publishing Business STM/Scholarly Advisory Board and the NISO eBook SIG. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award and the IDEAlliance/DEER Luminaire Award, Bill has led seminars, written articles, and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, O’Reilly TOC, NISO, BISG, IDPF, DBW, AAP, AAUP, ALPSP, STM, Seybold Seminars, and the Library of Congress. Most recently, he is the author of the chapter on EPUB metadata and packaging for OReilly’s EPUB 3 Best Practices. In his consulting practice, Bill has served clients globally, including large international publishers such as Pearson, Cengage, Wolters Kluwer, and Sage; scholarly presses and societies such as Harvard, MIT, Toronto, ASME, and IEEE; aggregators such as CourseSmart and netLibrary; and global publishing organizations such as the World Bank, the British Library, and the European Union.
Greg Tananbaum, ScholarNext Consulting
Greg Tananbaum is the owner of ScholarNext Consulting, focusing on issues at the intersection of technology, content, and academia. Clients include Microsoft, SPARC, PLOS, Annual Reviews, NISO, the American Heart Association, and eLife. Greg has more than 15 years’ experience in the scholarly communication space. In addition to his consulting work, he has served as President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote. Greg writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. He has been as an invited speaker at dozens of conferences, including the American Library Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Association of Professional and Learned Society Publishers, and Online Information UK. He holds a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.
Rachael Hu, California Digital Library
Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager for the California Digital Library, has a keen understanding of academic users and the challenges they face while conducting research. She translates user needs into effective design solutions for many of CDL’s online services. At CDL, she has led the design of a number of projects, including the Online Archive of California and the reimagining of the CDL and University of California Libraries’ websites. Rachael has served on the NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Materials Group and the DataONE Usability Working Group. She holds an MS in Information from the University of Michigan.