Introduction to the Pre-Standards Workshop (pdf)
7:15am Registration and continental breakfast
8:00am Welcome and introductions
Denise Troll Covey (Chair of the Workshop Planning Committee and a member of the NISO Standards Development Committee, and Principal Librarian for Special Projects, Carnegie Mellon University)
8:10-8:45am Opening speaker:
David Seaman, Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation
8:45-10:00am Panel 1: Community requirements for rights expression
· Publisher/aggregator: Geoffrey Adams (Director, IT Solutions, Elsevier Science)
·Vendor/developer: Gillian Harrision (Sr. Manager, Library and Product Research, NetLibrary, a division of OCLC)
· E-learning: Robby Robson (President and CEO, Eduworks Corporation)
· Libraries: Nathan Robertson (Johns Hopkins University Library)
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:30am Small groups activity
Objective: In small groups, review two use cases provided. For each case, identify the communities involved and each community's priority requirements.
11:30-12:00N Reports from Small groups
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm Continue reports from group activity
2:00-2:30pm Discussion
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4:15 Panel 2: Rights Expression and management in the supply chain
· Aggregator: Steve Potash (President, OverDrive)
· Serials: James Mouw (The University of Chicago)
· Multimedia Aggregator: William Ying (CTO ARTstor)
· Publisher: Mladen Maljkovic (Executive Product Manager, Assessment, Pearson Education)
· E-learning: Jan Poston Day (Director, Standards and Interoperability, Blackboard)
4:15-5:00 Group Discussion
Objective: Begin to identify top priorities for standards work and the communities that would support them.
6:00pm Reception with cash bar
7:15-8:00am Continental breakfast
8:00-9:30am Panel 3: Rights issues & policies with licensed and non-licensed materials
Requirements and use cases for licensed and non-licensed materials, system requirements for libraries and e-learning.
· Archives: Peter Hirtle (Director for Instruction and Learning in the Instruction, Research, and Information Services Division of Cornell University Library)
· Libraries: Sharon Farb (Coordinator for Digital Acquisitions, University Libraries, UCLA)
· Museums: Susan Chun (General Manager for Electronic Information Planning, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
· Creative Commons: Michael Carroll (Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University)
· Institutional repositories: Leslie Johnston (Director, Digital Access Services, University of Virginia Library)
9:30-10:30am Small groups activity: Opportunities and priorities for standards work
Objective: Based on workshop presentations and discussion, identify three to five critical-path problems, opportunities, or priorities that standards or best practices could address and some communities that could collaborate to work on them.
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-12:00pm Group discussion
Objective: Reports from Small groups activity. Articulate and prioritize both the problems and priorities raised by the panels.
12:00-1:00pm Lunch – Speaker: Phil Merrill, Digital Media Project
1:00-2:30pm Group discussion moving toward conclusions and recommendations
2:30-3:00pm Group Synthesis: Karen Coyle
3:00pm Adjournment