NISO Workshops
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NISO Workshops


NISO will present two fall workshops on two important topics: Metasearching and the OpenURL. Both events will be held in Washington, DC.

Wednesday, October 29, 2003, is "Metasearch: What It is Now, What It Could Be, and How Standards Can Help Us Get There." Speakers will report on the state of the art and products, implementation and deployment challenges, and new standards and guidelines under development.

The second workshop, on Thursday, November 13, 2003 "OpenURL: the Next Generation of Improving Access to Full-text Content," will explore practical aspects of OpenURL implementation for libraries and content providers and report on the trial implementation of OpenURL Version 1.0.

Please check the NISO website after August 25th for program and registration details.





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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services standard (version 1.0) for a trial use period ending November 1, 2003. The OpenURL standard allows a user who has retrieved an information...



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