[Eril-l] NISO Announces Plans for Two NISO Plus Conferences in 2024

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*Baltimore, Maryland — September 28, 2023:* In response to feedback from
the information community, the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) is planning two NISO Plus events in 2024, one in person and the
other online. This strategy will afford attendees a valuable opportunity to
interact in an on-site meeting in 2024 while also ensuring that the
organization can continue to build on the success of previous Plus
conferences, which have been hosted virtually since 2021.



The NISO Plus conference was first held in Baltimore, Maryland, in February
2020, just prior to the shift to virtual meetings that occurred throughout
the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the
conference has been held virtually and has grown in popularity, drawing
over 600 attendees from over 28 countries in 2023. In recent months,
however, the demand for a different modality has grown. In response, the
fifth-anniversary NISO Plus Baltimore conference will take place in person
on February 13–14, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore.
Organized by a volunteer committee representing libraries, publishers,
vendors, and more from around the world, the program will focus on the
themes of metadata, AI, and open access. The meeting format will emphasize
conversation over presentation and offer opportunities throughout for
participants to network, collaborate, and explore solutions to challenges
currently facing scholarly communications.



NISO will also continue to host an annual virtual conference. NISO Plus
Global/Online will be held over two days in September 2024, with a program
built on proposals solicited from the community. In addition to offering a
more inclusive, accessible option for those who cannot attend in person,
the virtual conference will continue to build on the growth in
international engagement enabled by the shift from in-person to online
meetings. As in prior years, the meeting will feature time slots
accommodating attendees and speakers from outside North America, and
keynotes from experts based in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC are
anticipated. “We’ve learned a lot from our virtual conference experiences
and will retain the features that made recent NISO Plus events a success,”
said Jason Griffey, NISO Director of Strategic Initiatives. “We invite
members of our community to celebrate NISO Plus’s fifth anniversary with us
in whatever way best works for them—in person, virtually, or both.”



Both conferences will continue in the tradition of NISO Plus and remain
community- and outcome-driven. They will bring stakeholders in scholarly
communications together to explore new ways to ensure the free and open
exchange of information, with a focus on generating ideas that lead to
projects and ultimately solutions.

Registration for NISO Plus Baltimore will open in October. For more
information about this announcement, please contact nisohq at niso.org.





About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.


NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

Email: nisohq at niso.org
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