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Upcoming Events
December 2024 Librarian Community Call
Persistent Identifiers, commonly referred to as PIDs, play a pivotal role in fostering trust within scholarly publications while concurrently enhancing publication discoverability and accessibility.
Join the December 10th OpenCon Librarian Community Call to learn about the multifaceted value of PIDs at different levels, including: authors, articles, and journals. Perhaps more vitally, PIDs are often interoperable and push metadata between organizations and services. And, they do so with an "automagical" open infrastructure maintained, largely, by not-for-profit organizations.
Meet the Speaker:
Mike Nason is the Open Scholarship and Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also the Metadata and Crossref Liaison with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and a PKP Publishing Services team member. He currently serves on the Coalition Publica technical committee and was the chair of their metadata working group, a two-year project to establish better metadata practices for the Coalition Publica membership and broader OJS community. Mike also chaired the ORCID-CA governing committee as part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) consortium.
OpenCon Librarian Community Calls are limited to those working in libraries, and registration is now required. You can register for the December call here.
Agenda and Notes
You can find all the proposed agendas and notes from the Librarian community calls in one place, right here.
Recordings
Community Calls are not recorded to support a safer environment for open and honest discussion. However, notes are taken.
What to expect
Community calls are always friendly, and we love new faces. The more you participate, the more you'll get out of it! No doubt there will be a lot of this too.