Second In-person Meeting
NISO hosted the second of three free and open in-person meetings in support of this work on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 in Washington, DC.. The objective of this gathering, as well as planned future meetings (see below), is to elicit and prioritize themes for greater discussion over the coming months.
Event Sessions
Welcome
8:30 am
Introduction
Speaker
9:15 am: Background and What We Hope to Achieve
Do We need Standards for Alternative Metrics?
Break
9:45 am
Lightning Talks on Related Projects (5 min each, speakers listed alphabetically)
Speakers
10:00am:
- Kenning Arlitch, Dean of the Library, Montana State University: Altmetrics for Institutional Repositories: Are the metadata ready?
- Jeff Baer, Vice-President, Operations, Research Solutions, Proquest: International Standard Name Identifier
- Rachel Borchardt, Science Librarian, American University: How can Librarians be involved in Altmetrics?
- William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley: Snowball Metrics: Global Standards for Institutional Benchmarking
- Michael Habib, Product Manager, Scopus, Elsevier: Researcher Awareness + Perception: A Year in Review
- Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director, American Research Library: MINES for Libraries
- David Lowe, Data Management Services Librarian, University of Connecticut Libraries: The TPR Dashboard as Altmetrics' Killer App
Speakers
- Roger Schonfeld, Program Director, Ithaka S+R
- Bill Silberg, Director of Communications, PCORI
Lunch
11:30 am
Breakout of first round of Discussion Groups
12:30 pm:
The groups will have an open discussion of their selected topics and how it plays into a future ecosystem. Depending on the topic, this could include identification of related projects, potential solutions, ongoing pilot projects and gaps in community activity related to the theme. Each group will come up with 3-6 action items related to the topic for prioritization later.
Reporting Out of Discussion Groups & All-Attendee Discussion of Reports
1:30 pm:
Each group will report on its discussions, highlighting necessary actions, gaps or areas where more information is needed.
Document: Business and Use Cases Group
Document: Discovery Group
Document: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Group
Reporting out of second round of discussion groups
3:45 pm:
All attendee discussion of reports
Wrap up & next steps
4:10 pm
Meeting adjourns
4:30 pm