NISO Professional Development Events, May and June 2026
May 2026
NISO Webinar
Deep Dive: The Healthy Metadata Ecosystem
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 11:00 am–12:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
This conversation explores how the right (and wrong) metadata shape discovery, accessibility, and success—from standards and identifiers to tags, usage, and AI readiness.
Confirmed speakers include Molly Hirst, Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences, University of Michigan; Andrew Joseph, Digital Publisher, Wits University Press; Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Crossref; and Matt Ragucci, Director, Institutional Product Marketing, Wiley. This program will be moderated by Alice Meadows, Founder and Consultant at Ore Consulting.
June 2026
New! NISO Training Series
Organizational Resilience through Collaboration: A 2026 NISO Training Series
Thursdays, June 4–June 25, 2026, 11:00 am–12:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
From research infrastructure to consortia, collaborative models provide creative solutions to shared challenges, helping to scale capacity and reduce risk for all stakeholders. This four-week virtual training course will provide a practical guide to the pros and cons of cross-stakeholder collaboration in scholarly communications and its importance for organizational resilience.
Participants will learn about the importance of establishing shared goals and values, ensuring effective communications, getting and maintaining buy-in from the communities being served, and measuring progress. They will hear from the leaders of two successful, community-led collaborations: Maurice York, Vice President for Library Programs, Big Ten Academic Alliance, and Chris Shillum, Executive Director of ORCID. These speakers will share key challenges and opportunities their organizations have faced as well as lessons learned on their paths to resilience through collaboration. The course is also interactive, with participants learning through doing and discussing as well as listening. Alice Meadows, Independent Consultant and Founder, MoreBrains Cooperative will serve as the course facilitator.
NISO Webinar
Much Ado About Authorship: Research Integrity & AI Systems
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 11:00 am–12:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
What counts as authorship when AI assists—or drafts—content? We’ll dig into disclosure practices, tools and workflows for detecting machine-generated text and images, handling hallucinations and manipulated content, and editorial policies that safeguard trust while keeping reviews efficient.
NISO Meeting
NISO 2026 Annual Members Meeting
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00 pm Noon–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
The NISO Annual Members Meeting will take place online on Wednesday, June 24, from 12:00–1:30 pm EDT/5:00–6:30 pm BST. This program is open to the public, and all (members as well as nonmembers) are welcome to participate. You will hear from our Executive Director, Todd Carpenter, and other NISO staff about important organizational issues, including the NISO Plus conference, our organizational finances, and our standards program. It’s also a chance for you to ask us any questions you have about our organization and how we operate as well as to share your own feedback about NISO and our work.