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SPEAKER 1: Hello.
SPEAKER 2: Hello.
SPEAKER 3: Hello.
SPEAKER 4: Hello.
SPEAKER 5: Hello.
SPEAKER 6: Hello.
SPEAKER 7: Hello.
SPEAKER 8: Hello.
SPEAKER 9: Hello.
SPEAKER 10: Hello.
SPEAKER 11: Hello.
SPEAKER 12: Hello.
SPEAKER 13: Hello.
SPEAKER 2: And welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 14: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 15: And welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 16: [SPEAKING CHINESE]
SPEAKER 17: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 14: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
SPEAKER 18: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021. We are thrilled that you are joining us for this, the second annual NISO Plus conference.
SPEAKER 13: Our first conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in February 2020.
SPEAKER 18: It was an in-person event. And for many attendees, it was the last conference that they attended before the COVID-19 lockdowns started.
SPEAKER 13: At the time, we could never have predicted that a full year later we would be still dealing with the pandemic.
SPEAKER 9: We've organized the sessions to feature both presentations by experts and interactive conversations between all participants. We hope that the same richness of experience from NISO Plus 2020 comes through this year, albeit in a virtual space rather than a physical one.
SPEAKER 7: Of course, one huge advantage of a virtual conference is that we are not constrained by geography, in terms of either speakers or attendees.
SPEAKER 19: As a result, this year's participants come from every continent except Antarctica.
SPEAKER 5: You represent a wide variety of functions, from communications and outreach, to product management and technology, and so much more.
SPEAKER 7: And you work across all our main stakeholder groups.
SPEAKER 19: A broad cross-section of libraries--
SPEAKER 5: --publishers and system vendors.
SPEAKER 8: As members of the planning committee for NISO Plus 2021, we hope that you'll enjoy the program that, along with NISO staff, we've put together for you.
SPEAKER 4: It's a mix of invited sessions and responses to our call for submissions.
SPEAKER 20: Covering a wide range of topics that are of particular interest to our community, both now and in the future.
SPEAKER 1: To ensure as many of you as possible can participate, the conference sessions are divided into two blocks of time.
SPEAKER 14: There are also two social events which we strongly encourage you to attend.
SPEAKER 1: All of this information is in the schedule.
SPEAKER 10: We hope you are as excited as we are about the conversations we will be having over the next four days.
SPEAKER 15: About this opportunity to learn from the knowledge and perspectives that we will each be bringing to this conversation.
SPEAKER 11: Thank you so much for being here. We can't wait to hear what you think about NISO Plus 2021. [MUSIC PLAYING]
TODD CARPENTER: All right. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you are. Welcome. Welcome to NISO Plus 2021. As was mentioned, my name is Todd Carpenter. I'm the Executive Director of NISO. And I really can hardly contain my excitement that you all have joined us for this event. As you've just heard from the program committee, this is our second NISO Plus conference.
TODD CARPENTER: And we are about to delight you with 3 and 1/2 days of great connections, amazing content, and engaging conversations. In 2019, NISO merged with NFAIS, which had had a decades-long tradition of convening its own community of information industry partners. Our two organizations had overlapping memberships and complementary goals. So the fit was a good one.
TODD CARPENTER: NISO structured its conference as a convening built around thought leadership and sharing ideas about our future. Now, NISO had a tradition of smaller, focused meetings, focused gatherings on topics like e-books, or managing electronic collections, or similar narrow themes with a goal of advancing work in those spaces. One element of that vision behind the merger was to combine this thought leadership with the practical.
TODD CARPENTER: From the outset with NISO Plus, we wanted to create a new conference experience. Of course, we wanted visionary speakers to inspire you to think big thoughts and how the world could be different or improved. And yes, we want to reflect on the massive changes that technology and openness have reshaped how we function and interact. I'm quite certain in the next few days we'll do that with some of the amazing keynotes that we have for you.
TODD CARPENTER: But we also wanted to make this experience about you, about your organizations, about your problems. The tagline for our conference is global connections and global conversations. And we truly mean both of those things. Not like some conference headlines which are meant to be cute framings of trends that go by year to year.
TODD CARPENTER: Global connections and global conversations summarizes what we hope to achieve with this meeting. First of all, we have gone all-in on being a global meeting, as you've seen from the conference program committee. Taking advantage of the virtual world we've all been thrust into and the imposed separation were forced to endure, we decided early on to be virtual forward.
TODD CARPENTER: We embraced it as an opportunity to expand what we wanted to do and who we could reach. The conference didn't need to be bound by the constraints and costs of bringing people to Baltimore, as lovely as it is, especially on this snowy morning. We could drive down the costs so that everyone could participate. You didn't need a corporate or research institution travel budget to engage.
TODD CARPENTER: We didn't have to fly around the world to meet. Now of course, it's not the same. But it can be different in different ways. And global conversations is another guiding principle for this meeting. We don't want this to be an educational forum in the traditional sense. We don't want you all sitting around listening to a quote "sage on the stage" for four days.
TODD CARPENTER: Ideally, you will be engaged with the speakers and with each other. You are as much of this program as the speakers and the moderators that are doing the talks. In our first NISO Plus conference last February, we built a meeting around conversations, not presentations. Since this year's meeting is almost four times larger than last year's meeting, it simply isn't possible that the majority of you were here to engage in that or hear me to describe what we're trying to achieve.
TODD CARPENTER: So I'm going to reiterate a little bit of that. How many of us have been at great conferences listening to talks from amazing people at large organizations and then going back to our respective offices and realizing that there is no way I can apply that to my environment, or that that really doesn't solve my problems? For example, if you have solved the world's problem with your artificial intelligence system, that is great.
TODD CARPENTER: But this isn't the conference for you because that's not really the conversation we want to have. We would rather hear about the problems you are having gathering and ingesting data into your world-changing AI system, or the issues that you're having getting your system to interact with other systems in our space. It could be licensing problems. It could be copyright problems.
TODD CARPENTER: It could be your data structure or interchanging issues within a visualization tool. Or it could be your sales processes. No system or organization lives in a vacuum. And information systems are incredibly interdependent. And they rely on standards. And NISO exists to smooth those interactions and make them more efficient. And the purpose of this conference is to identify what those problems are and to help you connect with others who are facing similar problems.
TODD CARPENTER: Now from there, you all-- or we all-- can collectively work to solve those problems. We're going to try and foster discussions in several ways. Just so that what to expect, during each session there will be an introduction to the topic by way of a short set of talks. Maybe 30 to 40 minutes. And then we'll follow that up with a discussion session for each session, usually ranging from about half the length of the session.
TODD CARPENTER: Near the end of those discussions, the moderators will draw the conversations to a close, noting a few couple concrete project ideas that came up during the discussion as potential things that we could do. This could be anything from improving metadata for preservation of indigenous knowledge to improved testing methods for accessibility, or perhaps developing identifiers for packages of content.
TODD CARPENTER: Who knows what great ideas you all are going to come up with? We'll then ask all of you if you'd be willing to participate in some follow-up workshops to help craft project proposals to do whatever that thing is. And don't worry. Volunteering to participate in a workshop doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be on a working group, or chair a project, or anything like that.
TODD CARPENTER: Well, maybe not yet. In late March or April, we'll begin to organize those follow-up workshops. During those workshops, we'll guide you through the process of getting that idea up and running as a community initiative. Now, I should add a note of realism to this approach. We have 40-plus sessions at the queued up for this week. And we don't expect that every session will lead to a project idea or that every project idea will have 15 or 20 people who are willing to work on that project.
TODD CARPENTER: It would be wonderful, but simply NISO doesn't have the resources to launch 40-plus new projects. So a couple of things. First of all, not every project is going to get off the ground. Depending on the ideas, depending on the number of people, depending on the scope, we may be-- and actually probably will be-- selective in the ideas that we move forward to the workshop phase after the conference.
TODD CARPENTER: Obviously, if you're passionate about an idea, we can talk. And if there's a large enough group that makes sense, we won't sideline that idea. We'll listen. And we'll respond. And we'll find a path forward for you. But again, I don't expect that every idea at this conference will have legs and take off.
TODD CARPENTER: Another aspect of this is our embrace of the idea that NISO does not need to be the home for every project idea generated at NISO Plus. If you have a great idea that isn't perfect for NISO, or doesn't meet our criteria, or whatever it might be, we are happy-- excited-- for you to spin it up in a more appropriate community. Say, the American Library Association, the Research Data Alliance, the new STM Innovations Lab, or even spinning up your own new company.
TODD CARPENTER: From our perspective, that is great. And maybe at some point, do mention that the idea got started at NISO Plus. But please, feel free to take the ideas that are generated here and run with them. Last year, for example, a couple of great ideas got moving at NISO Plus I wasn't even aware of until many months later, which I found incredibly gratifying. Think of NISO Plus as an incubator of tech ideas for our community, just without the 10% equity stake in the outcome.
TODD CARPENTER: Our goal is to see that hundreds of seeds are scattered. Some may sprout. Some won't. Maybe one or two over time could grow into something that changes our landscape in a significant way. We will only know if NISO Plus is a success-- a real success-- 3, 5, maybe 10 years from now.
TODD CARPENTER: Now, this is going to take work that we are hopefully-- it's critically important that this work is founded in conversations. So in order to make that work, we're going to have to have some ground rules. Some expectations. And the first and primary of those is, please be kind. We have a code of conduct.
TODD CARPENTER: And you should all be aware of it and adhere to it. We have brought together people from around the world, from different perspectives, from different backgrounds, different industries, different cultures. Please be respectful of those differences. Celebrate them by being respectful. If you are shouting, if you're name calling, belittling, you are not conversing. And that won't lead towards the goal of building consensus and working together, which is the core feature of what we're trying to do.
TODD CARPENTER: Second, the conversation, certainly, I expect will extend beyond the 30 to 45 minutes that we have allotted in the discussions. We've set up a discourse site where asynchronous conversations can continue. We plan to be busy on social media-- please use the hashtag #NISOPlus21-- to connect those conversations together.
TODD CARPENTER: Finally, we'll be trying to encourage those conversations to continue both in formal and informal ways as the conference is over. And then finally, I want this to be a joyous experience for you all. Jason Griffey, NISO's Director of Strategic Initiatives and the lead organizer of this conference has used the term "delightful" to describe the conference experience we all want you to have.
TODD CARPENTER: We tried to make this as different as possible so that it's not just 50-plus hours of Zoom and webinar presentations. Jason is going to walk you through the logistics. But know that we have tried to think through this experience and how we can make it all a good one for you. However, I also know that this is an experiment. The first NISO Plus 2020 conference was an experiment. When I opened the meeting, we didn't quite know how things would go.
TODD CARPENTER: In the end, it was amazing. So, well, the world seems to have spread about what we're trying to do. We expect that NISO Plus 21 will work out as well, although probably not perfectly. But please be patient. If you need help, we have resources and a team ready to respond. So as I draw my introduction to a close, I'd be remiss if I didn't take a moment to thank the large number of people who've worked for months to make this event a success.
TODD CARPENTER: The program committee, who introduced the meeting, deserve our great thanks. As do the many speakers and moderators who've contributed their time and expertise to leading the conversations we hope we'll have. We should also be grateful to the many sponsors who've contributed, either financially or in kind, to ensuring this meeting is affordable for you all and so that we could make it a truly inclusive meeting.
TODD CARPENTER: Finally, I'd like to extend my heartfelt Thanks to the NISO staff who've been working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure you're all going to have a great experience. So before I pass it over to Jason, I want to stress again how pleased we are at the outpouring support for this meeting. And we're pleased that you've decided to engage in the conversation that we are hosting. We've worked hard to put together something that I hope is novel in this crazy world that we're living through.
TODD CARPENTER: Please enjoy the program. But remember, this conference is not about what happens between now and Thursday afternoon. It is about what happens at the end of the final keynote. It's about what happens next. And we want you to all be a part of that. So let's get going. Jason, I'm going to pass it over to you.
JASON GRIFFEY: Awesome. Thank you so much, Todd. I'm going to do a quick screen share. I am here. Yes. All right. I'm here to give you a quick overview of the logistics of the conference. This is going to be very fast.
JASON GRIFFEY: The goal here is going to be to just give you a brief overview. These slides are available for you to download. So as I go through, if you want to refer back to anything, the slides are available in Sched for you to download for reference. First up, I am Jason Griffey. I am the Director of Strategic Initiatives here at NISO. And more importantly for this purpose, I'm the Director and Chair of the NISO Plus conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: Before we get any further into the conference, I'd like to acknowledge that sort of an unusual situation. Each of us is in a different place. We're not together physically. And even though we're not together physically, we are still tethered to places virtually. And I felt that it was important to recognize this. The websites and the resources that we're using in order to produce this conference-- the NISO Plus website, Sched, the system that we are using to reflect the schedule and speaker information, Zoom, of course, which we are all now really familiar with, and our social platform Gather Town that we are going to be using for a number of events are all things.
JASON GRIFFEY: They're all websites. But they're hosted and physical places. And so I want to acknowledge that we're using resources from the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva, Illinois, Potawatomi, and the Conoy people. And I want to pay my respects to their elders. I also want to acknowledge that I, personally, am currently on the ancestral and unceded ground of the Shawnee, Chickasaw, and Cherokee people and to pay my respects to where I am.
JASON GRIFFEY: And all of you are around the world. We had a wonderful planning committee that you got to see a little bit of and that Todd referenced. We came together to plan this conference for you. 27 different people from 11 different countries ended up gathering together over 820 attendees for this conference, with 21% of those coming from outside of the US from 26 different countries and nearly every inhabited time zone.
JASON GRIFFEY: It's really an extraordinary gathering. So incredibly happy that everyone is here and is able to take part in this. We have also worked with a data visualization expert. Dario Ruggiero is putting together a visualization of the interests of everyone involved, of the speakers. This particular visualization that you're seeing here on the screen now is of the speakers at the conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: That link will take you to the visualization that shows the deep interconnections between the people involved in the conference. So if you want to do some sort of interesting explorations of how people are connected and where the topics overlap, we have an interesting platform for you to be able to do that. And I will also say if you'd like to be a part of this visualization, make sure that you fill out your information in Sched as to your bio.
JASON GRIFFEY: And that's the information that we use in order to create the visualization for the conference. So some very quick logistics before we move on to the real star of the show, our opening keynote, Cory Doctorow. Very quickly, I want to go through the platforms that we're using for this, just so that everyone sort of has a reference.
JASON GRIFFEY: And again, don't worry about noting everything down. You can download these slides and refer to them at your leisure. We are using Sched as our primary interface for the conference. If you have a question about where or when something is, Sched is the answer. If you are here with me right now, you have probably sorted that out in that that's how you got to this particular place.
JASON GRIFFEY: But it bears repeating that if you have any questions about how to get to something, inside of every session description in Sched, there is a video stream link. That big yellow button will take you wherever you need to go for the session in question, whether that is here in Zoom, whether that is our video platform Cadmore Media, whether that is our social platform Gather Town, that is the one link you need to click in order to get wherever a session needs you to be.
JASON GRIFFEY: We also have, as Todd referenced, a sort of asynchronous discussion going on simultaneously. We have, as I said, many hundreds of people from many different time zones. Not everyone can be here with us simultaneously. And so we wanted to be able to give people an opportunity to interact in an asynchronous manner. And so we have a Discourse set up for the conference, and for NISO in general.
JASON GRIFFEY: Discourse is a forum software where discussions are threaded, and you can ask questions, and get answers over time without being tied necessarily to the conference proper. So if you have questions you'd like to ask before or after a session, you can go to Discourse and we can have a conversation there. The sessions do start promptly at the time they are scheduled to start. So the videos for most sessions are pre-recorded.
JASON GRIFFEY: This means that they will kick off and we will watch them all together. But they are pre-programmed. So if you show up a few minutes late, you'll miss the introduction of a thing. We did build in time between sessions. So there's plenty of time for you to move from platform to platform. But it bears noting that everything will start precisely at the time that it is scheduled to start.
JASON GRIFFEY: When you click through to a session, you will see a video page. That page will have a not started yet if you're there a little bit too early. But mostly you will see a join screening link. Once the time comes for the top of the hour or the half hour, whenever the session starts, the video will autoplay. Below the video, there will be a transcript. Every session has a full transcript so that you can follow along very easily.
JASON GRIFFEY: On the right of the video interface is a chat we will have during the sessions. That chat will be filled with both moderator, the speakers, the attendees, and the NISO staff member for the session. So we will have lots of animated discussion there for people to take part in while the pre-recorded content is going on. After the content ends, we will all move for that session into a Zoom experience where we'll have a conversation, as Todd had described earlier.
JASON GRIFFEY: We'll have the ability to talk about the topics, to work through problems around the topics, and to move into breakout rooms where we can have small group discussions about particular aspects of the topics. So we're hoping that this sort of combination of tools gives us the ability to have a rich and detailed experience, not exactly like we're together in person, but we're trying to make sure that the conversations are rich and flow freely.
JASON GRIFFEY: We also have a sort of dedicated social space where if you'd like to meet up with friends and just talk, if you'd like to see who's available, who's around in the conference, if you'd like to play a game-- there are some games-- or go to the relaxation room and watch cute animal videos. We have a space that we've designed just for the conference. This is Gather Town.
JASON GRIFFEY: It's very interesting. It's a super interesting experience. There's some assistance and help on the slide there. But if you'd like to explore that, that is open the entirety of the conference. We will have this space open 24/7 through the end of the week. So you can go there and see and visit with other people in the conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: We will also have a couple of dedicated social events there that you can partake in. So I've mentioned Discourse. If you have not yet signed up for Discourse, there is a link hidden in this QR code that you can snap with a mobile device and be taken to a sign up page for Discourse. Again, if you don't get it right now, go back and download the slides, and you'll be able to get to it that way.
JASON GRIFFEY: The social events. We have three dedicated social events for the conference. We have a Jeopardy game, which will be going on later this evening-- or evening here in the US at least-- that is sponsored by Figshare. That is a Jeopardy game dedicated to standards. So come and see what that's like. It's going to be super fun.
JASON GRIFFEY: We have an art experience that is sponsored by EBSCO. That's going to be taking place in Gather Town on Tuesday US time. And then we have a cocktail bocktail hour that is sponsored by Crossref. And that will be taking place on Wednesday. If you need help at any point during the conference, there are a couple of generic IT help steps. One, try a different browser.
JASON GRIFFEY: Two, check the schedule and make sure that you clicked the right link. But we do have a dedicated team of people to help you if you have problems. So if you visit niso.plus/help, that will get you the help that you need. We're happy to make sure that the experience is good for you. If you'd like to stay in touch with NISO after the fact-- after everything is over-- we do have the ability, obviously.
JASON GRIFFEY: We have a number of informational listservs. We have a lot of ways that we can keep the conversation going long term. And again, you can get to this after the fact if you'd like. And finally, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And your participation is going to be what makes the difference in the success of the conference.
JASON GRIFFEY:
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SPEAKER 1: Hello.
SPEAKER 2: Hello.
SPEAKER 3: Hello.
SPEAKER 4: Hello.
SPEAKER 5: Hello.
SPEAKER 6: Hello.
SPEAKER 7: Hello.
SPEAKER 8: Hello.
SPEAKER 9: Hello.
SPEAKER 10: Hello.
SPEAKER 11: Hello.
SPEAKER 12: Hello.
SPEAKER 13: Hello.
SPEAKER 2: And welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 14: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 15: And welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 16: [SPEAKING CHINESE]
SPEAKER 17: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021.
SPEAKER 14: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
SPEAKER 18: Welcome to NISO Plus 2021. We are thrilled that you are joining us for this, the second annual NISO Plus conference.
SPEAKER 13: Our first conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in February 2020.
SPEAKER 18: It was an in-person event. And for many attendees, it was the last conference that they attended before the COVID-19 lockdowns started.
SPEAKER 13: At the time, we could never have predicted that a full year later we would be still dealing with the pandemic.
SPEAKER 9: We've organized the sessions to feature both presentations by experts and interactive conversations between all participants. We hope that the same richness of experience from NISO Plus 2020 comes through this year, albeit in a virtual space rather than a physical one.
SPEAKER 7: Of course, one huge advantage of a virtual conference is that we are not constrained by geography, in terms of either speakers or attendees.
SPEAKER 19: As a result, this year's participants come from every continent except Antarctica.
SPEAKER 5: You represent a wide variety of functions, from communications and outreach, to product management and technology, and so much more.
SPEAKER 7: And you work across all our main stakeholder groups.
SPEAKER 19: A broad cross-section of libraries--
SPEAKER 5: --publishers and system vendors.
SPEAKER 8: As members of the planning committee for NISO Plus 2021, we hope that you'll enjoy the program that, along with NISO staff, we've put together for you.
SPEAKER 4: It's a mix of invited sessions and responses to our call for submissions.
SPEAKER 20: Covering a wide range of topics that are of particular interest to our community, both now and in the future.
SPEAKER 1: To ensure as many of you as possible can participate, the conference sessions are divided into two blocks of time.
SPEAKER 14: There are also two social events which we strongly encourage you to attend.
SPEAKER 1: All of this information is in the schedule.
SPEAKER 10: We hope you are as excited as we are about the conversations we will be having over the next four days.
SPEAKER 15: About this opportunity to learn from the knowledge and perspectives that we will each be bringing to this conversation.
SPEAKER 11: Thank you so much for being here. We can't wait to hear what you think about NISO Plus 2021. [MUSIC PLAYING]
TODD CARPENTER: All right. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you are. Welcome. Welcome to NISO Plus 2021. As was mentioned, my name is Todd Carpenter. I'm the Executive Director of NISO. And I really can hardly contain my excitement that you all have joined us for this event. As you've just heard from the program committee, this is our second NISO Plus conference.
TODD CARPENTER: And we are about to delight you with 3 and 1/2 days of great connections, amazing content, and engaging conversations. In 2019, NISO merged with NFAIS, which had had a decades-long tradition of convening its own community of information industry partners. Our two organizations had overlapping memberships and complementary goals. So the fit was a good one.
TODD CARPENTER: NISO structured its conference as a convening built around thought leadership and sharing ideas about our future. Now, NISO had a tradition of smaller, focused meetings, focused gatherings on topics like e-books, or managing electronic collections, or similar narrow themes with a goal of advancing work in those spaces. One element of that vision behind the merger was to combine this thought leadership with the practical.
TODD CARPENTER: From the outset with NISO Plus, we wanted to create a new conference experience. Of course, we wanted visionary speakers to inspire you to think big thoughts and how the world could be different or improved. And yes, we want to reflect on the massive changes that technology and openness have reshaped how we function and interact. I'm quite certain in the next few days we'll do that with some of the amazing keynotes that we have for you.
TODD CARPENTER: But we also wanted to make this experience about you, about your organizations, about your problems. The tagline for our conference is global connections and global conversations. And we truly mean both of those things. Not like some conference headlines which are meant to be cute framings of trends that go by year to year.
TODD CARPENTER: Global connections and global conversations summarizes what we hope to achieve with this meeting. First of all, we have gone all-in on being a global meeting, as you've seen from the conference program committee. Taking advantage of the virtual world we've all been thrust into and the imposed separation were forced to endure, we decided early on to be virtual forward.
TODD CARPENTER: We embraced it as an opportunity to expand what we wanted to do and who we could reach. The conference didn't need to be bound by the constraints and costs of bringing people to Baltimore, as lovely as it is, especially on this snowy morning. We could drive down the costs so that everyone could participate. You didn't need a corporate or research institution travel budget to engage.
TODD CARPENTER: We didn't have to fly around the world to meet. Now of course, it's not the same. But it can be different in different ways. And global conversations is another guiding principle for this meeting. We don't want this to be an educational forum in the traditional sense. We don't want you all sitting around listening to a quote "sage on the stage" for four days.
TODD CARPENTER: Ideally, you will be engaged with the speakers and with each other. You are as much of this program as the speakers and the moderators that are doing the talks. In our first NISO Plus conference last February, we built a meeting around conversations, not presentations. Since this year's meeting is almost four times larger than last year's meeting, it simply isn't possible that the majority of you were here to engage in that or hear me to describe what we're trying to achieve.
TODD CARPENTER: So I'm going to reiterate a little bit of that. How many of us have been at great conferences listening to talks from amazing people at large organizations and then going back to our respective offices and realizing that there is no way I can apply that to my environment, or that that really doesn't solve my problems? For example, if you have solved the world's problem with your artificial intelligence system, that is great.
TODD CARPENTER: But this isn't the conference for you because that's not really the conversation we want to have. We would rather hear about the problems you are having gathering and ingesting data into your world-changing AI system, or the issues that you're having getting your system to interact with other systems in our space. It could be licensing problems. It could be copyright problems.
TODD CARPENTER: It could be your data structure or interchanging issues within a visualization tool. Or it could be your sales processes. No system or organization lives in a vacuum. And information systems are incredibly interdependent. And they rely on standards. And NISO exists to smooth those interactions and make them more efficient. And the purpose of this conference is to identify what those problems are and to help you connect with others who are facing similar problems.
TODD CARPENTER: Now from there, you all-- or we all-- can collectively work to solve those problems. We're going to try and foster discussions in several ways. Just so that what to expect, during each session there will be an introduction to the topic by way of a short set of talks. Maybe 30 to 40 minutes. And then we'll follow that up with a discussion session for each session, usually ranging from about half the length of the session.
TODD CARPENTER: Near the end of those discussions, the moderators will draw the conversations to a close, noting a few couple concrete project ideas that came up during the discussion as potential things that we could do. This could be anything from improving metadata for preservation of indigenous knowledge to improved testing methods for accessibility, or perhaps developing identifiers for packages of content.
TODD CARPENTER: Who knows what great ideas you all are going to come up with? We'll then ask all of you if you'd be willing to participate in some follow-up workshops to help craft project proposals to do whatever that thing is. And don't worry. Volunteering to participate in a workshop doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be on a working group, or chair a project, or anything like that.
TODD CARPENTER: Well, maybe not yet. In late March or April, we'll begin to organize those follow-up workshops. During those workshops, we'll guide you through the process of getting that idea up and running as a community initiative. Now, I should add a note of realism to this approach. We have 40-plus sessions at the queued up for this week. And we don't expect that every session will lead to a project idea or that every project idea will have 15 or 20 people who are willing to work on that project.
TODD CARPENTER: It would be wonderful, but simply NISO doesn't have the resources to launch 40-plus new projects. So a couple of things. First of all, not every project is going to get off the ground. Depending on the ideas, depending on the number of people, depending on the scope, we may be-- and actually probably will be-- selective in the ideas that we move forward to the workshop phase after the conference.
TODD CARPENTER: Obviously, if you're passionate about an idea, we can talk. And if there's a large enough group that makes sense, we won't sideline that idea. We'll listen. And we'll respond. And we'll find a path forward for you. But again, I don't expect that every idea at this conference will have legs and take off.
TODD CARPENTER: Another aspect of this is our embrace of the idea that NISO does not need to be the home for every project idea generated at NISO Plus. If you have a great idea that isn't perfect for NISO, or doesn't meet our criteria, or whatever it might be, we are happy-- excited-- for you to spin it up in a more appropriate community. Say, the American Library Association, the Research Data Alliance, the new STM Innovations Lab, or even spinning up your own new company.
TODD CARPENTER: From our perspective, that is great. And maybe at some point, do mention that the idea got started at NISO Plus. But please, feel free to take the ideas that are generated here and run with them. Last year, for example, a couple of great ideas got moving at NISO Plus I wasn't even aware of until many months later, which I found incredibly gratifying. Think of NISO Plus as an incubator of tech ideas for our community, just without the 10% equity stake in the outcome.
TODD CARPENTER: Our goal is to see that hundreds of seeds are scattered. Some may sprout. Some won't. Maybe one or two over time could grow into something that changes our landscape in a significant way. We will only know if NISO Plus is a success-- a real success-- 3, 5, maybe 10 years from now.
TODD CARPENTER: Now, this is going to take work that we are hopefully-- it's critically important that this work is founded in conversations. So in order to make that work, we're going to have to have some ground rules. Some expectations. And the first and primary of those is, please be kind. We have a code of conduct.
TODD CARPENTER: And you should all be aware of it and adhere to it. We have brought together people from around the world, from different perspectives, from different backgrounds, different industries, different cultures. Please be respectful of those differences. Celebrate them by being respectful. If you are shouting, if you're name calling, belittling, you are not conversing. And that won't lead towards the goal of building consensus and working together, which is the core feature of what we're trying to do.
TODD CARPENTER: Second, the conversation, certainly, I expect will extend beyond the 30 to 45 minutes that we have allotted in the discussions. We've set up a discourse site where asynchronous conversations can continue. We plan to be busy on social media-- please use the hashtag #NISOPlus21-- to connect those conversations together.
TODD CARPENTER: Finally, we'll be trying to encourage those conversations to continue both in formal and informal ways as the conference is over. And then finally, I want this to be a joyous experience for you all. Jason Griffey, NISO's Director of Strategic Initiatives and the lead organizer of this conference has used the term "delightful" to describe the conference experience we all want you to have.
TODD CARPENTER: We tried to make this as different as possible so that it's not just 50-plus hours of Zoom and webinar presentations. Jason is going to walk you through the logistics. But know that we have tried to think through this experience and how we can make it all a good one for you. However, I also know that this is an experiment. The first NISO Plus 2020 conference was an experiment. When I opened the meeting, we didn't quite know how things would go.
TODD CARPENTER: In the end, it was amazing. So, well, the world seems to have spread about what we're trying to do. We expect that NISO Plus 21 will work out as well, although probably not perfectly. But please be patient. If you need help, we have resources and a team ready to respond. So as I draw my introduction to a close, I'd be remiss if I didn't take a moment to thank the large number of people who've worked for months to make this event a success.
TODD CARPENTER: The program committee, who introduced the meeting, deserve our great thanks. As do the many speakers and moderators who've contributed their time and expertise to leading the conversations we hope we'll have. We should also be grateful to the many sponsors who've contributed, either financially or in kind, to ensuring this meeting is affordable for you all and so that we could make it a truly inclusive meeting.
TODD CARPENTER: Finally, I'd like to extend my heartfelt Thanks to the NISO staff who've been working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure you're all going to have a great experience. So before I pass it over to Jason, I want to stress again how pleased we are at the outpouring support for this meeting. And we're pleased that you've decided to engage in the conversation that we are hosting. We've worked hard to put together something that I hope is novel in this crazy world that we're living through.
TODD CARPENTER: Please enjoy the program. But remember, this conference is not about what happens between now and Thursday afternoon. It is about what happens at the end of the final keynote. It's about what happens next. And we want you to all be a part of that. So let's get going. Jason, I'm going to pass it over to you.
JASON GRIFFEY: Awesome. Thank you so much, Todd. I'm going to do a quick screen share. I am here. Yes. All right. I'm here to give you a quick overview of the logistics of the conference. This is going to be very fast.
JASON GRIFFEY: The goal here is going to be to just give you a brief overview. These slides are available for you to download. So as I go through, if you want to refer back to anything, the slides are available in Sched for you to download for reference. First up, I am Jason Griffey. I am the Director of Strategic Initiatives here at NISO. And more importantly for this purpose, I'm the Director and Chair of the NISO Plus conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: Before we get any further into the conference, I'd like to acknowledge that sort of an unusual situation. Each of us is in a different place. We're not together physically. And even though we're not together physically, we are still tethered to places virtually. And I felt that it was important to recognize this. The websites and the resources that we're using in order to produce this conference-- the NISO Plus website, Sched, the system that we are using to reflect the schedule and speaker information, Zoom, of course, which we are all now really familiar with, and our social platform Gather Town that we are going to be using for a number of events are all things.
JASON GRIFFEY: They're all websites. But they're hosted and physical places. And so I want to acknowledge that we're using resources from the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva, Illinois, Potawatomi, and the Conoy people. And I want to pay my respects to their elders. I also want to acknowledge that I, personally, am currently on the ancestral and unceded ground of the Shawnee, Chickasaw, and Cherokee people and to pay my respects to where I am.
JASON GRIFFEY: And all of you are around the world. We had a wonderful planning committee that you got to see a little bit of and that Todd referenced. We came together to plan this conference for you. 27 different people from 11 different countries ended up gathering together over 820 attendees for this conference, with 21% of those coming from outside of the US from 26 different countries and nearly every inhabited time zone.
JASON GRIFFEY: It's really an extraordinary gathering. So incredibly happy that everyone is here and is able to take part in this. We have also worked with a data visualization expert. Dario Ruggiero is putting together a visualization of the interests of everyone involved, of the speakers. This particular visualization that you're seeing here on the screen now is of the speakers at the conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: That link will take you to the visualization that shows the deep interconnections between the people involved in the conference. So if you want to do some sort of interesting explorations of how people are connected and where the topics overlap, we have an interesting platform for you to be able to do that. And I will also say if you'd like to be a part of this visualization, make sure that you fill out your information in Sched as to your bio.
JASON GRIFFEY: And that's the information that we use in order to create the visualization for the conference. So some very quick logistics before we move on to the real star of the show, our opening keynote, Cory Doctorow. Very quickly, I want to go through the platforms that we're using for this, just so that everyone sort of has a reference.
JASON GRIFFEY: And again, don't worry about noting everything down. You can download these slides and refer to them at your leisure. We are using Sched as our primary interface for the conference. If you have a question about where or when something is, Sched is the answer. If you are here with me right now, you have probably sorted that out in that that's how you got to this particular place.
JASON GRIFFEY: But it bears repeating that if you have any questions about how to get to something, inside of every session description in Sched, there is a video stream link. That big yellow button will take you wherever you need to go for the session in question, whether that is here in Zoom, whether that is our video platform Cadmore Media, whether that is our social platform Gather Town, that is the one link you need to click in order to get wherever a session needs you to be.
JASON GRIFFEY: We also have, as Todd referenced, a sort of asynchronous discussion going on simultaneously. We have, as I said, many hundreds of people from many different time zones. Not everyone can be here with us simultaneously. And so we wanted to be able to give people an opportunity to interact in an asynchronous manner. And so we have a Discourse set up for the conference, and for NISO in general.
JASON GRIFFEY: Discourse is a forum software where discussions are threaded, and you can ask questions, and get answers over time without being tied necessarily to the conference proper. So if you have questions you'd like to ask before or after a session, you can go to Discourse and we can have a conversation there. The sessions do start promptly at the time they are scheduled to start. So the videos for most sessions are pre-recorded.
JASON GRIFFEY: This means that they will kick off and we will watch them all together. But they are pre-programmed. So if you show up a few minutes late, you'll miss the introduction of a thing. We did build in time between sessions. So there's plenty of time for you to move from platform to platform. But it bears noting that everything will start precisely at the time that it is scheduled to start.
JASON GRIFFEY: When you click through to a session, you will see a video page. That page will have a not started yet if you're there a little bit too early. But mostly you will see a join screening link. Once the time comes for the top of the hour or the half hour, whenever the session starts, the video will autoplay. Below the video, there will be a transcript. Every session has a full transcript so that you can follow along very easily.
JASON GRIFFEY: On the right of the video interface is a chat we will have during the sessions. That chat will be filled with both moderator, the speakers, the attendees, and the NISO staff member for the session. So we will have lots of animated discussion there for people to take part in while the pre-recorded content is going on. After the content ends, we will all move for that session into a Zoom experience where we'll have a conversation, as Todd had described earlier.
JASON GRIFFEY: We'll have the ability to talk about the topics, to work through problems around the topics, and to move into breakout rooms where we can have small group discussions about particular aspects of the topics. So we're hoping that this sort of combination of tools gives us the ability to have a rich and detailed experience, not exactly like we're together in person, but we're trying to make sure that the conversations are rich and flow freely.
JASON GRIFFEY: We also have a sort of dedicated social space where if you'd like to meet up with friends and just talk, if you'd like to see who's available, who's around in the conference, if you'd like to play a game-- there are some games-- or go to the relaxation room and watch cute animal videos. We have a space that we've designed just for the conference. This is Gather Town.
JASON GRIFFEY: It's very interesting. It's a super interesting experience. There's some assistance and help on the slide there. But if you'd like to explore that, that is open the entirety of the conference. We will have this space open 24/7 through the end of the week. So you can go there and see and visit with other people in the conference.
JASON GRIFFEY: We will also have a couple of dedicated social events there that you can partake in. So I've mentioned Discourse. If you have not yet signed up for Discourse, there is a link hidden in this QR code that you can snap with a mobile device and be taken to a sign up page for Discourse. Again, if you don't get it right now, go back and download the slides, and you'll be able to get to it that way.
JASON GRIFFEY: The social events. We have three dedicated social events for the conference. We have a Jeopardy game, which will be going on later this evening-- or evening here in the US at least-- that is sponsored by Figshare. That is a Jeopardy game dedicated to standards. So come and see what that's like. It's going to be super fun.
JASON GRIFFEY: We have an art experience that is sponsored by EBSCO. That's going to be taking place in Gather Town on Tuesday US time. And then we have a cocktail bocktail hour that is sponsored by Crossref. And that will be taking place on Wednesday. If you need help at any point during the conference, there are a couple of generic IT help steps. One, try a different browser.
JASON GRIFFEY: Two, check the schedule and make sure that you clicked the right link. But we do have a dedicated team of people to help you if you have problems. So if you visit niso.plus/help, that will get you the help that you need. We're happy to make sure that the experience is good for you. If you'd like to stay in touch with NISO after the fact-- after everything is over-- we do have the ability, obviously.
JASON GRIFFEY: We have a number of informational listservs. We have a lot of ways that we can keep the conversation going long term. And again, you can get to this after the fact if you'd like. And finally, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And your participation is going to be what makes the difference in the success of the conference.
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