14-17 August 2016: The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at IFLA conference in Columbus -USA (booth n°E104).

On 15 August: the Open Session “The Role of Stakeholders in the New Serials World” organized by IFLA’s Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) will include two presentations by the ISSN International Centre.

On 16 August: The ISSN International Centre will participate in the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (Columbus, Ohio, August 16^th, 2016). Gaëlle Béquet, director of the ISSN International Centre, will give a presentation about its new strategy at the CDNL meeting.

The ISSN International Centre will conduct a workshop on RDA for Serials at IFLA pre-conference

The ISSN International Centre will attend the IFLA satellite meeting “RDA in the wider world” to be held in Dublin (Ohio) on August 11^th, 2016. It will notably conduct a workshop dedicated to the use of RDA for serials.

Linked data is popular these days! Two months after the conference Bibliographic metadata getting linked organized by the ISSN International Centre on April 28^th, 2016, AFNOR and the Bibliothèque nationale de France are convening a conference about Open data in libraries, archives and museums on June 24^th, 2016. Detailed agenda and practical information are online.

EDINA and the ISSN International Centre have hosted a second international workshop as part of the Keepers Extra project. The event has been held on the 6th and 7th of June 2016, at the University of London Institute in Paris.

Gaëlle Béquet will chair the next ISO TC 46 meeting which will take place in Wellington, New Zealand from 9-13th May, 2016. TC46/SC9, the subcommittee on Identification and description, will hold its plenary meeting on Wednesday 11^th May. Several representatives of ISO registration authorities (including the ISSN International Centre) will attend.

Regina Reynolds (US ISSN Centre) and Clément Oury (ISSN IC) will hold a conference about RDA, Bibframe and Serials at the National Library of France (Paris, France, 27th April 2016).

This conference is part of the BnF RDA-thon, a series of events dedicated to RDA.

Gaëlle Béquet and Clément Oury will have a meeting with the colleagues of ISSN New Zealand (Wellington) on Monday 9th May, 2016. Further to the presentation of the current situation at ISSN New Zealand, the debate will focus on the future strategy of the ISSN IC and its network. A similar meeting will be organized on Friday 13^th May, 2016 between Clément Oury and ISSN Australia (Canberra).

On April 28th, ISSN IC is organising an International Conference entitled  Bibliographic metadata getting linked: business cases and projects

By invitation only.

This conference will be available through a streaming video as from April 28th (morning) from this link: http://chronovideo.com/ISSN

Pierre Godefroy, IT Coordinator, and Nathalie Cornic, Deputy Head of the Data, Network & Standards Department, will participate in a workshop about a metadata enhancement project shared between ISSN IC and ABES. They will also attend the annual conference organised by ABES (the French Higher Education Bibliographic Agency). This event gathers national and international experts as well as 500 LIS profesionals around topics like serials cataloguing and electronic resources acquisition. 2016 general topic is: From puzzle to mosaic towards scientific and technical information.

The ISSN International Centre and EDINA (University of Edinburgh) will organize their second international workshop in Paris on the 6th and 7th of June 2016. This event forms part of the Keepers Extra project, being carried out at EDINA as a JISC investment. It will again bring together representatives of international archiving agencies, national libraries, research libraries and consortia, and other key stakeholders  who share the common goal of increasing the proportion of e-journal coverage in archiving agencies. This June 2016 workshop will represent the first activities of a shared international action agenda and form the basis of an ongoing international e-journal preservation network.