The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) conference brings together world experts in web archiving. It is also intended for a wide audience interested in working with digital content.

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This four-hour virtual event will bring together stakeholders concerned with the improvements needed to more efficiently and effectively create and transfer metadata between information systems.

Topic: Interoperability: Enabling Better Discovery

Registration is open and free.

The Z39.4 standard, created by the NISO Criteria for Indexes Working Group and now in the process of approval as an ANSI/NISO standard, provides guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of documents and parts of documents. The motivations of this project will be discussed, as well as the expected impact, and the process followed in ensuring that the eventual ANSI/NISO standard will be as up-to-date and useful as possible. The call is free and anyone is welcome to participate.

In this program, the challenges from both a management and a technology perspective will be explored, considering how the information community can develop systems that continue to add value to scholarly communication and success.

Registration closes on June 16, 2021 09:30am

LATMÉTRICAS 2021 is a free virtual event promoted by Latmetrics and the Latin American Symposium on Metric Studies in Science and Technology, which seeks to offer a common dialogue space that allows to know the general panorama of the metrics studies of science and technology from a comprehensive and multidimensional view in Latin America. The event has the support of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC-Brasil), SciELO, Dialnet and the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). The deadline for sending short articles or posters is 30th May 2021.

Bringing together professionals from national libraries worldwide, this conference will explore the state of national library curation now, interrogating the complex challenges faced in building and interpreting collections, and the practical approaches that are being taken to address them. What does it mean to work in a national library now? What new possibilities are there for international collaboration?

The call for papers closes on 19 June 2021.

The 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation, iPRES2021, will be held at the National Science Library, in Beijing, China, and will be organized in a hybrid mode. This is the Second Call for Contributions and the Call for Participation. Please refer to the documents on the website.

A three day conference will be held from 27 to 29 April 2021, commencing with the Society Day, with a focus on non-profit and society publishers. It will be followed with the STM Spring Conference Day 2 2021, exploring the topics of cybersecurity and article sharing; finally, STM’s Innovations Day will provide an update on Standards and Technology.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting provides librarians with the opportunity to showcase their institution’s scholarly activities to the larger publishing community.

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This annual conference brings together librarians engaged in publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice.

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The preliminary programme for the Forum is available.