WikiCite 2018 is a 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an open infrastructure for research, education, and information quality across the web. The ISSN IC Head of Information systems will make a presentation about the new ISSN Portal and investigate further cooperation with Wikidata.
ISSN IC @ International Seminar about Scholarly communication in the humanities and social sciences (Lille, November 28th, 2018)
Lille University and research centres GERiiCO and CIREL are organising a one-day seminar about scholarly communication in Lille on Nov. 28th, 2018. The Director of the ISSN IC will make a presentation about predatory journals and the future of open science. The program is available at https://geriico-recherche.univ-lille3.fr .
ISSN and URN: Moving forward!
Juha Hakala, Senior advisor at The National Library of Finland, chair of ISO/TC 46/SC 4 on Technical interoperability and author of various IETF RFCs on the use of URN for the resolution of bibliographic identifiers (NBNs, ISBNs, ISSNs : …) is hosted by the ISSN IC for a two-day working session (November 20-21, 2018) on the practical implementation of URN resolution for ISSNs (https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/issn).