Discovering scholarly information and data

Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards
March 27-28, 2008
Chapel Hill, NC
Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web systems, repositories, and other sources for this information brings the need for effective discovery — search-driven discovery and network (or browse) driven discovery — tools to the forefront. With new tools and systems emerging, however, are standards keeping pace with the next generation of tools?

Richard Akerman and my SciBling Dave Munger are among the participants. I’ll try to make it…