Dr. Vinod Chachra to Present at NISO Forum

Blacksburg, VA - Dr. Vinod Chachra, CEO of VTLS Inc. will give a presentation entitled, "Improving Discovery Systems Through Post Processing of Harvested Data" at The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) forum. The two-day forum, "Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards," will be held March 27-28, 2008 in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Chachra's presentation will discuss the harvesting process for a discovery system that covers several geographically distributed repositories. It is assumed that the repositories contain not just OPAC-based metadata, but metadata related to a variety of digital objects. Issues related to consistency, aggregation, cross-walking, faceting, knowledge bases and drilldown capabilities will be discussed.

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 tools to the forefront. The forum will include both a look at the current state of discovery tools and at new visions of what these tools might look like in the next several years.

VTLS users and anyone interested in this topic should contact VTLS Customer Services to get more information on the presentation. A copy of the Power Point presentation will be posted on the VTLS web site after the meeting.