NISO Plus
The sponsor of the 2022 NISO Plus scholarship program
What is OCLC?
A NISO Recommended Practice on exchange of manuscripts and a city in Saudi Arabia
What is MECA (Mecca)
An identifier for journals
What is the ISSN or International Standard Serial Number?
The latest consortium to join NISO
What is PALCI or the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation?
S2O
What is Subscribe to Open?
The recipient of the NISO’s Miles Conrad Award for 2022
Who is Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
A service that enables easy off-campus access to digital content
What is Seamless Access?
The tactile reading and writing system used by people who are visually impaired
What is Braille?
The organization that accredits NISO standards
What is the American National Standards Institute (or ANSI)?
DORA
What is the Declaration on Research Assessment?
Who is Cadmore Media?
A set of 15 metadata elements named for a city in Ohio (with an Irish name)
What is Dublin Core Metadata?
SAML
What is Security Assertion Markup Language?
The current president of the American Library Association
Who is Patty Wong?
ROR
What is the Research Organization Registry?
The location of the first NISO Plus conference
What is Baltimore?
A draft standard for standards
What is the Standards-Specific Ontology Standard (SSOS)?
An international standard of measurement that was first adopted in France in 1795
What is the metric system?
The membership organization for 165 national standards organizations
What is ISO or International Organization for Standardization?
OER
What is open education resources?
The long-standing annual conference that preceded NISO Plus?
What is the NFAIS Annual Conference?
A recently published Recommended Practice that defines metadata indicators to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content
What is NISO RP-22-2021 (or ALI - Access & License Indicators)?
A new persistent identifier for research projects, currently being standardized, developed by the Australian Research Data Commons
What is RAiD or the Research Activity Identifier?
Their job title is Internet Evangelist for Google, and they're a speaker at NISO Plus
Who is Vint Cerf?
CAPTCHA
What is a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart?