Actually, when the webinar is co-sponsored by DCMI, the speaker does get a fee. I was once asked to do a webinar for NISO but refused when they seemed shocked that I even asked about a speaker fee (and their answer was "no, no payment to speakers"). Yes, this is a revenue source for NISO (just as journals are a revenue source for professional societies, even though authors receive no payment). It's a fairly common model -- deplorable, but common.
kc On 5/7/13 8:01 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > $100+ for a one hour webinar given for free by a volunteer? That's > pretty bold! > > I wonder how much NISO clears from these things given that I've received > no less than *six* copies of this spam. > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:16 AM, DCMI Announce <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > ******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** > > Join NISO/DCMI for our joint May webinar > > --Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous > Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service > --Date: May 22, 2013 > --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock: > http://bit.ly/157qF2S) > --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/ > > ========================================================================= > > ABOUT THE WEBINAR: > > VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering > researchers and research publications in the life sciences. The > service, which uses open-source software originally developed and > implemented at Cornell University, operates by harvesting data about > researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments from academic, > administrative, professional, and funding sources. Using a > built-in, editable ontology for describing things such as People, > Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a > Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and > self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity. > Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can > browse search results structured around people, research interests, > courses, publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for > re-use by other systems in a machine-readable format. > > This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library > Information Technology Services department at Cornell, where the > VIVO project was born, presents the perspective of a software > developer on the practicalities of building a high-quality > Semantic-Web search service on existing data maintained in dozens of > formats and software platforms at large, diverse institutions. The > talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic Web platform > in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the text > content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of > collaboration across institutions. > > SPEAKER: > > John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist > at Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project > team. He also consults on issues related to information technology > in higher education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, > distributed software systems and is currently working on systems > based on VIVO software for international Agricultural Information > systems communities. > > Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins. > > For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: > http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/ > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
