Datasets for Publication: Standards and Issues

Presenters

Todd Carpenter is Managing Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit membership association that fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information used in publishing, research, and learning. Throughout his career, Todd has served in a variety of roles with organizations that connected the publisher and library communities. Prior to joining NISO, Todd had been Director of Business Development with BioOne an
aggregator of online journals in the biological sciences. He has also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and The Haworth Press. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

Terri Mitton is the Data Products Project Manager at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization which is one of the largest publishers of economic statistics and policy information in the world. Terri contributed to the OECD publishing white paper, “We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables” which examines the problems with data discoverability and citations and proposes a remedy in creating industry standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking. In her role at OECD, Terri has led various initiatives to build new and improved OECD data services. Prior to joining OECD, Terri held management and project director positions at Electronic Data Systems and other consulting companies. Terri is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).