An overview of the 2024 NISO Plus Baltimore Conference

This paper offers an overview of some of the highlights of the 2024 NISO Plus Baltimore Conference that was held February 13–February 14, 2024. While this was the fifth such conference, it was the first to be held in-person since 2020 as the following three were held in a completely virtual format due to the global impact of COVID-19. These conferences have emerged from the merger of NISO and the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) in June 2019, replacing the NFAIS Annual Conferences and offering a new, more interactive format. The ultimate goal of the NISO Plus conferences is to have a discussion, identify information industry problems and, with the collective wisdom of the speakers and audience who are representative of the information industry stakeholders, generate potential solutions that NISO or others can develop. As with prior years, there was no general topical theme (although the impact of Artificial Intelligence was a common thread throughout), but there were topics of interest for everyone working in the information ecosystem—from the practical subjects of persistent identifiers, standards, metadata, data sharing, Open Science, and Open Access to the potential future impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning.