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CNI News & Conversations Moving – Update Your Readers & Links!

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:36:09 +0000

CNI has launched a newly-designed Web site which incorporates the CNI News feed and the CNI Conversations podcast program. Updates and notifications will no longer be posted to this site. Please update news readers, podcatchers, and links accordingly: CNI News: Browse online at http://www.cni.org/news/ Point your newsreader or aggregator to http://www.cni.org/news/feed/ CNI Conversations: Listen online [...]

NSF Report: Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

diane — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:52:23 +0000

CNI-ANNOUNCE readers may be interested in a recently-issued report from the U.S. National Science Foundation reporting on a November 2010 workshop titled “Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age”. This takes an international perspective on issues involved in cyberinfrastructure and data intensive science. The report contains extensive appendices and background papers (some of…

NSF Report: Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:21:42 +0000

CNI-announce readers may be interested in a recently-issued report from the U.S. National Science Foundation reporting on a November 2010 workshop titled “Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age”. This takes an international perspective on issues involved in cyberinfrastructure and data intensive science. The report contains extensive appendices and background papers (some of [...]

ARL-CNI Forum on 21st-Century Collections, Oct. 1314

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:04:13 +0000

ARL and CNI will co-host the forum 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action on October 13–14 in Washington, DC, immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. The event is open to all. For preliminary information about the ...

ARL-CNI Forum on 21st-Century Collections,

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:03:30 +0000

Coming Soon: Redesigned CNI Web Site

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:40:50 +0000

CNI will be launching our newly designed Web site over Labor Day weekend. The new site will continue to offer easy access to all the information the community has come to rely on from CNI, including the latest news on pressing issues, CNI membership meeting details, and publications by CNI staff. In addition to the [...]

Coming Soon: Redesigned CNI Web Site

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:35:03 +0000

CLIR Report on Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Studies

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:27:34 +0000

CLIR has just published a major (and, at 300 pages, massive) study of cyberinfrastucture needs and developments in the area of classical studies. I’ve reproduced the announcement below. I was fortunate to be able to read a draft of this; it’s really a landmark study, and I wish that we had analysis of this depth [...]

Moore Foundation Call for Input on Data Intensive Science Investments

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:27:04 +0000

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has issued a call for community input to help guide the planning for their future investments in data-intensive science. The call is open through mid-September, 2011, and is structured through a web tool that allows both submission of new ideas and commentary on ideas that others have submitted in [...]

Moore Foundation Call for Input on Data Intensive Science

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:57:11 +0000

CLIR Report on Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Studies

diane — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:08:53 +0000

Video available – Lynch at OCLC Symposium

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:14:05 +0000

OCLC has made available a number of videos from programs at the ALA Annual Conference. Included are Cliff Lynch’s keynote at their Symposium “The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age.” Cliff’s is one of a number of stimulating presentations, including those by Brian Schottlaender of UC San Diego, Rick Anderson of University of Utah, [...]

Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data

diane — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:23:35 +0000

CNI Conversations Podcast, June 22, 2011

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Global Research Data Infrastructures Web Site

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:01:06 +0000

There’s a web site at http://www.grdi2020.eu which aggregates a wealth of interesting reports, and other materials dealing with the development of research data management in Europe and beyond. Of particular interest will be the Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures and Roadmap, which is really a broader survey that covers much more than data management, and [...]

IDCC Draft Programme now available; call for papers still open

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:00:31 +0000

I wanted to share the draft program for the International Digital Curation Conference, which is now available; see the announcement below. The call for papers is still open for another two weeks. CNI is again proud to be a co-sponsor of this important meeting. I’ll be doing a talk at the end of the first [...]

Repositories in Science & Tech Workshop 11/30/11

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:48:24 +0000

As noted below, Cliff Lynch will be the opening speaker at this workshop. ————————————————————————————————– Please excuse cross-postings. Save the Date – November 30, 2011 Repositories in Science & Technology: Preserving Access to the Record of Science A One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS Hosted by FLICC at the Library of Congress The Mumford Room, [...]

ETD 2011 – Call for Participation in 14th Int’l Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:06:29 +0000

Registration and program information are now available for the premier conference on ETDs. I will be giving a presentation on digital scholarship centers and their support for students developing ETDs. Joan Lippincott ************************* ETD2011: Call for Participation ETD2011 – 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 13-17 September 2011 Cape Town, South Africa http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011 [...]

New CNI Conversations: Digging into Data; Identifiers; BRDI Crowdsourcing Mtg

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:55:05 +0000

This latest report from CNI, recorded June 22, 2011, includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and a public symposium on crowdsourcing hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & [...]

German Information Infrastucture for Research Program

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:21:28 +0000

Earlier this week I was fortunate to be able to attend a briefing on a series of awards that the German DFG has made to support information Infrastructure for Research. These are discipline-specific and span the sciences, the social sciences, engineering and the humanities, since the DFG funding scope covers all of these disciplines. This [...]

Study on Journal Article Data Mining from Publishing Research Consortium

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:20:49 +0000

There’s a very interesting new report out on Journal Data Mining; it was prepared by Eefke Smit and Maurits van der Graaf on behalf of the Publishing Research Consortium, so it has a strong publisher perspective, but as far as I know it’s the first extensive look at the issues involved in practical and operational [...]

TPDL (formerly ECDL) 2011: Program online – Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:20:22 +0000

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed to International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will present a keynote address at [...]

CNI at ALA Annual Mtg in New Orleans

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:13:57 +0000

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans, LA, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will present the keynote address at the OCLC symposium The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age on Friday, June 24. Also at the meeting, Clifford will be part of LITA’s Top Tech Trends Panel on [...]

New Video: Data Management Plans Online

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:01:29 +0000

A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI’s channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni): Data Management Plans Online, a project briefing session presented by UCLA’s Todd Grappone and Patricia Cruse from the California Digital Library: http://youtu.be/YRsENUV-ARk More information about this presentation is available from the meeting Web [...]

Workshop on German Scientific Research Data Access, June 21, Washington DC

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:54:41 +0000

There’s a nice informational workshop organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the morning of June 21 in Washington DC; I’ll be providing some very brief comparative commentary on the situation in the United States as a reactor to the presentations. I’ve reproduced the invitation below. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ************************* You are cordially [...]

New Video: Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:59:28 +0000

A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI’s channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni): Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web, a project briefing session presented by Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory. http://youtu.be/xYVxREPvLS0 More information about this presentation is available from the [...]

McKinsey Global Institute Big Data Report

CNI RSS Manager — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:17:05 +0000

The McKinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research arm of the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm, has recently issued a report that will be of interest to some readers of CNI-Announce titled “Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity”, which reviews some of the techniques used in data-intensive scholarship, as well [...]

New CNI Conversations: Crowdsourcing & Data; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:02:48 +0000

In this 13 minute podcast, recorded June 1, 2011, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium on crowdsourcing and scientific data quality [...]

Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:34:29 +0000

Interviews conducted during the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been published by EDUCAUSE: http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/229688 The podcasts include a conversation with plenary speaker Todd Presner, founder and director of HyperCities (a GIS research and education platform built on the Google Maps and Google Earth APIs), as well as an interview with UCSD University Librarian Brian [...]

New Video: Tech. Model for Calgary’s Converged Library/Archive/Publishing Facility

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:44:02 +0000

A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI’s channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni): Creating a Comprehensive Technology Model for a Converged Library, Archive, Art and Publishing Facility at the University of Calgary, a project briefing session presented by Thomas Hickerson (Vice Provost and University Librarian, University [...]

New CNI Conversations: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collections, ORCID, and More

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:06:47 +0000

In this 18 minute podcast, recorded May 20, 2011, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID, selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse. Cliff also [...]

Resources from April 2011 Council of Independent Colleges/Johns Hopkins Symposium on the Future of the Humanities

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:09:09 +0000

I wanted to (belatedly) share the following announcement from our colleague Richard Eckman, the President of the Council of Independent Colleges of the availability of an extensive set of materials from an April 2011 Symposium on the Future of the Humanities. There’s some great material in here, and it’s wonderful to have it available for [...]

New Videos: HyperCities & E-Books

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:45:55 +0000

New videos from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been added to CNI’s channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni): • UCLA Professor Todd Presner’s plenary presentation, “HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive & Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome & Cairo” (http://youtu.be/WS-SLGAWxHY) • “E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later,” [...]

New JISC resources on maximizing web resources

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:32:36 +0000

I highly recommend these new publications from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK. They treat such hot topics as search engine optimization, building good web resources, promoting content, and using the social web for your organization’s resources. -Joan Lippincott, CNI **For Information ** Maximising the effectiveness of your online resources The proliferation [...]

Corrected: NSF Research Data Lifecycle Management Workshop, Princeton, July 18-20

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:57:42 +0000

I’m resending this, with a correction to the URL and a few other minor updates [Original posting has been removed -CNI News Editor]. Apologies. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI **************** National Science Foundation Funded Workshop on “Research Data Lifecycle Management” July 18 – July 20 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ We are pleased to announce [...]

Call for Participation: Research Data Mgt Lifecycle Workshop, Princeton, July 18-20, 2011

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:16:02 +0000

National Science Foundation Funded Workshop on “Research Data Lifecycle Management” July 18 – July 20 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ We are pleased to announce the NSF funded Workshop on “Research Data Lifecycle Management”. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, campus Information Technology (IT) leaders, and library/archive specialists to discuss [...]

Video of Christine Borgman’s Paul Peters Lecture from Spring 2011 CNI Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:01:16 +0000

Over the next few weeks we’ll be rolling out the videos from the Spring 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Member Meeting held in San Diego on April 4-5, 2011. I’m delighted to be able to announce today our first offering, which is the Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture “Information, Infrastructure and The Internet: Reflections on [...]

IT as a Strategic Campus Resource: Keynote by Cliff Lynch

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:01:29 +0000

Cliff Lynch’s keynote address Information Technology as a Strategic Campus Resource, presented at the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) 2011 conference is now available: http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/PodcastCliffLynchonInformat...

Reports from NSF Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Group Task Forces Available

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:03:12 +0000

The final versions of the six reports from the task forces established by the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure are now available. I’ve shared earlier pointers to drafts of a couple of these, but this page points to the final, “official” versions. The reports are here: http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/taskforces/ From the introductory material on the page: In [...]

Hold the Dates: EDUCAUSE-ACTI-CCI / CASC Joint Workshop on Data Lifecycle Mgt

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:23:58 +0000

I’ve been serving on the planning committee for a joint EDUCAUSE-CASC workshop on Data Lifecycle Management that will be funded by NSF; this funding is now in place, and the dates are set for July 18-20, 2011 in Princeton. See the announcement be...

New ELI 7 Things: Modern Learning Commons

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:00:15 +0000

The new EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons is now available; CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott served as an advisor on its development: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsY...

Symposium on International Scientific Data Sharing, April 18-19, Washington DC

CNI RSS Manager — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:36:11 +0000

The Board of Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the U.S. National Academies is co-sponsoring a free two-day symposium on April 18-19 on international scientific data sharing, with focus on developing countries. I’ve reproduced the announcement, agenda, and pointer to registration below. This is a great opportunity to take an in-depth look at a range [...]

Roadmap for the Spring 2011 CNI Member Meeting, San Diego, April 4-5

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:19:37 +0000

A Guide to the Spring 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting The Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel in San Diego, California on April 4 and 5, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI’s programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member [...]

CNI Meeting Update: Schedule, Abstracts Available

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:57:49 +0000

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/schedule.html Links from this page lead to session abstracts; we are continuing to add supplemental information as it becomes available. The meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) will be available for download very soon. We will [...]

Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, Self-Destructing Ebooks, More

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:29:28 +0000

The March 15, 2011 podcast of CNI Conversations includes discussion on a wide variety of topics by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, including: *a report on peer review from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) *the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive *Mac OS X Lion and implications [...]

CSHE/Mellon Peer Review Study Now Available

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:54:16 +0000

The Center for the Study for Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, has just published the report of its project on peer review and its role in academic tenure and review and in scholarly publishing. The project included both extensive background papers and also a workshop (which I was fortunate to be able [...]

Materials from Feb 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:06:04 +0000

Jeff Ubois has just sent out the following announcement of availability of the videos from the recent Personal Digital Archiving meeting hosted at the Internet Archive. One talk that I found particularly provocative and highly reccomend is the one by Daniel Reetz (it’s one up from the bottom of the list, just before my talk), [...]

Digging into Data Challenge Funding Program, Round 2

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:05:16 +0000

I wanted to share the announcement that came out earlier this week for the second round of the Digging into Data Challenge. This is a very important initiative that facilitates both international and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance the use of computational technologies for large cultural corpora. It also represents a substantial collaboration among a range [...]

Podcasts: Recommender Services, Blogs in Scholarship, More

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:30:09 +0000

AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for sessions that were video recorded at CNI’s fall 2010 meeting. Also, an interview conducted with Carl Grant, Chief LIbrarian at Ex Libris, is now available. In his conversation with EDUCAUSE’s Gerry Bayne, Carl discusses recommender services and how they compare to other search tools, social networking enhancements in libraries, [...]

Preview, CNI Spring Mtg; Ebook session by Cliff Lynch just added

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:11:24 +0000

The latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://conversations.cni.org/) provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting by Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings. Cliff also talks about his newly-added session E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later, in which he [...]

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:00:28 +0000

The draft report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging, established by the NSF’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastucture in early 2009, is now available for review and comment. This is a substantial report that looks carefully at the interconnections between campus strategies and investments on one side, and national scale initiatives on the other. I’ve [...]

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Open Repositories 2011 submissions due March 7th

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:09:24 +0000

The proposal submission deadline has been extended for the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11). This year the conference will feature a new presentation format, called “24×7 Presentations”, a block of presentations on a single theme, each of which can be no more than 24 slides or 7 minutes in length. And of course [...]

CNI Mtg Registration ENDS MONDAY

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:10:54 +0000

The registration deadline for the Spring 2011 CNI membership meeting is MONDAY, MARCH 7th. If you haven’t registered for the meeting or made arrangements for hotel accommodations, please do so by Monday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. The meeting will be held in San Diego’s [...]

CNI Spring Mtg Line-up – Plenaries & Project Briefings

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:31:18 +0000

CNI’s spring membership meeting will be held April 4-5 in San Diego, CA. The Paul Evan Peters Award will be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman, who will deliver the Peter’s Lecture: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time. Todd Presner, founder and director of the collaborative, digital mapping platform [...]

Papers on Future of Social Science Research contributed to NSF

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:25:41 +0000

Last fall, the Social, Behavorial and Economic Directorate of the US National Science Foundation issued a call to the community for papers describing opportunities for new research in the 2020 timeframe as a way of informing NSF’s development of new research programs. We had a session at the December 2010 CNI meeting where NSF provided [...]

PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory launches website

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:53:59 +0000

I’m posting below a message from Jeanne Narum, the Principal of the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory. This program has just launched its website and there is lots of information available for those of you planning learning spaces – resources (papers, presentations) as well as descriptions of upcoming events. I am pleased that CNI is a [...]

New CNI Conversations: e-textbooks, enhanced reality, more

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:25:54 +0000

In the February 17, 2011 podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch talks about the Paul Evan Peters Award, to be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman at CNI’s spring meeting on April 4 in San Diego, CA; Borgman will present the Peters’ Lecture at that time. Cliff also makes note of a recent announcement made by [...]

EDUCAUSE Live! “The Future of Fair Use” 2/25/11

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:43:54 +0000

Another excellent free webinar from our colleagues at EDUCAUSE. Don’t forget to register (instructions below). –Joan Lippincott ******************** Next Friday, EDUCAUSE Live! will consider “The Future of Fair Use”. http://www.educause.edu/live116 1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Friday, February 25. No charge, but registration required. Archived for future (re)viewing. Speaker: Steve Anderson Director, PhD Program in Media Arts [...]

2nd Research Data Access and Preservation Summit – registration open

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:23:55 +0000

CNI is a co-sponsor of this event. **************************************************** The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit Denver, CO | Hyatt Regency | March 31-April 1, 2011 http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Early Registration deadline is on or before 2/18/2011 In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information The second Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit will take [...]

Video: Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, from CNI Fall Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0000

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). In Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, MITH Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum and University of Maryland doctoral candidate Rachel Donahue present a summary of findings from the recently published CLIR report Digital Forensics and [...]

Chris Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award at April CNI Meeting, San Diego

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:31:21 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UCLA Professor Christine Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award Washington, DC – February 14, 2011 – The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that Christine L. Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los [...]

New CNI Conversations; Move to Podcast Only

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:34:41 +0000

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast. CNI Conversations continues [...]

Last Call: CNI Project Briefing Proposals due by Feb. 18

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:38:31 +0000

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting are no later than this Friday, February 19. Proposals may be submitted by email to joan, or via the online form: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/proposal.html If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please contact Joan Lippincott (joan) or me (diane). The meeting [...]

Review of UK JISC Published

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:40:26 +0000

Over the past few months, the UK Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) has been carrying out a major review of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). JISC is the organization that funds advanced networking, content licensing, and many other vital activities for the UK higher education sector; it has provided key leadership for many innovations, [...]

Science Special “Dealing with Data” Issue

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:17:08 +0000

The February 11, 2011 issue of Science has a special section titled “Dealing with Data” with a number of papers and articles covering data intensive science and data curation issues. They have set up a web site that consolidates some of the material from this issue and some related topical material from other Science journals [...]

2011 Horizon Report now available

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:36:45 +0000

The 2011 Horizon Report, a collaborative initiative of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is now available for free download from: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122 Each year the report identifies and describes key trends that a group of experts believe will have an impact on teaching, learning and creative inquiry. This year, some [...]

National Academies Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Discovery, March 10, 2011,DC

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:49:14 +0000

The Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the National Academies is presenting a Symposium on Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Network Envrionments in Washington DC on March 10, 2011. You can find the agenda and other background materials at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422 This promises to be an extremely interesting day, and there are some wonderful [...]

Reminder: CNI Project Briefing Proposals due Feb. 18

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:33:55 +0000

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting are due Friday, February 18. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/proposal.html The spring meeting will be held April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact [...]

Linked Open Data Presentation from CNI Fall Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:07:58 +0000

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls… Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption? features case studies by speakers from Cornell University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Internet Archive, as [...]

Video ‘Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact’ from CNI fall meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:09:49 +0000

CIO Sally Jackson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) discusses cyberinfrastructure impact assessment, and why it’s important, in this project briefing session, presented at CNI’s December 2010 meeting. Video of the presentation is available on both of CNI’s channels: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). For more information about the session, and for access to the presentation materials, [...]

Video of session on NSF Data Management Plans from 12/10 CNI meeting now available

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:18:09 +0000

The video of a well-attended CNI Fall meeting session on “NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives” is now available on both Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni . Serge Goldstein of Princeton and Scott Brandt of Purdue provided information on what their institutions are doing to support their researchers’ needs to include data [...]

Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015 Released

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:12:08 +0000

Following up on my recent post about “The New Renaissance” report on digital cultural heritage in the European context, I wanted to share this recent press release announcing the availability of the Strategic Plan 2011-2015 for the Europeana program. I think this will be of interest to any organization looking at strategies for capturing, organizing [...]

EDUCAUSE Live 1/21/11 on Mobile Computing & Learning

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:02:18 +0000

I know many of our cni-announce subscribers are interested in developments in the mobile environment. This webcast will describe a wide range of responses by one campus to the mobile environment. Don’t forget to register for this free EDUCAUSE event. –Joan Lippincott ******************************* Friday, January 21, EDUCAUSE Live! will discuss mobile computing at the University [...]

Open Annotation Workshop, March 24-25, 2011, Chicago

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:39 +0000

The Open Annotation Collaboration continues to move ahead, and has just announced a workshop to help validate and expand the applicability of the model that they have developed. I’ve reproduced the announcement below. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI **************************** The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce an open call for statements of interest [...]

Video of Dan Cohen’s Keynote at December 2010 CNI Meeting Available

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:04 +0000

The video of Professor Dan Cohen’s wonderful closing session “The Ivory Tower and the Open Web” is now available on both Youtube (at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni ). You can also find a copy of his presentation at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/cni_ivory_cohen.pdf This is an extremely wide-ranging presentation that I think will be of interest to [...]

European Union New Renaissance Report on Digitizing Cultural Heritage

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:51:45 +0000

There’s a very nice new report available from the wonderfully named ” Comité des Sages” (High Level Reflection Group on Bringing Europe’s Cultural Heritage Online) titled “The New Renaissance”. The report can be downloaded here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf and there’s a press release at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/17&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLang The report deals with a wide range of funding and policy issues [...]

Call for Project Briefing Proposals for CNI Spring Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:57:02 +0000

The Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 4-5 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA. Registration materials will be sent by the end of this month to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, March 7. For more information, [...]

Videos & Presentations: Follow-on from the Fall 2010 CNI Member Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:51:22 +0000

Happy New Year. We’ve now collected substantially all of the presentation materials from the fall CNI meeting and linked them to the presentation listing on the CNI web site. We are starting to roll out the videos from selected sessions. My opening plenary talk is now available both on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/channels/cni and on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo [...]

Materials from the December 2010 International Digital Curation Conference

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:50:29 +0000

Materials from the December 2010 International Digital Curation Conference are now available online; these include presentation materials, which are linked to the programme, and video of the main talks. All the links are collected here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference As I mentioned in the December 2010 CNI Conversations, two of the sessions I found most compelling were those [...]

Podcasts from CNI’s Fall 2010 Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:38:30 +0000

Many of the interviews conducted by EDUCAUSE during the Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting are now online: http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/220937 The podcasts include: * A conversation with MacKenzie Smith of MIT on linked open data and the latest from MIT’s Simile Project * 2011 initiatives planned for the Library of Congress National Digital Preservation Program from Martha [...]

CNI Conversations – Dec. podcast available

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:31:43 +0000

The podcast of the Dec. 16 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). This call featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff also discussed the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as [...]

PCAST report on US Networking and Information Technology Program

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:27:48 +0000

Yesterday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a report “Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology”; this is a very interesting look at the coordinated, collective federal government investment in advanced information and networking technology. The report can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf Clifford Lynch [...]

Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:05:58 +0000

Earlier this week at the Fall CNI Membership meeting, Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum and Rachel Donahue of the University of Maryland College Park presented their results of their study of digital forensics tools and methods in the context of curating digital materials. We’ll be making video of this presentation available online early in the new year [...]

CNI 2010-2011 Program Plan Available Online

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:04:52 +0000

The CNI 2010-2011 Program Plan, which was distributed in printed form to participants at our Fall Membership Meeting in Washington DC earlier this week, is now available online at the CNI web site, at http://www.cni.org/program/ We will also be mailing printed copies ot our member representatives. The Fall meeting was a great success; in the [...]

ARL Guide on NSF Data Sharing Policy

CNI RSS Manager — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:15:56 +0000

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a new resource for libraries supporting the recently revised NSF Data Sharing Policy. The Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy, by Patricia Hswe and Ann Holt, is a set of Web-based resources that introduces and explains the policy. Hswe and Holt also offer advice [...]

Roadmap for the Fall 2010 CNI Member Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:22:56 +0000

A Guide to the Fall 2010 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting The Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on December 13 and 14, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI’s programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and [...]

CNI Meeting Update: Schedule, Abstracts & Twitter

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:34:03 +0000

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/schedule.html Links from this page lead to session abstracts; we are continuing to add supplemental information as it becomes available. Additionally, the meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) is available for download from: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/project.html We will [...]

CNI Conversations Dec. 16 – Registration open!

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:02:28 +0000

Join us for a recap of CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting, and updates on issues of importance to the community – register now for the Dec. 16 session of CNI Conversations. The discussion will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member [...]

JEP issue: Reimagining the University Press

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:29:54 +0000

The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing explores the future of university presses, and includes a piece by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, “Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age.&#82...

CNI Conversations – November podcast available

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:55:32 +0000

The podcast of the Nov. 17 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). During this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, [...]

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NSF Report: Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

NSF Report: Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

ARL-CNI Forum on 21st-Century Collections, Oct. 1314

ARL-CNI Forum on 21st-Century Collections,

Coming Soon: Redesigned CNI Web Site

Coming Soon: Redesigned CNI Web Site

CLIR Report on Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Studies

Moore Foundation Call for Input on Data Intensive Science Investments

Moore Foundation Call for Input on Data Intensive Science

CLIR Report on Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Studies

Video available – Lynch at OCLC Symposium

Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data

Global Research Data Infrastructures Web Site

IDCC Draft Programme now available; call for papers still open

Repositories in Science & Tech Workshop 11/30/11

ETD 2011 – Call for Participation in 14th Int’l Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

New CNI Conversations: Digging into Data; Identifiers; BRDI Crowdsourcing Mtg

German Information Infrastucture for Research Program

Study on Journal Article Data Mining from Publishing Research Consortium

TPDL (formerly ECDL) 2011: Program online – Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011

CNI at ALA Annual Mtg in New Orleans

New Video: Data Management Plans Online

Workshop on German Scientific Research Data Access, June 21, Washington DC

New Video: Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web

McKinsey Global Institute Big Data Report

New CNI Conversations: Crowdsourcing & Data; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation

Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meeting

New Video: Tech. Model for Calgary’s Converged Library/Archive/Publishing Facility

New CNI Conversations: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collections, ORCID, and More

Resources from April 2011 Council of Independent Colleges/Johns Hopkins Symposium on the Future of the Humanities

New Videos: HyperCities & E-Books

New JISC resources on maximizing web resources

Corrected: NSF Research Data Lifecycle Management Workshop, Princeton, July 18-20

Call for Participation: Research Data Mgt Lifecycle Workshop, Princeton, July 18-20, 2011

Video of Christine Borgman’s Paul Peters Lecture from Spring 2011 CNI Meeting

IT as a Strategic Campus Resource: Keynote by Cliff Lynch

Reports from NSF Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Group Task Forces Available

Hold the Dates: EDUCAUSE-ACTI-CCI / CASC Joint Workshop on Data Lifecycle Mgt

New ELI 7 Things: Modern Learning Commons

Symposium on International Scientific Data Sharing, April 18-19, Washington DC

Roadmap for the Spring 2011 CNI Member Meeting, San Diego, April 4-5

CNI Meeting Update: Schedule, Abstracts Available

Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, Self-Destructing Ebooks, More

CSHE/Mellon Peer Review Study Now Available

Materials from Feb 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Meeting

Digging into Data Challenge Funding Program, Round 2

Podcasts: Recommender Services, Blogs in Scholarship, More

Preview, CNI Spring Mtg; Ebook session by Cliff Lynch just added

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Open Repositories 2011 submissions due March 7th

CNI Mtg Registration ENDS MONDAY

CNI Spring Mtg Line-up – Plenaries & Project Briefings

Papers on Future of Social Science Research contributed to NSF

PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory launches website

New CNI Conversations: e-textbooks, enhanced reality, more

EDUCAUSE Live! “The Future of Fair Use” 2/25/11

2nd Research Data Access and Preservation Summit – registration open

Video: Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, from CNI Fall Meeting

Chris Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award at April CNI Meeting, San Diego

New CNI Conversations; Move to Podcast Only

Last Call: CNI Project Briefing Proposals due by Feb. 18

Review of UK JISC Published

Science Special “Dealing with Data” Issue

2011 Horizon Report now available

National Academies Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Discovery, March 10, 2011,DC

Reminder: CNI Project Briefing Proposals due Feb. 18

Linked Open Data Presentation from CNI Fall Meeting

Video ‘Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact’ from CNI fall meeting

Video of session on NSF Data Management Plans from 12/10 CNI meeting now available

Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015 Released

EDUCAUSE Live 1/21/11 on Mobile Computing & Learning

Open Annotation Workshop, March 24-25, 2011, Chicago

Video of Dan Cohen’s Keynote at December 2010 CNI Meeting Available

European Union New Renaissance Report on Digitizing Cultural Heritage

Call for Project Briefing Proposals for CNI Spring Meeting

Videos & Presentations: Follow-on from the Fall 2010 CNI Member Meeting

Materials from the December 2010 International Digital Curation Conference

Podcasts from CNI’s Fall 2010 Meeting

ARL-CNI Forum on 21st-Century Collections, Oct. 1314