| An interview with Clifford Lynch conducted at the CNI Spring 2008 Task Force Meeting is available at connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/cnipodcastaninterviewwith/46573. A short version of the interview was featured in the monthly podcast EDUCAUSE Now, show #2: connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/educausenowshow2p2pcliffo/46583.
The 4th International Digital Curation Conference, "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?" will be held on December 1-3, 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. Full details available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008.
The 2008 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Paris, France on July 1-3, 2008. See sakai.educonference.com/conferences to submit a proposal, to register for the conference, or make a
reservation at the conference hotel.
The full report of the Section 108 Copyright Study Group and an executive summary are linked from the group's page at www.section108.gov/.
The Association of College & Research Libraries and the Library Administration and Management Association have jointly produced a Guide for Planning Higher Education Library Spaces: wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/ACRL/LAMA_Guide_for_Architects.
JISC/CNI Conference - Belfast - Registration Open: The 7th international meeting, Transforming the User Experience, will be held in Belfast on July 10-11, 2008. Further information about the meeting is available at www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/.
Report on Extremely Large Database Workshop at SLAC, Oct 2007: www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb07.
The University as Publisher: Summary of a Meeting Held at UC Berkeley on November 1, 2007: cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/university_publisher.pdf.
The Winter 2008 issue of the
Journal of Electronic Publishing (journalofelectronicpublishing.org) covers themes connecting cyberinfrastructure, scholarship and scholarly communication.
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:
SAVE THE DATES:
2008 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 8-9, 2008
2009 Spring Task Force Meeting, Minneapolis, MN -- April 8-9, 2009
2009 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 14-15
ETD 2008: The annual ETD (electronic theses and dissertations) conference will be held this year at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland on June 4-7, 2008. More information at www.rgu.ac.uk/etd/home/.
IS&T Archiving 2008 will be held June 24-27, 2008 in Berne, Switzerland. Details at www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2008/.
European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2008: The 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries will be held Sept. 14-19, 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark. See www.ecdl2008.org.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY:
A meeting between the NEH and Italy's Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) took place on October 5, 2007, to bring together US and Italian digital humanities scholars. Transcripts and presentations from this meeting are now available at www.neh.gov/DigitalHumanities/Conference_07Oct/DH_Conference.html.
Podcast interviews conducted during the Fall 2007 CNI Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC, are now available from connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastsfromcnifall2007ta/46107.
An article by Clifford Lynch, CNI Executive Director, was published in the January/February 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1, as the Policy@edu column. "Repatriation, Reconstruction, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Digital World" is now available at www.educause.edu/er.
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The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations make up CNI's