This update from CNI Associate Director Joan Lippincott includes a discussion of mobile technologies, including a brief discussion of the roundtable discussion that took place at CNI’s Spring 2012 Membership Meeting.  CNI Director Clifford Lynch talks about a workshop on the future of the Web.

Some examples of interesting applications of use of mobile devices mentioned in Joan’s report:

• Leafsnap is an electronic field guide being developed by researchers from Columbia U., U. MD, and the Smithsonian that uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves; it is a free mobile app.
  http://leafsnap.com/
• Wearable devices are one of the trends we are watching.  Take a look at the video on Project Glass developed at Google.  It shows someone wearing goggle-type glasses on which all kinds of information and interactions are displayed as you follow the narrator through his day.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
• If you’d like to explore some cutting edge music/art, try Cellphonia, where you can participate in sound/video installations or listen to new forms of opera.  Check out this webpage from Scot Gresham-Lancaster, a pioneer of computer network music.
  http://cellphonia.org/

Joan also mentioned a Pew Internet & American Life study, which you can access at http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Just-in-time.aspx?src=prc-newsletter

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

This update from CNI Director Clifford Lynch includes discussion of the following topics and events:

• The Obama Administration’s announcement regarding a new “big data” initiative
  (http://www.cni.org/news/administration-big-data-research-and/)
• An e-journals summit hosted by the National Academies
• Developments in scholarly identity management, author ID’s, and related matters
• A new report from JISC on text mining
  (press release, containing link to the report:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/03/textmining.aspx)
• OCLC’s study on social metadata
  (http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-01r.htm)
• The recent Sage Bionetworks  Commons Congress on bioinformatics (http://sagecongress.org/)

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

This podcast offers a preview of the CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

February 28, 2012

In this podcast, CNI Director Clifford Lynch & Associate Director Joan Lippincott report on various recent conferences & reports:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012 meeting
• Annual Personal Digital Archiving 2012 meeting
• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Conference
• New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report (http://www.nmc.org/)
• Designing Libraries for the 21st Century, conference planned at U. Calgary (see also U. Calgary Taylor Family Digital Library talk at CNI meeting http://youtu.be/F42t64f2VZQ)
• Chris Dede project EcoMobile
  http://ecomobile.gse.harvard.edu/
• SCARLET
  http://mimas.ac.uk/news/2011/08/scarlet/

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

February 10, 2012

In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses a wide range of issues:

• Mention of his conversation with David Lewis about e-textbooks
• New Media Consortium Horizon Project Megatrends Report – meeting summary
• The International Council for Science (ICSU) scenarios project
• A self-published e-book by Shelley Gehrig, I Heard the Sirens Scream
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) comments
• Long-term bit storage and economic and pricing models
• CNI’s Fall 2011 Executive Roundtable report on Risk Management and Disaster Planning

Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about sessions on assessment and on innovative student projects at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) meeting, and the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee’s program Let’s Talk Trends: A Discussion of Higher Education Trends that Influence Academic Library Services & Systems, where she served as a panelist.  Joan references the following sources in her discussion:

• AAC&U 2012 Annual Meeting
  http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm
• Documenting Uncertain Times (follow-up study to Academically Adrift)
  http://highered.ssrc.org/?page_id=158
• NILOA
  http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/
• NSSE
  http://nsse.iub.edu/

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

February 7, 2012

CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with David Lewis, Dean of Libraries, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) about new developments in electronic textbooks and the search for a new economic model.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

January 18, 2012

In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses a wide range of issues:

• Plenary speakers for the upcoming CNI membership meeting on April 2-3 in Baltimore
• Bamboo Project
• His presentation at the National Library of Medicine on the broad array of health information and the enormous opportunities for linking and data mining
• Names and lives in the scholarly record
• The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) calls for responses to public access to articles and data generated from federally funded research
• The new National Science Board (NSB) policy document on data
• LITA’s announcement of making their key journal open access and online only
• His new position as co-chair of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) and an announcement of their first meeting

Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about digital research, teaching and learning from her experiences at the Modern Language Association conference and a campus visit to Loyola University Chicago.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Nov. 28, 2011

Updates on issues ranging from open data to innovations in publishing to assessment were topics covered in the latest report from CNI.  Clifford Lynch discusses the U.S. Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Calls for Comment on open data (http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28621) and open publications (http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28623), notes a European Knowledge Exchange paper on an action program for research data (http://www.cni.org/news/4-nation-action-program-for-research-data-a/), and describes issues related to new forms of publication and author identity discussed at the Innovation in Science Publishing conference.  At the McCusker lecture at Dominican University, Lynch addressed the relationship between bibliography and biography.

Joan Lippincott summarized the recent Berlin 9 meeting (http://www.berlin9.org/), an international conference held for the first time in the US, focusing on all aspects of open access.  She also provided some comments on the current emphasis on assessment in higher education and previewed a project briefing on that topic at the December CNI membership meeting. She will be joined in that session by Malcolm Brown of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and Jeanne Narum of the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC).

Cliff wrapped up by highlighting some upcoming meetings, including the upcoming CENDI meeting on repositories, which will focus on emerging developments in federal agency repositories, the International Digital Curation Conference (IDDC, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11) for which CNI is a co-sponsor, and a talk he will give at the National Library of Medicine/NIH on December 16.  He reminded listeners about the CNI meeting on December 12-13 in Arlington, VA (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/).

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Nov. 8, 2011

In this podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch gives a preview of the project briefings (presentations) and plenary sessions scheduled for CNI’s fall 2011 membership meeting, which will take place on Dec. 12-13 in Arlington, VA.  A list of sessions will be posted shortly on the meeting site at http://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2011/.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Oct. 14, 2011

In this podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch reports on several recent conferences:

• A plenary presentation given by Steve Kelling at the ASIS&T annual meeting on eBird (http://ebird.org/)
• The Internet2 fall meeting
• Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL), formerly European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)
  http://www.tpdl2011.org/
• ARL-CNI Fall Forum 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action
  http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum11/index.shtml

Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about the Net Gen and generational differences in the use of technology, and regarding assessment, the importance of knowing your use communities.  Joan references the following sources in her discussion:

• NPR Story

  http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140813332/political-ads-target-tv-but-not-everyone-is-tuning-in

• Pew Internet & American Life report

  http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Cell-Phone-Texting-2011/Main-Report/How-Americans-Use-Text-Messaging.aspx?src=prc-number

• Char Booth’s blog “info-mational”
  http://infomational.wordpress.com/
• Project Information Literacy.  October 12, 2011 report.
  http://projectinfolit.org/

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.