David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University

Laurel L. Haak
Executive Director
ORCID

Neil Jacobs
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure
Jisc

Dean B. Krafft
Director of Library Information Technology
Cornell University

Brian Tingle
Technical Lead
California Digital Library

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

This session will feature two related archival identity management projects: Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) and Building a National Archival Authorities Infrastructure. SNAC (2010-2014), a project to create a test bed of archival authority records and demonstrate their potential for user discovery, comprises a three-part process. First, personal, corporate, and family names (and related historical data) are extracted from finding aids (descriptions of archival records). Next, these names and data are assembled into contextual authority records, which are compared against each other, and against authority and historical data from other sources (e.g. VIAF and DBpedia). The resulting set of authority records serves as the basis of a prototype interface that provides integrated access (through the names and descriptions of people) to related but distributed primary and secondary resources. By virtue of the connections displayed between authority records and related sources, the prototype also provides a visualization of the historical social networks in which the people depicted lived and worked.

Among the primary objectives of the Building a National Archival Authorities Infrastructure (2011-2013) project is to transform the groundwork completed by SNAC into a sustainable national archival authorities cooperative program that is similar to, but distinct from, the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO). The project has convened a series of meetings comprising archivists, librarians, scholars, and allied professionals, with the goal of developing a blueprint for the cooperative. The emerging consensus from these meetings is that the National Archives and Records Administration will host the cooperative, collaborating with the archival and allied communities in its governance, development, and maintenance.

 http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/search
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/NAAC_index.html

This update from CNI leadership includes discussion of several recent conferences:  the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution, an ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) Outreach Meeting, the “Designing Libraries for the 21st Century” conference in Calgary, and others.

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 session will provide updates on the continued rapid growth of federated identity, including assurance profiles, integration with social identity, federal government activities, research and scholarship attribute bundles, and interfederation. It will also include coverage of some emerging discussions on integrating scholarly identity into the mix, including author identities, scholarly publishing records, trusted citations, and access controls on research databases, as well as some anticipated developments in the next year that might result in tighter integration of these efforts.

http://www.incommon.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.

Amy Brand
Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments
Harvard University

The name ambiguity problem in attribution of scholarship is one that can only be solved collaboratively, when all stakeholders agree on a standard identification scheme. The ORCID initiative was launched in 2010 to address this problem by bringing together universities, publishers, funding bodies, and other organizations in the scholarly communications space to create a global, open registry of unique, persistent identifiers for individual researchers, and a transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other author identifier schemes. ORCIDs linked to publications and other artifacts of scholarship promise to enhance the research discovery process, streamline management of grants and researcher profile data, and simplify mechanisms for output and impact tracking. This project briefing will cover recent ORCID developments, including the Phase 1 system launch scheduled for early 2012, the National Science Foundation EAGER award to fund research at the University of Chicago and Harvard University to examine ORCID’s role in advancing the science of science policy, and ORCID’s planned membership and sustainability models.

http://orcid.org

Presentation

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.

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.