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“The Future of Personal Digital Archiving: Defining the Research Agendas”

Diane Goldenberg-Hart — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:20:31 +0000

Clifford A. Lynch, “The Future of Personal Digital Archiving: Defining the Research Agendas,” Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage, edited by Donald T. Hawkins. Information Today, 2013. (PDF)
Use of this chapter is for noncommercial purposes only. The volume is available for purchase from http://books.infotoday.com/books/Personal-Archiving.shtml

Feb. 28, 2012: Personal Archiving, AAAS, Learning Analytics, & More

diane — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:38:16 +0000

20120228-CNI-Conversations
[32 min.]

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.

Presentation at the Personal Digital Archiving Conference

diane — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:49:09 +0000

Clifford A. Lynch, Presentation at the Personal Digital Archiving conference at the Internet Archive, February 24-25, 2011. Conference Chair: Jeff Ubois. Video available from the Internet Archive.

“As Lives Are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations”

diane — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:05:08 +0000

Clifford A. Lynch, “As Lives Are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations,” presented at the Spring 2010 CNI Membership Meeting, April 12-13, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. Video available via CNI’s YouTube channel, and at vimeo.com/11697877.
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As Lives Are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations

diane — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:39:12 +0000

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

There has been a good deal of descriptive analysis in recent years of the ways in which personal life histories are being documented in digital forms. This session will include a brief review some of these developments, followed by a conversation (building on the discussions at the February 16, 2010, Symposium on Personal Archiving, organized by Jeff Ubois and hosted by the Internet Archive) about the implications of these developments for the practices of cultural memory organizations.

http://www.personalarchiving.com/
http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/files/digital-lives-synthesis02-1.pdf

TechLens: Exploring the Use of Recommenders to Support Users of Digital Libraries

Brendan O'Connell — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:30:56 +0000

Joseph A. Konstan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota

Nishikant Kapoor
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
University of Minnesota

Sean M. McNee
Ph.D. Student, Computer and Information Sciences
University of Minnesota

John T. Butler
Director, Digital Library Development Laboratory
University of Minnesota

Recommender systems are tools that use ratings, opinions, or actions from a community to help individuals find information or products of interest to them. While recommenders have been most prominent in electronic commerce and entertainment, we have shown in prior research that the same techniques can be used to exploit citation data to help library users discover papers of interest. In this briefing, we will demonstrate technology and interfaces through which such recommendations can be used to help users build reading lists, enhance their bibliographies, and perform other tasks related to the use of a digital library. We also will present for discussion a variety of applications of recommender technology to serve library users, along with some of the key challenges that exist in realizing such applications. Finally, while all of our current work uses fully public data, we recognize the tremendous potential of incorporating personal bibliographies; accordingly, we plan to raise the issues of personal privacy, and engage in discussions about the nature of voluntary informed consent needed to ethically put such tools at the disposal of users.

http://www.grouplens.org/

Handout (PDF)

PowerPoint Presentations

Toward A Digital-Based Information Management Practice

Brendan O'Connell — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:25:33 +0000

Avra S. Michelson
Principal, Information Management
MITRE Corporation

Michael Olson
Distributed Systems Principal Engineer
MITRE Corporation

This project briefing will report on a special initiative by the MITRE Corporation’s Information Technology Center to explore the unique aspects of the information management challenge in the digital world. The last 30 years have witnessed an evolution from paper to digital environments, yet little has changed in our approach to managing information. While paper persists as a medium of convenience, the dominant means of storing, retrieving, and managing information occurs within the digital environment. What does the transition to the digital environment imply about the efficacy of information management practices in use today that largely were derived from the paper-based world?

Appreciating that information management practices are not static but change over time, our objective is to stimulate a broad re-examination of information management practices in the digital age. Toward this end, we will present our understanding of digital information management, current approaches for addressing the challenges, and the limitations of those approaches. We will also present initial thoughts on “next generation” information management, including a set of life cycle processes, guiding principles, and areas in greatest need of focused research. This work is exploratory in nature and we invite your feedback and contributions.

PowerPoint Presentations

“Post-DL Research Agenda”

diane — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:59:56 +0000

Clifford A. Lynch, “Reflections Towards the Development of a ‘Post-DL’ Research Agenda,” Wave of the Future: NSF Post Digital Libraries Future Workshop, Chatham, Massachusetts, June 15-17, 2003. (HTML)