CNI News

The Fall 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 9-10 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. Registration materials are being sent to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Tuesday, November 12. For more information, see the meeting website:

http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via online form:

http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/f13_submit-a-proposal/

or via an e-mail message to Joan Lippincott at joan. Proposal submissions are due no later than Monday, October 21.

The Twitter hashtag for this meeting is #cni13f.

We look forward to seeing you in DC!

There’s a very nice book coming out from Information Today, edited by Donald Hawkins, which pulls together many of the key themes that have emerged from the last few Personal Digital Archiving conferences and offers a broad look at developments in this area. We have covered a number of these themes at CNI member meetings over the past few years. The book includes chapters from several people well known to the CNI community; I’m delighted to have been able to contibute a short chapter that focuses on the future research agendas for personal digital archiving .

The book is called Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. The publisher’s page for the book (including a link to order copies, which are on sale during the pre-order period) is at

http://books.infotoday.com/books/Personal-Archiving.shtml

The table of contents and the introductory chapter by Jeff Ubois of the MacArthur Foundation are at

http://www.scribd.com/doc/164023702/Personal-Archiving-Preserving-Our-Digital-Heritage

My (preprint version) chapter can be found at

http://www.cni.org/publications/cliffs-pubs/future-of-pda/

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

I wanted to share this call for comments with the broad CNI community. Preserving digital news is a very important problem, and a very hard one; the NEH-funded project that is creating this document should be a helpful step.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh) is seeking further reviews and comments on the Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. This is the first major deliverable from this three-year project (2011-2014) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to research and document a series of preservation readiness steps for digital newspaper curators. The review period end date has now been extended to September 30, 2013 so that we can receive as many comments as possible. Reviewers now have the option of requesting a PDF for offline reading (more info below).

http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/

About the Guidelines
The Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness seek to address digital preservation standards and digital newspaper technical guidelines/practices across a spectrum of readiness options. The Guidelines are geared toward improving preservation readiness for both digitized and born-digital newspaper content. We hope they will be helpful for a wide range of stakeholder institutions (including commercial news publishers), particularly traditional memory stewards such as libraries, archives, and historical societies.

How to Review
Interested digital preservation practitioners and experts/curators working in the area of managing and preserving digital news and newspapers are encouraged to review and supply online comments at their leisure between July 22-September 30, 2013. We encourage all comments to be submitted via the CommentPress form in the right sidebar (name and email address are required). Reviewers may also request a PDF for offline reading using the form on the online cover page.

As the Introduction to the Guidelines states:

We need content curators to help us understand what we’ve missed (we know there are gaps!) and what we’ve nailed. We want to know where you need more guidance and where you need less description. We want you to point us towards other resources in the field we may have missed, and above all, we want you to engage with us and with each other to make the final Guidelines as useful as they can possibly be.

Chronicles in Preservation Partners
The Chronicles in Preservation project is being led by the Educopia Institute (host for the MetaArchive Cooperative), along with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the libraries of University of North Texas, Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Boston College, and Clemson University.

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Matt Schultz
Program Manager
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
http://www.metaarchive.org
matt.schultz@metaarchive.org
616-566-3204

LSC (Learning Spaces Collaboratory) formerly known as Project Kaleidoscope or PKAL, has been offering terrific workshop on learning spaces for a number of years. You will see below the offerings for this fall, including both in-person events and webinars. Note that a major new resource, The LSC Guide to Planning & Assessing 21st Century Learning Spaces for 21st Century Learners will be available this fall. When that publication comes out, I’ll post a separate announcement. I serve on the advisory committee of the LSC.
–Joan Lippincott, CNI
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Welcome to LSC Events for Fall 2013

· What do we want our learners to become?

· How does learning happen?

· What difference does space make to learning?

· How do we know?

The LSC Guide to Planning & Assessing 21st Century Learning Spaces for 21st Century Learners will be introduced to the community this fall through a series of LSC workshops, LSC webinars and other postings.

The Guide, structured around the four questions posed above, presents institutional profiles and case studies describing how campuses of different missions and cultures addressed the challenge of shaping and reshaping spaces based on a common vision of how learning happens.

Three 2013 LSC Webinars introduce the Guide:

· September 26, 4:00 p.m. EDT: Jeanne L. Narum, Principal – LSC; John Jungck, Director of the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories – University of Delaware; John Marshall, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning – University of Michigan
Anticipating the future for 21st century learners and 21st century learning spaces: an overview of national reports that inform and challenge planners

· October 15, 4:00 p.m. EDT: Kevin Kirby, Dean, College of Informatics, Evan and Lindsay Stein Professor of Biocomputing – Northern Kentucky University

· November 6, 4:00 p.m. EST: Gabriela Weaver, Professor, Chemical Education and Physical Chemistry & Director of the Discovery Learning Research Center – Purdue University; Philip G. Knobloch, Audio Visual Services Manager – Purdue University

Previous postings related to the LSC Guide:

· Georgia Institute of Technology: Problem-driven Learning Spaces: Profile and Essay

· University of Pennsylvania Libraries: Weigle Information Commons and Education Commons: Profile and Essay

· University of Minnesota: Active Learning Classroom (ALC): Profile and Essay

Four fall LSC Workshops are opportunity for participating individuals and institutional teams to explore how learner-centered planning happens in the context of institutional stories presented in the Guide and at the host institution:

· October 12, 2013: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Olaf College – Northfield, Minnesota

· Fall 2013 (TBA)
North Carolina Central University—Raleigh, North Carolina

· November 9, 2013: 8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Florida Southern College—Lakeland, Florida

· December 7, 2013: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Richland College, Dallas, TX

Registration is now open for the ARL Fall Forum 2013, Mobilizing the Research Enterprise, to be held in Arlington, Virginia, October 10–11. The program will explore the response to the White House memorandum “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.” An opening keynote address will be presented by Richard McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University; CNI director Clifford Lynch, will moderate the panel discussion “Facilitating New Forms of Discovery.” Sessions at this year’s Fall Forum will cover a range of topics including infrastructure, discovery, policy issues, and data management/data sharing.

For details, and to register, see http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/2888-register-now-for-arl-fall-forum-mobilizing-the-research-enterprise

Stephen Wolfram has an incredible record of innovation, ranging from his early work in cellular automata through his development of Mathematica (25 years old this year), and more recently the publication of the book “A New Kind of Science” and the creation of Wolfram Alpha, a unique networked based computation and information retrieval resource.

He will be giving a public address at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress on September 4 at 11AM. Advanced registration is required. I’ve reproduced the announcement below with the link for registration. This talk will launch a series of Innovation Talks that are being sponsored by the Library of Congress FEDLINK.

I have had the opportunity to hear Wolfram on several occasions and have found him to be both fascinating and deeply thought-provoking. This is a great opportunity to hear one of the genuine innovators of our time.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Stephen Wolfram Gives First Innovation Talks Lecture at the Library of Congress

Dr. Stephen Wolfram has been invited by the Library of Congress|FEDLINK, to give the first lecture in the Innovation Talks Speakers Series. Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science. He is considered to be one of the great minds in Technology.

Innovation Talks showcase an exciting cross section of innovative research. Outstanding scholars, researchers, policy makers, and authors are invited to share their enthusiasm and knowledge on an amazing array of topics. These free public lectures provide the opportunity to hear from a diverse selection of change leaders about issues affecting our world.

Join us for the first Innovation Talks Lecture on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 11am in the Coolidge Auditorium in the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress. Each hour long lecture is followed by a question and answer period.

This lecture is free and open to the general public. However registration is required. Please click here<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GH2NNBK> to register.

New podcast interviews from EDUCAUSE feature conversations with speakers from CNI’s spring 2013 membership meeting:

“Rights, Research, Results — The Copyright Review Management System”
http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-rights-research-results-—-copyright-review-management-system

Melissa Levine is lead copyright officer and principal investigator at the University of Michigan. In this conversation she reviews the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project and considers the promise this effort holds for the future of access to electronic scholarly resources.

“Scholarly Communication — New Models For Digital Scholarship Workflows”
http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-scholarly-communication-—-new-models-digital-scholarship-workflows

Stephen M. Griffin is visiting professor and Mellon cyberscholar at the University of Pittsburgh. In this conversation, Griffin discusses approaches for effectively communicating the full range of processes and products of “digital scholarship.”

G. Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, has just published a short free e-book titled “The Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age”, discussing the efforts of memory institutions to open up their collections through information technology.

Further information and a link to the book can be found here:

http://www.si.edu/BestofBothWorlds

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The Metadata [R]evolution: Transformative Opportunities (A “Collective Insight” event, hosted by Johns Hopkins University), will take place on Sept. 18, 2013, in Baltimore, MD and via live streaming video. For more information and to register, consult the event website: http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/2013/CollectiveInsightSeries/CollectiveInsight_JohnsHopkins_130918.html

Here is the call for papers for the next International Data Curation Conference (IDCC), which will be held in San Francisco on February 24-27, 2014. Once again, CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor of this important international meeting. I hope that many CNI-announce readers will be able to join us in San Francisco.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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“Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven
transformations in research, education, business & society”
24-27 February 2014
Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA
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#idcc14
Call for Papers
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together
data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers.
The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the 9th
International Digital Curation Conference that reflect our conference
theme.
This year the IDCC will focus on how data-driven developments are
changing the world around us, recognising that the growing volume and
complexity of data provides institutions, researchers, businesses and
communities with a range of exciting opportunities and challenges. The
Conference will explore the expanding portfolio of tools and data
services, as well as the diverse skills that are essential to explore,
manage, use and benefit from valuable data assets. The programme will
reflect cultural, technical and economic perspectives and will
illustrate the progress made in this arena in recent months.
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14

The Call for Papers including a list of topics can be found at:-
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14/call-papers

IDCC14 will be organised by the Digital Curation Centre UK in
partnership with the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at
the California Digital Library and the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI).

Sent on behalf of Co-Chairs of the IDCC14 Programme Committee
Kevin Ashley – Director of the Digital Curation Centre
(DCC), Liz Lyon – Associate Director of the DCC, Patricia Cruse,
Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3), and
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)

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Bridget Robinson
Information Officer
DCC Community Development
UKOLN, University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343
Email: b.r.robinson@ukoln.ac.uk
Web site:http:www.dcc.ac.uk