CNI News

I am looking forward to seeing many of our CNI members at the Designing Libraries conference at NC State University. We have put together a program with a wide range of speakers, and if you are planning a renovation or new library facility, you will this conference to be stimulating and informative. Registration (for a fee) is limited. Hotel information is now available on the website.
–Joan Lippincott, CNI
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Registration is now open for the Second Annual Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/designing-libraries-II which will take place from October 6-8, 2013. Registration will be limited to facilitate substantive interactions with attendees and speakers during this single-track conference.

On the website you’ll find information on a technology pre-conference, tours, and conference sessions; more detail on speakers will be posted soon. The conference will be located at the new James B . Hunt Jr. Library on the campus of North Carolina State University. The conference is cosponsored by NCSU, the University of Calgary, and the Coalition for Networked Information.

For more information about the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century II conference, email us at designinglibraries@ncsu.edu.

We hope to see you in October!

Kristin Antelman
Associate Director for the Digital Library
North Carolina State University Libraries

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has just issued a call for information on software tools and analysis methods as part of their Big Data to Knowledge Initiative. Details can be found here:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HG-13-014.html

Responses are due by September 6. I hope that they will share what they learn with the broader community; this is a very interesting RFI.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Institutions that are developing ETD programs often have a need for information on a wide range of issues, from access and embargo issues (currently in the news due to the American Historical Association statement) to curatorial practices in the digital environment. A group of experts has written a set of materials addressing many aspects of ETD lifecycle management. The editors are requesting that interested parties review the documents and send comments to improve the content. I have already contributed comments and encourage all of you, whether you have existing ETD programs or are in the formative stages, to give some feedback to the editors.
–Joan Lippincott, CNI
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The ETD Lifecycle Management project (http://metaarchive.org/imls) releases for public review the draft Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and led by the University of North Texas, in partnership with the NDLTD and Educopia Institute, the ETD Lifecycle Management project is promoting best practices and improving the capacity of academic libraries to preserve ETDs for future researchers.

About the ETD Guidance Documents
Written by ETD program experts from several established and well-respected academic institutions (see below), the Guidance Documents are geared towards the full range of stakeholders in ETD programs from administrators to graduate schools to librarians to vendors. As indicated by the Table of Contents below, the Guidance Documents cover a range of curation topics that span the lifecycle for ETDs.

Table of Contents

1. Guidance Documents for the Lifecycle Management of ETDs
2. Guidelines for Implementing ETD Programs – Roles & Responsibilities
3. Guide to Access Levels & Embargoes of ETDs
4. Briefing on Copyright & Fair Use Issues in ETDs
5. Guidelines for Collecting Usage Metrics & Demonstrations of Value for ETD Programs
6. Managing the Lifecycle of ETDs: Curatorial Decisions & Practices
7. Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
8. Guide to ETD Program Planning & Cost Estimation
9. Guide to Options for ETD Programs

Review the Guidance Documents
Interested ETD stakeholders can register to receive a copy of the Guidance Documents at the following website, http://publishing.educopia.org/etd-lifecycle-guidance-documents/. By requesting the documents, reviewers are voluntarily agreeing to provide our project with feedback to help improve the documents. Reviewers may provide feedback on all of the documents or just the document(s) that prove most relevant to their areas of interest. Our project staff will follow up with reviewers individually one month from the date they receive the documents, and will incorporate their suggestions into the final draft. The review period will close on December 31st, 2013.

About the Document Authors & Editors
The Guidance Document for Lifecycle Management of ETDs have been authored by ETD program experts from the University of North Texas, Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston College, Indiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Arizona. The documents were edited by representatives from the Educopia Institute, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Special thanks to Joan Lippencott from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) for early reviews of the draft documents.

Gail McMillan
Director, Center for Digital Research & Scholarship
Services (formerly Digital Library & Archives)
Professor, University Libraries
Virginia Tech
gailmac 540-231-9252

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance has recently released its 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which can be found at

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda/index.html

This is a very valuable concise survey and agenda for high priority areas of digital stewardship; it’s also important because it reflects the wide consultation and breadth that characterizes the important leadership and coordinating work of the Alliance.

I apologize to the many CNI-announce readers who have doubtless already seen announcements of this report (or indeed contributed to its development) but I think it’s significant enough that I wanted to be sure that the entire CNI community was aware of it; those who do not follow digital stewardship developments in detail will, I believe, find the report to be a quite helpful snapshot.

I am hopeful that we will be able to have a session at the upcoming December CNI meeting to discuss this report and to further contribute to the ongoing NDSA agenda-setting efforts.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

I’d like to encourage the CNI constituency to contribute stories to this EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) project that my colleague Malcolm Brown is leading. Many of you have likely benefited from the informative and timely “7 Things You Should Know About” series that they produce, and EDUCAUSE is now looking for specific ways you and your institution have employed what you learned through a “7 Things” publication.
Joan Lippincott, CNI
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Greetings,
The ELI is preparing the 100th issue of its series 100 Things You Should Know About publication.

To prepare the issue, we are seeking stories about how folks have used the publication in the context of their work. Do you — or any of your colleagues — have a story that
–describes how you’ve made use of 7 Things;
–illustrates how others at your institution have used 7 Things;
–describes how 7 Things was useful to you or a colleague in an unexpected way;
and so forth.

What we are looking for is the short story (150 words or less) that describes how you used it and not a generic description. Hence not simply “I use it in my courses” but rather something with a bit more detail “Two years ago, I used several issues on personal digital magazines to initiate my student’s research projects.” No example, as long as it is a real story, is too trivial.

We’ll not be quoting directly, but use the story as the basis of a scenario. Anyone whose story (or stories) is selected to help form the basis of the issue will be credited as a contributors.

To see an example of such crediting, go to: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-intelligent-tutoring-systems

Please write up your story in an email and send it directly to me at mbrown.

Many thanks in advance!

Malcolm Brown
Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

EDUCAUSE<http://www.educause.edu/>
Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good
1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036

Three keynotes from the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital LIbraries, which took place in Indianapolis on July 22-26, are now available on Youtube. I had the honor of providing the opening keynote talk and was able to stay and enjoy the entire conference, which was excellent. I am also delighted that CNI was able to once again serve as a cooperation organization for the conference.

The three keynotes were:

My own, which dealt with issues about the changing nature of digital libaries and the shift to very large scale systems, and the challenges of coherence and prioritization that we face as a result of this shift.

Jill Cousins, who spoke about the development and current state of the Europeana project (including a look at important very late breaking developments)

And finally, Dave De Roure, who gave a very wide ranging talk about the implications of data intensive scholarship and implications for the future of the scholarly communications systems.

Also announced at JCDL 2013 — you will want to hold the dates for the next JCDL meeting, which will actually be joint with TPDL (the European DIgital Libraries meeting), taking place in London, England on September 8-12, 2014.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The following report will be of interest to some CNI-announce readers concerned with large scale research data management infrastructure planning.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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“Requirements for a multi-disciplinary Research Data Infrastructure”, English translation of project report published.

The objective of this project was the development of a roadmap and recommendations for a multi-disciplinary Research Data Infrastructure in Germany. The project team identified requirements for generic components of existing infrastructures and potential for cross-linking of multi-disciplinary components. The resulting analysis is based on a survey of existing and new projects and includes measures for community building. Key aspects of the analysis are the technical components of
the infrastructure, the cost model and the investigation of cross-disciplinary topics. The results of the project was discussed with experts at two national workshops in 2012 and 2013. The project consortium consisted of partners from major research organisations in Germany and reflects the multi-disciplinary approach.

<http://www.forschungsdaten.org/en/uber-radieschen/>

The English translation can be downloaded from
<http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/RADIESCHEN_009>

Best regards,

Jens Klump

The National Academies has recently released a prepublication version of a report on Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis; this is available for free downloading at

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18374

This is a really nice survey of much of the state of the art and the current issues involved in so-called big data arising in a variety of different contexts.

And just in time for those needing beach reading!

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI