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Workshop on Archiving Experiments, May 25-26, Utah
May 25, 2010
Our colleague Anita de Waard from Elsevier Labs sent me an announcement for a very interesting NSF-sponsored workshop on the archiving of scientific experiments, which has clear links to scientific data management and the ability to reproduce experiments. There are workshop materials on the site, and they are also streaming the workshop live today and tomorrow. I don’t know if the video streams will be saved and available later on demand.
My apologies for posting this so late: I hope it will still be useful to CNI-announce & CNI News readers. I’ll put out a further announcement when the workshop report is available.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Hello! This is an announcement of the live-video Webcast for the upcoming Archive ’10 workshop.
Archive ’10, the NSF Workshop on Archiving Experiments to Raise Scientific Standards, will be held next week, Tue-Wed May 25-26, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The workshop sessions will be broadcast live over the Internet. To view the video broadcast, visit the following URL:
http://stream.utah.edu/m/show_clip.php?c=c9ffb6d68caab924839
The workshop will run approximately:
8:30 AM — 5:30 PM MDT on Tuesday, May 25, and
8:30 AM — 12:00 PM MDT on Wednesday, May 26.
See the following Web pages for workshop info and the workshop schedule:
http://users.emulab.net/trac/archive10/wiki
http://users.emulab.net/trac/archive10/wiki/WorkshopSchedule
Thank you for your interest in the Archive ’10 workshop!
Best wishes -
Mary Hall and Eric Eide
Archive ’10 Workshop Organizers
archive10-oc@flux.utah.edu
NRC Board on Research Data and Information Symposium, June 3, 2010
May 24, 2010
Paul Uhlir has asked me to share this invitation to a very interesting symposium that’s being held in conjunction with the US National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information’s meeting on June 3 and 4 in Washington DC. Some of you may recall that Paul gave a CNI briefing recently on the work of the Board, which is involved in many policy areas related to research data management that are central to the CNI agenda; you can find extensive background on the Board’s work at http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Dear Colleagues,
Below is an invitation to a public symposium organized by the NRC Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). Please distribute this invitation to others you think may be interested. Additional information about the meeting logistics may be found at: clevey.
Thanks,
Paul Uhlir
Director, BRDI
INVITATION
THE CHANGING ROLE OF LIBRARIES
IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH DATA ACTIVITIES
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the
Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00-6:15 p.m.
USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor
1800 M Street NW, South Lobby
In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the role of different libraries in the federal government, university, and research institute context with regard to the potential long-term preservation, management, and provision of scientific data, and related support of services and applications for publicly-funded research. This has come at a time of rapid technological change, an enormous and accelerating increase in the amount of scientific data that is being generated, and intense financial pressures on libraries.
The institutional roles of libraries in the management and support of scientific data activities for research and for the broader society are one important area of focus for the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information. Three of the Board’s sponsors are major federal library organizations-the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services-and they each provide a different role and perspective concerning these issues.
The Board’s public symposium on the afternoon of 3 June 2010 will feature presentations on this set of topics by senior managers from these three federal library organizations, as well as from the Association of Research Libraries, which has examined the role of libraries for research data in some depth and whose members are institutions with a great deal at stake in this debate. The symposium will conclude with comments by two Board members, a university professor and researcher working in the data-intensive field of geographic information and a university professor of information science. The symposium will be moderated by Prof. Michael Lesk, Chair of the Board on Research Data and Information.
Moderator: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Speakers:
Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress
Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine
Joyce Ray, Institute for Museum and Library Services
Karla Strieb, Association of Research Libraries
Michael Goodchild, UC, Santa Barbara
Christine Borgman, UC, Los Angeles
Panel Discussion of Invited Speakers and Board Members
and
General discussion with the audience
USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, South Lobby, 1800 M Street NW, Washington, DC
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM
The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required because of space limitations.
RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey@nas.edu.
For additional information, visit
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir@nas.edu or 202-334-1531.
Reminder: Register for May 27 CNI Conversations
May 24, 2010
Register now for the May 27 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org to register for the call.
About CNI Conversations
CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).
For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.
Digital Govt. Info – Best Practices Exchange 2010
May 21, 2010
This is a great opportunity for members of the CNI community involved in digital government information.
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THE PROGRAM
The Best Practices Exchange (www.bpexchange.org/2010/) is an informal gathering of practitioners working to create systems to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital government information. The Exchange provides an opportunity for them to discuss their real-world experiences, including best practices and lessons learned. Past attendees include librarians, archivists, information technologists, educators, and researchers.
BPE 2010 will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, 29 September through 1 October. The program includes keynote addresses by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress and the leader of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
Exchange sessions — the heart of the program — feature two or three individuals sharing their experiences and ideas about how to manage digital collections. Presentations are typically fifteen to twenty minutes, followed by informal, collaborative discussions with other practitioners.
Don’t let a lack of funding keep you from participating! Due to the generous support of the Library of Congress, National Digital Information and Infrastructure Program, there is no registration fee and some meals are provided. A limited number of scholarships that cover three nights in the conference hotel are available for those who make presentations.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Individuals are invited to propose presentations that will spark participant discussion in four areas.
1. New ways of working
The advent of new tools and new media suggest that libraries and archives will have to develop new ways of working in order to take advantage of them. What you are doing and what should our professions be doing to meet these new opportunities? Topics could include: innovative collaborations; new skills; strategic plans and prioritization; education and outreach; and evaluation and measurement.
2. New tools
Are you using or developing a new tool? Are you using an “old” tool in a new way? This is the chance to show off the newest tools, share creative uses for “old” favorites and pass on tips and tricks. Rapidly evolving technologies are allowing for automation, collaboration and innovation. Sessions in this track can be more “show and tell” like than those in other tracks, but actual demonstrations aren’t required.
3. New media
More and more of the content people are creating, and which we will have to manage, is new to us. What are the expectations and the models? Who is creating what and how will archives adapt to the changes technology continually introduces? This track will focus on the collection and preservation of social media, the rising use of digital audio and video, and complex, evolving records types such as content from geographic information systems.
4. Policy and Administration
All our activities take place in an administrative, legal and fiscal context. This track will spotlight the challenges involved in designing, developing and managing programs for the long-term sustainability of digital objects. Potential topics could include ensuring program and project transparency; finding and maintaining funding sources; achieving procedural accountability for a trusted digital repository; collaboration; supporting and developing partnerships; and developing and maintaining institutional policy and procedures.
As the digital preservation is changing constantly and those working in the field are always coming up with new ideas, a fifth track is available for other topics. If you have a great idea, we want to hear about it.
PROPOSALS
Proposals should include a 200-500 word abstract, the proposed track (if applicable), and the name, title, and organization of each presenter. Please send all proposals to bpexchange.org by 30 June 2010. The Committee will respond to all proposals by 1 August. Submit proposals online atwww.bpexchange.org/2010/call.php.
Academic Commons Newsletter
May 20, 2010
I’m passing along this announcement from the editors of the Academic Commons Newsletter. The Academic Commons is an initiative involving those interested in teaching, learning, and technology in the liberal arts college community. There are a number of interesting studies here (see below). Full disclosure – I am on their advisory board.
Joan Lippincott
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We are excited to announce publication of the May 2010 issue of Academic Commons (http://academiccommons.org) .
“Advancing Towards Liberal Arts 3.0″ is available online now. This issue marks the second installment in a new collaboration between Academic Commons and the National Institute for Technology in the Liberal Arts (NITLE). Here you’ll find profiles of innovative projects taking place on NITLE-member campuses, written by the people who made them happen.
You’ll learn about:
* How librarians at five Illinois institutions worked with anthropologists to conduct an ethnographic study of undergraduate students’ research processes
* A free, online language exchange community that allows faculty to easily include target language conversation with native speakers in the classroom
* Using Second Life as a means to simulate a Plato’s Cave and deepen students’ understanding of the text
* How a small college in Vermont developed brought trans-national dialogues into the undergraduate curriculum and enabled their students to learn with and from students in different countries and cultures.
VIVO – National Conference and CNI conference video
May 20, 2010
If your institution is interested in increasing linkages among researchers, you might want to check out the VIVO project. The project organizers are offering a conference in August. We have had 2 sessions on the VIVO project at CNI meetings – one in 2007 when it was initially developed at Cornell, and one at our last meeting in April. Video from that session “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists” is available at:
or
http://www.vimeo.com/11345580
Joan Lippincott
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Announcing the first annual
National VIVO Conference:
Enabling National Networking of Scientists
August 12-13, 2010
New York Hall of Science
The first annual National VIVO Conference, Enabling National Networking of Scientists, will bring together scientists, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students and those supporting the development of team science. This two day conference will begin with workshops and tutorials for those new to VIVO, those implementing VIVO at their institutions, and those wishing to develop applications using VIVO. Invited speakers will present regarding the Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and the role of VIVO in support of team science. Panelists will discuss adoption and implementation findings. Feedback sessions will engage participants in requirements gathering and brainstorming regarding future network services. Presenters will discuss mapping, social networking, crowd sourcing, support for societies and other national network applications. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org/conference.
VIVO is an open source, open ontology, research discovery platform for hosting information about scientists, their interests, activities, and accomplishments. VIVO supports open development and integration of science through simple, standard semantic web technologies. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org. VIVO is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822.
JISC Keeping Research Data Safe 2 Final Report
May 17, 2010
JISC has just released the final report of a major study of the costs of preserving research data. The details are below.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available from the JISC website. This KRDS2 study report presents the results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further development of the KRDS activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs. The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles Beagrie Ltd. and associates.
KRDS2 has delivered the following:
· A survey of cost information for digital preservation, collating and making available 13 survey responses for different cost datasets;
· The KRDS activity model has been reviewed and its presentation and usability enhanced;
· Cost information for four organisations (the Archaeology Data Service; National Digital Archive of Datasets; UK Data Archive; and University of Oxford) has been analysed in depth and presented in case studies;
· A benefits framework has been produced and illustrated with two benefit case studies from the National Crystallography Service at Southampton University and the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.
One of the key findings on the long-term costs of digital preservation for research data was that the cost of archiving activities (archival storage and preservation planning and actions) is consistently a very small proportion of the overall costs and significantly lower than the costs of acquisition/ingest or access activities for all the case studies in KRDS2. As an example the respective activity staff costs for the Archaeology Data Service are Access (c.31%), Outreach/Acquisition/Ingest (c.55%), Archiving (c.15%).This confirms and supports a preliminary finding in KRDS1.
Full URL:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads
A range of supplementary materials in support of this report have also been made available on the KRDS project website. This includes the ULCC Excel Cost Spreadsheet for the NDAD service together with a Guide to Interpreting and Using the NDAD Cost Spreadsheet. The NDAD Cost Spreadsheet has previously been used as an exercise in digital preservation training events and may be particularly useful in training covering digital preservation costs. The accompanying Guide provides guidance to those wishing to understand and experiment with the spreadsheet.
Neil Grindley
Programme Manager
Digital Preservation & Records Management
1st Floor Brettenham House (South)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
tel: 0203 006 6059
email: n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk
More on NSF Policy Changes on Data Management Plans
May 13, 2010
NSF has issued a press release addressing the discussions at last week’s National Science Board meeting regarding upcoming requirements for data management plans. See
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116928&org=NSF&from=news
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Pew Report on the Fate of the Semantic Web
May 12, 2010
One of the questions that I hear regularly, and is really difficult to answer, has to do with the prospects for the Semantic Web. The Pew Internet and American Life Project has recently issued a report that complies a substantial number of well-informed views on this issue. The report, and ancillary materials, can be found at:
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx
For what it’s worth, my reading is that respondents are fairly evenly split, with a few more doubters than believers in terms of the impact on the majority of internet users in the next ten years. Although, of course, there’s more to the Semantic Web vision than that, and impact can be both direct and indirect.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Lynch Lectures on Scholarship, Cultural Memory, Citizen Humanities
May 12, 2010
Recordings of two lectures by CNI’s Executive Director Clifford Lynch are now available:
Video of Clifford Lynch’s talk, Scholarship, Cultural Memory and Libraries in the 21st Century, presented in April 2010 at The Catholic University of America as the Twentieth Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture, can be viewed at:
http://live.cua.edu/ACADEMICS/SLIS/StoneLecture.cfm
In June 2009, Clifford spoke at the International Society for Knowledge Organization’s Content Architecture Conference. The recording of his keynote address, e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring is accessible from:
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm
