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Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics
November 4, 2009
CNI director Clifford Lynch will moderate the closing panel of this workshop, to take place the day after the fall CNI meeting.
Registration is now open for “Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges,” a one-day NSF-funded workshop that will take place in the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel on Wednesday, December 16th 2009. Participation in this workshop is limited to 50 people. Registration is free at http://informatics.indiana.edu/scholmet09/registration.html.
The topic of the workshop is the future of scholarly assessment approaches, including organizational, infrastructural, and community issues. The overall goal is to identify requirements for novel assessment approaches, several of which have been proposed in recent years, to become acceptable to community stakeholders including scholars, academic and research institutions, and funding agencies. The impressive group of speakers and panelists for the workshop includes representatives from each of these constituencies.
Further details are available at http://informatics.indiana.edu/scholmet09/announcement.html
Workshop organizers: Johan Bollen (jbollen@indiana.edu), Herbert Van de Sompel (hvdsomp@gmail.com) and Ying Ding (dingying@indiana.edu)
CNI Mtg Registration Reminder
November 2, 2009
The registration deadline for the Fall 2009 CNI Task Force meeting is FRIDAY, NOV. 13th. If you haven’t registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting Web site at:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/
Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate.
If you have questions about your meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held in at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel on December 14-15.
Streaming Video of “The Right to Information Access” on 10/30
October 30, 2009
CNI Director Clifford Lynch will give the talk “Rights to Knowledge and Remembering” at 2:05 EST today at Penn State’s 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy symposium, “The Right to Information Access.” The full event runs from 9am-3pm EDT. Streamed video and a complete schedule of the symposium are available:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html
CNI at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver
October 30, 2009
CNI Director Clifford Lynch will be a facilitator for the session “Initiatives from the NSF’s DataNet Program: DataONE and the Data Conservancy” on Wed. Nov. 4th, 11:40am-12:30pm in the Korbel Ballroom 1A-C at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver, Colorado next week.
Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Director, will be co-leading the Library/IT Partnerships Discussion Session on Wed., Nov. 4 from 12:40 PM – 2:10 PM in meeting room 102.
Clifford Lynch will also present a Community Update on Nov. 4th to highlight CNI’s program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will be from 4:55 PM – 6:10 PM in the Korbel Ballroom 1D. We particularly invite individuals who do not regularly attend CNI meetings to come to this introductory session.
Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/E2009.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Seeking Kilgour Award Nominations
October 21, 2009
Nominations are invited for the 2010 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2009.
The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to the development of information technologies, in particular research which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information or how information and data are manipulated and managed. The Kilgour award consists of $2,000 cash, an award citation and an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference (airfare and two nights lodging).
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/newandnoteworthy/kilgourrelease09.cfm
Oct. CNI Conversations Available
October 20, 2009
An audio archive of the October CNI Conversations session is now available at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/. During that discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium. Cliff also responded to participants’ questions about the Bamboo Project, the trend for university libraries and university presses to work together, and the open access movement.
About CNI Conversations:
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.
For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.
New Publication Dedicated to Jim Gray
October 20, 2009
A collection of essays, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, is available for download at
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/contents.aspx
The publication is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and explores his intellectual legacy in Earth and Environment, Health and Well Being, Scientific Infrastructure, and Scholarly Communication. Many of the chapters are by authors well-known within the CNI community, particularly in the Scholarly Communications section, which includes contributions by Timo Hanny, Paul Ginsparg, Herbert Van de Somple and Carl Lagoze; Cliff Lynch also contributed a chapter for this section.
Members of the CNI community are urged to look beyond the Scholarly Communications section; there are a number of important chapters on broader developments in e-science that will likely be of interest. There’s also a short interview wtih Tony Hey about the book at
(Disclosure: CNI Director Clifford Lynch serves on the Microsoft Research External Advisory Board.)
The publication is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and explores his intellectual legacy in Earth and Environment, Health and Well Being, Scientific Infrastructure, and Scholarly Communication. Many of the chapters are by authors well-known within the CNI community, particularly in the Scholarly Communications section, which includes contributions by Timo Hanny, Paul Ginsparg, Herbert Van de Somple and Carl Lagoze; Cliff Lynch also contributed a chapter for this section.
The CNI community is urged to look beyond the Scholarly Communications section; there are a number of important chapters on broader developments in e-science that will likely be of interest. There’s also a short interview wtih Tony Hey about the book at
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx
(Disclosure: CNI Director Clifford Lynch serves on the Microsoft Research External Advisory Board.)
Reminder: Project Briefing Proposals due Oct. 23
October 20, 2009
Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2009 Task Force Meeting are due Friday, October 23. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/proposal.html. The fall meeting will be held December 14-15, 2009 in Washington, DC.
If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org).
NDIIPP Workshop on Storage Architectures
October 7, 2009
Materials from the Workshop Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation organized by the Library of Congress NDIIPP program, held on September 22-23, 2009 are available at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/other_meetings/storage09/index.html
Note in particular the set of presentations on Data Integrity. Each segment of the workshop included extensive discussion, and one point mentioned only in passing in the LC notes worth highlighting for the CNI community was a developing initiative within the US Federal Government and the High Performance Computing community addressing Resilient Computing — the design of systems that continue to function in useful ways even in the face of extensive component failures. Thusfar, much of the thinking in this area has focused on computational systems rather than storage systems (see, for example, the frightening report “Towards Exascale Resilience” at
http://jointlab.ncsa.illinois.edu/pubs/Toward_Exascale_Resilience.pdf and additional materials hosted at http://institutes.lanl.gov/resilience/).
These ideas are likely to be very important in future thinking about how to design digital preservation systems that minimize and constrain loss, rather than pursuing perfectly lossless systems, which are likely to be both technologically and economically unachievable at very large scale, as some of the presentations at the LC Symposium suggest. CNI Director Clifford Lynch expanded a little bit on these ideas in the October 6, 2009 CNI Conversations (the audio file of this session is available at
http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/).
Thanks to the Library of Congess for convening these meetings; they are a great service to the community.
