Reports & Commentary on Current Topics
from CNI Leadership in a Podcast Format
CNI Conversations
Feb. 10, 2012: Horizon Megatrends; E-Book Self-Publishing; OSTP Comments
February 14, 2012
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[37 min.]
February 10, 2012
In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses a wide range of issues:
- Mention of his conversation with David Lewis about e-textbooks
- New Media Consortium Horizon Project Megatrends Report – meeting summary
- The International Council for Science (ICSU) scenarios project
- A self-published e-book by Shelley Gehrig, I Heard the Sirens Scream
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) comments
- Long-term bit storage and economic and pricing models
- CNI’s Fall 2011 Executive Roundtable report on Risk Management and Disaster Planning
Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about sessions on assessment and on innovative student projects at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) meeting, and the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee’s program Let’s Talk Trends: A Discussion of Higher Education Trends that Influence Academic Library Services & Systems, where she served as a panelist. Joan references the following sources in her discussion:
- AAC&U 2012 Annual Meeting
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm - Documenting Uncertain Times (follow-up study to Academically Adrift)
http://highered.ssrc.org/?page_id=158 - NILOA
http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/ - NSSE
http://nsse.iub.edu/
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.
New Economic Models for E-Textbooks: Cliff Lynch Speaks with IUPUI’s David Lewis
February 7, 2012
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[29 min.]
February 7, 2012
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with David Lewis, Dean of Libraries, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) about new developments in electronic textbooks and the search for a new economic model.
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.
Jan. 18, 2012: Large Datasets, Identity, & New Digital Scholarship
January 19, 2012
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[30 min.]
January 18, 2012
In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses a wide range of issues:
- Plenary speakers for the upcoming CNI membership meeting on April 2-3 in Baltimore
- Bamboo Project
- His presentation at the National Library of Medicine on the broad array of health information and the enormous opportunities for linking and data mining
- Names and lives in the scholarly record
- The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) calls for responses to public access to articles and data generated from federally funded research
- The new National Science Board (NSB) policy document on data
- LITA’s announcement of making their key journal open access and online only
- His new position as co-chair of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) and an announcement of their first meeting
Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about digital research, teaching and learning from her experiences at the Modern Language Association conference and a campus visit to Loyola University Chicago.
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.
Nov 28, 2011: Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment
November 28, 2011
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[31 min.]
Nov. 28, 2011
Updates on issues ranging from open data to innovations in publishing to assessment were topics covered in the latest report from CNI. Clifford Lynch discusses the U.S. Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Calls for Comment on open data (http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28621) and open publications (http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28623), notes a European Knowledge Exchange paper on an action program for research data (http://www.cni.org/news/4-nation-action-program-for-research-data-a/), and describes issues related to new forms of publication and author identity discussed at the Innovation in Science Publishing conference. At the McCusker lecture at Dominican University, Lynch addressed the relationship between bibliography and biography.
Joan Lippincott summarized the recent Berlin 9 meeting (http://www.berlin9.org/), an international conference held for the first time in the US, focusing on all aspects of open access. She also provided some comments on the current emphasis on assessment in higher education and previewed a project briefing on that topic at the December CNI membership meeting. She will be joined in that session by Malcolm Brown of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and Jeanne Narum of the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC).
Cliff wrapped up by highlighting some upcoming meetings, including the upcoming CENDI meeting on repositories, which will focus on emerging developments in federal agency repositories, the International Digital Curation Conference (IDDC, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11) for which CNI is a co-sponsor, and a talk he will give at the National Library of Medicine/NIH on December 16. He reminded listeners about the CNI meeting on December 12-13 in Arlington, VA (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/).
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.
Nov 8, 2011: CNI Fall 2011 Mtg Preview
November 8, 2011
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[18 min.]
Nov. 8, 2011
In this podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch gives a preview of the project briefings (presentations) and plenary sessions scheduled for CNI’s fall 2011 membership meeting, which will take place on Dec. 12-13 in Arlington, VA. A list of sessions will be posted shortly on the meeting site at http://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2011/.
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.
Sept 6, 2011: CI for Classical Studies, Digital Scholarship Centers, Data Mgt, Cliff’s Summer Reading
September 7, 2011
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[26:46 min.]
Sept. 6, 2011
In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses some of his summer reading:
- Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima
- Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Anthony Grafton
- A new CLIR report, Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics, available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub150abst.html
Cliff also describes a range of issues related to research data management that were discussed at several summer meetings and conferences.
Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about digital scholarship centers, with an emphasis on services for graduate students.
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.
May 20, 2011: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collection, ORCID, and More
May 23, 2011
Audio Recording [mp3 17:50 min.]
May 20, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID, selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse. Cliff also shared some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.
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.
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