Reports & Commentary on Current Topics
from CNI Leadership in a Podcast Format
CNI Conversations
Nov 8, 2011: CNI Fall 2011 Mtg Preview
November 8, 2011
[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.
Oct 14, 2011: eBird Global Tool, Net Gen, 21st-Century Collections, and More
October 17, 2011
[28 min.]
Oct. 14, 2011
In this podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch reports on several recent conferences:
- A plenary presentation given by Steve Kelling at the ASIS&T annual meeting on eBird (http://ebird.org/)
- The Internet2 fall meeting
- Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL), formerly European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)
http://www.tpdl2011.org/ - ARL-CNI Fall Forum 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action
http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum11/index.shtml
Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about the Net Gen and generational differences in the use of technology, and regarding assessment, the importance of knowing your use communities. Joan references the following sources in her discussion:
- NPR Story
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140813332/political-ads-target-tv-but-not-everyone-is-tuning-in
- Pew Internet & American Life report
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Cell-Phone-Texting-2011/Main-Report/How-Americans-Use-Text-Messaging.aspx?src=prc-number
- Char Booth’s blog “info-mational”
http://infomational.wordpress.com/ - Project Information Literacy. October 12, 2011 report.
http://projectinfolit.org/
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
[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.
June 22, 2011: Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data
June 23, 2011
[28:06 min.]
June 22, 2011
This latest report from CNI, recorded June 22, 2011, includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and the symposium “Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking” hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).
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
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.
March 18, 2011: Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, and Self-Destructing Ebooks
March 21, 2011
March 15, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a report on peer review from Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive, and Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence. Cliff also comments on auto-destructing ebooks and the Digital Public Library of America.
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.
March 3, 2011: Preview of CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting
March 3, 2011
March 3, 2011
In the March 3, 2011 podcast, Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, provide a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting (http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring), including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings. Cliff also talks about the session he will present on the e-book, which will include a look back at his 2001 article “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6), an analysis of how the issues have played out in the decade since the piece first appeared, and a consideration of where they are headed.
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.
Feb. 17, 2011
February 22, 2011
February 17, 2011
In the February 17, 2011 podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch talks about the Paul Evan Peters Award, to be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman at CNI’s spring meeting on April 4 in San Diego, CA; Borgman will present the Peters Lecture at that time. Cliff also makes note of a recent announcement made by the California Digital Library and partners regarding data management plans.
Both Cliff and Joan Lippincott, CNI associate director, discuss the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) meeting in Washington, DC and the 2011 Horizon Report.
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.
February 10, 2011
February 14, 2011
CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast.
In the February 10, 2011 podcast, Cliff talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) call for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020. Cliff also discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving conference, as well as issues surrounding e-books.
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.
