This presentation describes a wonderful project at the University of Oregon which helps students to understand the uses of primary source materials, and also to think about their own roles as creators of such materials, and as prospective contributors to the collective social record. Technology comes into play, of course, but is very much in the background in some sense. It seems to me that the ideas here can be readily adapted and used by a wide range of institutions. If you are not familiar with this project, the video of this presentation is worth watching.

Here are the details:

Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community
Andrew Bonamici, University of Oregon
Heather Briston Corrigan-Solari, University of Oregon
Kevin Hatfield, University of Oregon
Matthew Villeneuve, University of Oregon
Available from CNI’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/cnivideo
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also available from CNI’s Vimeo channel: http://www.vimeo.com/cni
(direct link is http://www.vimeo.com/11280442, if you prefer)

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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–Joan

• As Lives are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations, by CNI director Clifford Lynch
• DuraCloud: Preservation Infrastructure in the Cloud, by Andrew Woods of DuraSpace

More videos from CNI’s April membership meeting will be announced soon. Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.

http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/PodcastsfromtheCoalitionforNet/205345

The podcasts include a conversation with Ithaka research manager Roger Schonfeld, who discusses findings from his organization’s latest faculty survey, as well as a discussion on the challenges of open access with opening plenary panelist Mary Marlino, Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Library. These recordings are designed to function as an extension of the meeting, complementing the standard program, and providing an opportunity for the broader CNI community to hear from some of our key presenters and attendees.

Mark your calendars: CNI’s Spring 2011 Membership Meeting will take place on April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. As a reminder, the next membership meeting will be held on December 13-14, 2010, in Washington, DC. We look forward to seeing you there!

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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.

CNI Conversations was last held on April 15; the archived audio recording of that discussion is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). The April session included a recap of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott. Cliff also discussed the recent announcement by the Library of Congress to archive the Twitter database, an event on sustainable digital preservation held in Washington, DC on April 1st, and the e-journals summits convened by the National Academies, among other topics. Questions included the state of e-books with the advent of the iPad.

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; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. 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.

YouTube

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More videos from the spring 2010 meeting will be announced shortly. All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channels at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni . Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.

http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010a.spring/

Included are slides from plenary speaker Liz Lyon of UKOLN, as well as links to information on open access policies from opening plenary panelists. Also available are slides and papers from many project briefing sessions.

An archive of tweets related to the meeting is available at http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/cni10s. Video recordings of some sessions will be available soon – look for announcements in the coming days. Podcast interviews with selected presenters and attendees, produced by EDUCAUSE, will also be online soon. Links to all audio/visual materials related to CNI’s spring 2010 meeting will be available from the CNI Web site.

The meeting was held April 12-13, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

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; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie. 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.

The April 2010 CNI Conversations includes a recap of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott. Cliff also discusses the recent announcement by the Library of Congress to archive the Twitter database, an event on sustainable digital preservation held in Washington, DC on April 1st, and the e-journals summits convened by the National Academies. Questions include state of e-books with the advent of the iPad.