The closing plenary for the Fall CNI Member meeting, to be held in Arlington VA on December 12-13, 2011 will be given by Professor William Michener of the University of New Mexico, who is serving as the principal investigator for the NSF-funded DataONE project. Bill is an ecologist who has been extensively involved in ecological informatics and cyberinfrastructure. DataONE, has now emerged as the flagship program within the NSF Data Net initiative to advance scientific data curation, is a large-scale multipronged effort to address the data management lifecycle, to support discovery and reuse of data, and to support “citizen science” engagement. Bill will discuss both the DataONE effort and its implications for scientific discovery.

(Disclosure: I serve on the External Advisory Board for DataONE.)

University of Michigan President Emeritus James Duderstadt’s Plenary address on the future of higher education and the research university has been rescheduled for our Spring 2012 Member Meeting, to be held in Baltimore on April 2-3, 2012; he will open the meeting.

Both of these should be wonderful presentations that will advance our understanding of key developments in research and higher education. I look forward to seeing you at them.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The registration deadline for the Fall 2011 CNI membership meeting is THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th. If you haven’t registered for the meeting or made arrangements for hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. The meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA on Dec. 12-13; consult the meeting Web site at

http://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2011/ for accommodation details. If you have questions about your registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org.

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We looking forward to seeing you in Arlington!

I’m delighted that Professor James Duderstadt will be delivering the closing plenary at our Fall member meeting, December 12-13, in Arlington, Virginia. Jim is President Emeritus of the University of Michigan, and in recent years has been intensively involved in issues about the future of higher education and the research university in the United States and globally, and has thought deeply about ways in which technology may help to shape this future.

He chaired the US National Academies committee that authored the report “Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University” (see http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10545) and has recently been serviing on the Academies Committee on Research Universities (see http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49219) which is completing its work this year. His talk will include a discussion of some of this work. We’ll have more details on this plenary, as well as other aspects of the fall meeting, on our website at www.cni.org in the coming weeks.

This should be a plenary address that is both timely and of lasting importance, and I’m very pleased that we will be able to host it at our meeting.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 12-13 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA.  Registration materials will be sent by the middle of this month to designated member representatives.  Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, November 11.  For more information, see the meeting Web site:

http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, one hour breakout sessions which focus on a specific institutional project related to networked information or a discussion of a hot topic.  A limited number of project briefings are accepted.  Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at

http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/proposals

or via an e-mail message to Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.
The deadline for proposal submission is Friday, October 21.

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Looking forward to seeing you in Arlington!