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Video of Christine Borgman’s Paul Peters Lecture from Spring 2011 CNI Meeting

May 2, 2011

Over the next few weeks we’ll be rolling out the videos from the Spring 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Member Meeting held in San Diego on April 4-5, 2011. I’m delighted to be able to announce today our first offering, which is the Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture “Information, Infrastructure and The Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time”, given by Professor Christine Borgman of UCLA to open the meeting.

CNI’s video channels are YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni) and you can access this talk directly at

on YouTube.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Filed Under: CNI News, Cyberinfrastructure
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Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web

April 25, 2011

A video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI’s channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni):

Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web, a project briefing session presented by Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Filed Under: Digital Preservation
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HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo

April 5, 2011

HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo

Todd Presner, University of California Los Angeles

Filed Under: Digital Humanities, Social Media
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Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time

April 5, 2011
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The A-B-C-D of Open Scholarship Infrastructure: Open Access, Open Bibliography, Open Citation, Open Data (and Beyond…)

April 1, 2011

David F. Flanders
JISC Programme Manager, Digital Infrastructure Team
Joint Information Systems Committee

Coming together to share new technologies, content, and applications, there is a serious question to be asked given the potential of a World Wide Web: is the effort truly “worldwide”? Talk about the potential of easily reusing innovations worldwide is widespread, but there is still very little evidence that significant scholarly infrastructure has been built that leverages the potential of the Web. In short, are things still being done in a pre-Web way?

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), in the UK, is actively seeking international partners to start building international infrastructure components. As a priority, JISC is focusing on what can be done to innovate four key pillars in the scholarly world: open access, open bibliography, open citation and open data. This session will focus on these four international infrastructure efforts and begin to examine what has been done in these areas and what still needs to be done at an international level (so that the full potential of the World Wide Web for scholarly infrastructure can be achieved). This international effort around open scholarship is being led by the JISC’s Digital Infrastructure Team.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, Scholarly Communication
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Bringing the Library to the User: Integrating Local Web-Scale Discovery Services in ‘Non-Library Provided’ Discovery Points

April 1, 2011

Bruce Heterick
Vice President
JSTOR/Portico

Cody W. Hanson
Assistant Librarian, Library Academic Programs
Coordinator of Educational Services; Web Architect, UX Analyst
University of Minnesota

Discovery has exploded as a theme for libraries in the past several years, as the online catalog and other traditional library-provided discovery points have faced stiff competition from consumer Web search engines and their academic offerings. Recently, ‘Web-scale discovery services’ have gained increasing prominence as a possible solution for libraries in their efforts to remain relevant as a starting point for research. There is broad consensus, however, that only a small percentage of users are initiating their research at library-designated starting places, and that the library needs to pursue a more comprehensive set of solutions, which includes integrating local discovery implementations with other important research gateways.

The University of Minnesota Libraries has convened a series of task forces to investigate discoverability of library resources. Beginning in 2008, the Discoverability initiative has sought to identify important trends in user behavior both within and outside of traditional library systems, and to develop a vision for a discovery environment that encompasses internal, external, owned, licensed, and freely available information resources. The initiative has helped the organization discover that good stewardship of collections and quality service to users require not only that Web-scale discovery be brought into the library, but that access be provided to local resources through external information aggregators.

At JSTOR, a pilot program has recently been initiated in an effort to help libraries leverage the not-insignificant investments they are making in discovery services by exposing these local Web-scale discovery systems to their end-users from within the JSTOR interface. This session will include a discussion of how the pilot program works and the time frame for communicating the initial results of the pilot to the library community.

UMN Library Reports:
Discoverability Phase 1 – http://purl.umn.edu/48258
Discoverability Phase 2 – http://purl.umn.edu/99734

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, User Services
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Building from Bedrock: Tailoring Technology to Collaboration

April 1, 2011

Ken Klingenstein
Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2

After several years of broad federation development, work is now turning to connect academic research activities to this new bedrock. Groups around the world are starting to apply the emergent Internet identity infrastructure to the collaboration community that initially inspired its development. By creating open and flexible identity and access control mechanisms that integrate across the applications of a collaboration, these platforms and services are bringing new effectiveness to the academy. In the United States, a National Science Foundation-funded Internet2 middleware project is engaged in work with several major research communities to improve their identity and access management capabilities. Early work in this area has made it clear that the challenges are not in the XML, but in the S-M-XL: the sizing of the technologies to meet the needs, and capabilities, of the research groups. The suite of tools, the types of identity, the types of interfaces, the access control approaches, and modes for deployment all must be sized to fit small, medium and extra-large collaborations. This session will focus on early lessons in this tailoring.

http://www.internet2.edu/bedrock/
http://www.internet2.edu/comanage/
https://spaes.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Home

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Identity Management
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Connecting Scholars with Information, and Unlocking It!

April 1, 2011

William Gunn
Head of Academic Outreach
Mendeley Research Networks

Tim Berners-Lee has often lamented the way so much of the knowledge of the world is locked away and inaccessible to people who could build great things with it. Mendeley is working on solving a small piece of this puzzle by assembling a crowd-sourced research catalog, collecting attention metadata on article usage, and then providing this data back in a structured manner via open API. With 750,000 researchers using the service and 70 million research documents uploaded, the research catalog is approaching the scale which enables genuinely useful things to be done with the attention metadata. This session will include a demonstration of influential author prediction, paper recommendation, and an Open API. The research dataset comprising usage data on 5 million papers from 50,000 users will also be discussed.

http://mendeley.com
http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/
http://www.mendeley.com/stats/
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn/

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Economic Models, Scholarly Communication, Social Media
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Creating a Comprehensive Technology Model for a Converged Library, Archive, Art and Publishing Facility at the University of Calgary

April 1, 2011

Thomas Hickerson
Vice Provost and University Librarian
University of Calgary

Shawna Sadler
Technology Officer, Taylor Family Digital Library
University of Calgary

After three years of construction, the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) is nearing completion. The 265,000 sq. ft building at the heart of the University of Calgary central campus is the centerpiece in a $203 million project and will serve as the hub of Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR), a principal division including the university libraries, art museum and University of Calgary Press. The move into the TFDL represents both a physical and programmatic convergence for these units. This briefing will describe the development process for a $13 million technology plan, an effort to conceptualize and implement a comprehensive model for the 21st century, focused on knowledge creation, touch-enabled visual display, collaborative work, new media support and immediate and long-term flexibility. Particular technologies being employed include a visualization lab, with a high-resolution touch-wall, high-resolution microtiles, LCD walls with touch lecterns, viewing theatres, media editing suites, small and large touch tables, real-time data visualization displays, gaming areas with retrospective and contemporary consoles, video conference capabilities in student spaces, Tidebreak software, and touch-interactive instruction rooms. Consulting and technology selection processes will be detailed providing background for others facing similar challenges.

http://tfdl.ucalgary.ca

Handout (PDF)

Presentation Slides available in Keynote & PowerPoint

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Economic Models
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Creating a Digital Scholarly Edition in the Humanities

April 1, 2011

Suzanne Thorin
University Librarian and Dean of Libraries
Syracuse University

Teresa Harris
Project Coordinator
Syracuse University

Syracuse University Library’s Marcel Breuer Digital Initiative aims to create a Web interface that meets the research needs of architectural historians, designers, and the general public by bringing together material from geographically disparate archival collections related to the work of the modernist architect. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Syracuse has created a custom PHP/MySQL based database application that consolidates metadata and JPEG2000 images from SU’s collections and those of partner institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, Harvard University, and archives in Germany and the United Kingdom.

This Web application generates METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) XML objects for use in a Web portal, drawing upon the California Digital Library’s open source eXtensible Text Framework (XTF). The technical infrastructure and specifications created for the Marcel Breuer Digital Initiative can be modified easily for use with other materials and by other repositories. Syracuse University’s Special Collections Research Center intends to move all of its digital collections to this platform.

This session will present an overview of the project, describe in detail the technical infrastructure and its advantages, and discuss the technological, intellectual, and diplomatic challenges posed by this project.

Handout (PDF)

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Publishing, Scholarly Communication
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