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Dec. CNI Conversations Available

December 22, 2009

An audio archive of the December CNI Conversations session 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 discussion featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott.  Cliff also discussed the 5th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the NSF-funded workshop “Scholarly Evaluation Metrics:  Opportunities and Challenges.”

About CNI Conversations:
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration.  Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations.  Dates for future events will be sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions in January; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives.  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 [at] cni [dot] org.

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Nov. CNI Conversations Available

November 23, 2009

An audio archive of the November CNI Conversations session 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 discussion featured a preview of the upcoming fall CNI member meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch.  Cliff also reported on the recent ARL/CNI special collections forum, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and a new book on the Fourth Paradigm (a collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray, edited by Tony Hey, et al, and published by Microsoft Research).  Participant questions included the revised Google Books settlement, Lawrence Lessig’s EDUCAUSE keynote on copyright, and an update on the Open Annotation Collaboration.

About CNI Conversations
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration.  Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations.  Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives.  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.

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Oct. CNI Conversations Available

October 20, 2009

An audio archive of the October CNI Conversations session is now available at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/. During that discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium. Cliff also responded to participants’ questions about the Bamboo Project, the trend for university libraries and university presses to work together, and the open access movement.

About CNI Conversations:
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives. 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.

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NDIIPP Workshop on Storage Architectures

October 7, 2009

Materials from the Workshop Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation organized by the Library of Congress NDIIPP program, held on September 22-23, 2009 are available at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/other_meetings/storage09/index.html

Note in particular the set of presentations on Data Integrity.  Each segment of the workshop included extensive discussion, and one point mentioned only in passing in the LC notes worth highlighting for the CNI community was a developing initiative within the US Federal Government and the High Performance Computing community addressing Resilient Computing — the design of systems that continue to function in useful ways even in the face of extensive component failures. Thusfar, much of the thinking in this area has focused on computational systems rather than storage systems (see, for example, the frightening report “Towards Exascale Resilience” at
http://jointlab.ncsa.illinois.edu/pubs/Toward_Exascale_Resilience.pdf and additional materials hosted at http://institutes.lanl.gov/resilience/).
These ideas are likely to be very important in future thinking about how to design digital preservation systems that minimize and constrain loss, rather than pursuing perfectly lossless systems, which are likely to be both technologically and economically unachievable at very large scale, as some of the presentations at the LC Symposium suggest.  CNI Director Clifford Lynch expanded a little bit on these ideas in the October 6, 2009 CNI Conversations (the audio file of this session is available at
http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/).

Thanks to the Library of Congess for convening these meetings; they are a great service to the community.
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Audio Archive of CNI Conversations Now Available

September 24, 2009

As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI has launched a program we are calling CNI Conversations, a series of sessions in which participants from member institutions take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others.  The first event, which was done in audio-conference format, took place on September 15, 2009 and the recorded archive of that session is now available online at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/.  In this session, discussion topics included the Google Book proposed settlement, DataNet, and library responses to the financial crisis, among other things.

Real-time participation in upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration.  Registration is open only to those at member institutions.  Dates for upcoming CNI Conversations were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representative.  We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these sessions 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.
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