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Workshop on German Scientific Research Data Access, June 21, Washington DC

joan — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:54:41 +0000

There’s a nice informational workshop organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the morning of June 21 in Washington DC; I’ll be providing some very brief comparative commentary on the situation in the United States as a reactor to the presentations. I’ve reproduced the invitation below.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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You are cordially invited to attend the informational workshop on Making Scientific Research Data Accessible: Current Trends and Perspectives in Germany. The event is being organized by the North America Office of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). This workshop will be held on June 21st, 2011, at the DFG North America Office located in Suite 1000 in the building at 1776 I St., NW, Washington, DC, 20006.

Making Scientific Research Data Accessible: Current Trends and Perspectives in Germany

An informational workshop

June 21st, 2011, 10 am – 12 pm

Welcome and Introduction: Dr. Max Voegler, Director, DFG North America Office

Promoting Accessibility to Research Data in Germany: Funding Initiatives, Projects and Perspectives: Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, Program Officer, Research Data, DFG Bonn

Scientific Data Management in Large University Research Projects. A Status Report: Dr. Eva Effertz, Program Officer, Research Centers Division, DFG Bonn

Response and U.S. Perspective: Dr. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Refreshments will be served.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who you think may be interested.

RSVP by June 17th, 2011 to bettina.schuffert@dfg.de or 202-729-6350
Registrations will be honored on a first-come-first-served basis.

Red line: Farragut North, Blue/orange line: Farragut West, 18th Street exit

New Video: Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web

joan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:59:28 +0000

A new 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.

http://youtu.be/xYVxREPvLS0

More information about this presentation is available from the meeting Web site, http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/.

Streaming Video of “The Right to Information Access” on 10/30

joan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

CNI Director Clifford Lynch will give the talk “Rights to Knowledge and Remembering” at 2:05 EST today at Penn State’s 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy symposium, “The Right to Information Access.” The full event runs from 9am-3pm EDT. Streamed video and a complete schedule of the symposium are available:

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html

Kaplan Instit. Penn State: Right to Info Access Program

joan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:46:48 +0000

For more information and to register, please visit:

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html

The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information
Society, and Social Policy

“The Right to Information Access”

October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium

Featuring:

* John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education,
Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author
of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005).

* Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office.
Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.

* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
(Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of
Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).

* Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and
member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of
Congress , Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the
board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable
Digital Preservation and Access.