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Sept 6, 2011: CI for Classical Studies, Digital Scholarship Centers, Data Mgt, Cliff’s Summer Reading

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Sept. 6, 2011

In this report, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses some of his summer reading:

  • Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima
  • Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Anthony Grafton
  • A new CLIR report, Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics, available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub150abst.html

Cliff also describes a range of issues related to research data management that were discussed at several summer meetings and conferences.

Joan Lippincott, CNI’s associate director, talks about digital scholarship centers, with an emphasis on services for graduate students.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

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Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data

The June 22, 2011 report from CNI includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and the symposium “Crowdsourcing:  Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking” hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).

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June 22, 2011: Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data

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June 22, 2011
This latest report from CNI, recorded June 22, 2011, includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and the symposium “Crowdsourcing:  Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking” hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

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Yale’s digital images, open research ID, data reuse

May 20, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID,  selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse.  Cliff also shared some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.

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Interviews from CNI’s Spring 2011 Meeting

Podcast interviews from CNI’s Spring Meeting from EDUCAUSE: www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/229688

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Crowdsourcing & Data; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation

In this 13 minute podcast, recorded June 1, 2011, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium on crowdsourcing and scientific data quality presented by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information on June 13, 2011 in Washington, DC. Cliff also discusses “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation,” a meeting which took place at The National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia, on May 23-25, 2011.

Listen to the June 1 CNI Conversations: http://wp.me/pGewu-44

CNI Conversations is available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).  We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Filed Under: CNI News, Digital Preservation, E-Science, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons), Social Media
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Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meeting

Interviews conducted during the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been published by EDUCAUSE:

http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/229688

The podcasts include a conversation with plenary speaker Todd Presner, founder and director of HyperCities (a GIS research and education platform built on the Google Maps and Google Earth APIs), as well as an interview with UCSD University Librarian Brian Schottlaender on collaboration and the future of university libraries. EDUCAUSE producer Gerry Bayne spent time with a few other presenters and attendees at CNI’s spring meeting, including:

• Brian Owen (Simon Frasier Univ.), discussing the Public Knowledge Project
• Thomas Hickerson and Shawna Sadler on the Univ. of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library, a converged library, archive, art and publishing facility
• Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins Univ.) with a Data Conservancy Update
• Robert Seal (Loyola Univ.) reflects on three years of an information commons Library-ITS partnership

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.

The meeting was held April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

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Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Resource

Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Resource, presented at NERCOMP 2011, held March 28-30, 2011 in Providence, RI.

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See the EDUCAUSE post.

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Podcasts: Recommender Services, Blogs in Scholarship, More

AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for sessions that were video recorded at CNI’s fall 2010 meeting. Also, an interview conducted with Carl Grant, Chief Librarian at Ex Libris, is now available. In his conversation with EDUCAUSE’s Gerry Bayne, Carl discusses recommender services and how they compare to other search tools, social networking enhancements in libraries, privacy issues, the future of libraries, and more.

Interview with Carl Grant, Ex Libris

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Cliff Lynch’s opening address

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Daniel Cohen’s talk, The Ivory Tower and the Open Web

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Project briefing, Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact

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Project briefing, Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls… Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption?

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Project briefing, NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives

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Project briefing, Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage

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Podcasts from CNI’s Fall 2010 Meeting

Many of the interviews conducted by EDUCAUSE during the Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting are now online:

http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/220937

The podcasts include:
* A conversation with MacKenzie Smith of MIT on linked open data and the latest from MIT’s Simile Project
* 2011 initiatives planned for the Library of Congress National Digital Preservation Program from Martha Anderson and Laura Campbell
* Dean Krafft on re-imagining IT at Cornell University

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.

The meeting was held December 13-14, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

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