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Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meeting

June 1, 2011

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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May 20, 2011: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collection, ORCID, and More

May 23, 2011

Audio Recording [mp3 17:50 min.]
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.

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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Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Resource

March 30, 2011

Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Resource, presented at NERCOMP 2011, held March 28-30, 2011 in Providence, RI. Listen to the podcast See the EDUCAUSE post.

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March 18, 2011: Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, and Self-Destructing Ebooks

March 21, 2011

Audio Recording [mp3 30:15 min.]
March 15, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a report on peer review from Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive, and Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence.  Cliff also comments on auto-destructing ebooks and the Digital Public Library of America.

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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Podcasts: Recommender Services, Blogs in Scholarship, More

March 17, 2011

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
http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI10-grant.mp3

Cliff Lynch’s opening address
http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101213_MMF10_Opening_CLynch.mp3

Daniel Cohen’s talk, The Ivory Tower and the Open Web
http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101214_MMF10_Closing_DCohen.mp3

Project briefing, Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101214_PBF10_Cyberinfrastructure_SJackson.mp3

Project briefing, Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls… Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption? http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101213_PBF10_Linked_Open_Data_KCNegulescu.mp3

Project briefing, NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives
http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101213_PBF10_NSF_Guidelines_SGoldstein.mp3

Project briefing, Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage
http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CNI_101214_PBF10_Forensics_MKirschenbaum.mp3

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March 3, 2011: Preview of CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting

March 3, 2011

Audio Recording [mp3 18:26 min.]
March 3, 2011

In the March 3, 2011 podcast, Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, provide a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting (http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring), including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings.  Cliff also talks about the session he will present on the e-book, which will include a look back at his 2001 article “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6), an analysis of how the issues have played out in the decade since the piece first appeared, and a consideration of where they are headed.

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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Feb. 17, 2011

February 22, 2011

Audio Recording [mp3 26:52 min.]
February 17, 2011

In the February 17, 2011 podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch talks about the Paul Evan Peters Award, to be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman at CNI’s spring meeting on April 4 in San Diego, CA; Borgman will present the Peters Lecture at that time.  Cliff also makes note of a recent announcement made by the California Digital Library and partners regarding data management plans.

Both Cliff and Joan Lippincott, CNI associate director, discuss the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) meeting in Washington, DC and the 2011 Horizon Report.

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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February 10, 2011

February 14, 2011

Audio Recording [mp3 21:12 min.] February 10, 2011

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format.  The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast.

In the February 10, 2011 podcast, Cliff talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) call for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020.  Cliff also discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving conference, as well as issues surrounding e-books.

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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Podcasts from CNI’s Fall 2010 Meeting

January 4, 2011

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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December 2010

December 16, 2010

Audio Recording [mp3 35:03 min.] December 16, 2010

The Dec. 2010 session of CNI Conversations featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch.  Cliff also discussed the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the 2010-2011 CNI Program Plan, and The Next Twenty Years, a CNI project at the 20-year mark.

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