Clifford A. Lynch, JISC Inform, Issue 35, Winter 2012. Interview from Jisc/CNI workshop 2012 (www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform35/CNIandJisc.html).
Watch the video
Jisc/CNI Conference – Clifford Lynch
July 12, 2012
Interactions between libraries and technology over the past 30 years: An interview with Clifford Lynch
June 23, 2012
Clifford A. Lynch, Elke Greifeneder, Michael Seadle, (2012) “Interactions between libraries and technology over the past 30 years: An interview with Clifford Lynch 23.06.2012″, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 30 Iss: 4, p. 565-578.
Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement
March 30, 2012
Howard Besser
Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA Program
New York University
David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University
Sharon M. Leon
Director of Public Projects, Center for History & New Media
George Mason University
Archiving born-digital content from the “Occupy” movement can serve as a prototype for archiving all kinds of user-contributed content. In this presentation, several organizations will discuss the tools and methods they have developed for ingesting, preserving, and offering discovery services to large numbers of digital works where they cannot really rely on the contributors to follow standards and metadata assignment. Topics covered will range from automatic extraction of time-stamp and location metadata (and an empirical analysis of which upload services strip these out), to app development for uploading content along with permission forms, to maintaining lists of frequently-changing URL nodes for web-crawling, to issues in educating content creators in best practices. Speakers will also discuss issues in trying to document a social movement while it is happening.
http://activist-archivists.org/
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet
http://occupyarchive.org/
Presentation (Besser PPT)
Presentation (Millman PPT)
Presentation (Leon PDF)
Presentation (Hanna PPTX)
National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education
March 30, 2012
| Martin Halbert Dean of Libraries University of North Texas |
William Moen Associate Dean of Research University of North Texas |
| Rachel Frick Director, Digital Library Federation Council on library and Information Resources |
Spencer D. C. Keralis Postdoctoral Research Associate University of North Texas |
The demands of big data pose significant challenges for research institutions and academic libraries. This panel features project updates from three interrelated projects examining the data management ecosystem to determine requirements and emerging best practices in policy, graduate education, and professional enrichment. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ DataRes project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is examining the policy landscape at top research institutions across the nation. It is conducting a comprehensive investigation of the concerns of key stakeholders in the research lifecycle (including researchers, administrative officials, librarians, funding agency officials, research equipment vendors, and others) with regard to data management plan mandates from funding agencies, the long-term management of research data generated in universities, and the role of information professionals in such efforts.
The UNT College of Information’s iCAMP project, also funded by the IMLS, is developing a four course, competency-based, online graduate academic certificate program in data curation and data management for a hybrid audience of information professionals and disciplinary researchers and scholars. The Council on Library and Information Resources’ (CLIR) Sloan Foundation-funded research on scholarly practitioners in data curation has conducted an environmental scan of the state of data curation education in and out of the academy, and an anthropological study of the development needs of research professionals thrust into data curation roles. This project builds upon an existing successful program that brings scholars into libraries, the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries, to develop a rigorous training program in data curation for individuals with domain expertise, and to propose back to Sloan next steps in the implementation of a sound data management curriculum to extend the CLIR postdoctoral program into the area of data curation. Together these three projects offer both a snapshot of the current landscape of data management policy and education, and offer prescriptive insights on best practices for this rapidly evolving field.
http://txcdk-v22.unt.edu/icamp/content/icamp-project
http://datamanagement.unt.edu/
http://www.clir.org/initiatives-partnerships/data-curation
http://research.library.unt.edu/datares/
Presentation (iCamp PPTX)
Presentation (DataRes PPTX)
The Changing Landscape of Libraries
March 9, 2012
Clifford A. Lynch, Miriam A. Drake, (2012) “Clifford Lynch: The Changing Landscape of Libraries,” Information Today, Vol. 29 No. 3, p. 1-3.
Cliff Lynch on the Consumerization of IT
January 2, 2012
Clifford A. Lynch. On the Consumerization of Information Technology, by EDUCAUSE, 2012. Watch the video.
“Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age”
December 30, 2011
Clifford A. Lynch, Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age: Transforming Organizations, Roles, Communities, December 8, 2011. A keynote address presented at DISH (Digital Strategies for Heritage) 2011 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Watch the video.
Biomedical Libraries in the Next Decades: Open, Diffuse, and Very Personal
December 16, 2011
Clifford A. Lynch, Biomedical Libraries in the Next Decades: Open, Diffuse, and Very Personal, December 16, 2011. Presented in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Video available from the National Institutes of Health.
Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology
December 12, 2011
Clifford A. Lynch, Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology, December 12, 2011. Opening plenary session of the Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting. Watch the video.
