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.
Online Video Creation by Undergraduates: Consequences for Media Literacy
December 7, 2011
Anu Vedantham
Director, Weigle Information Commons
University of Pennsylvania
Renee Hobbs
Founder of the Media Education Lab
and Professor of Communication
Temple University
Creation of online videos is a newly popular activity for today’s college students. New research reveals complexities in how students use video creation technology such as cell phones, video cameras and editing software. This session will discuss changing definitions of new literacies (visual, media, news, information, digital, etc.) and demonstrates how everyday video creation projects cross disciplinary boundaries. It will include a review of results from data collected in September 2010 from first-year students at a highly selective research university and provide recommendations for practitioners who are seeking to support student online video creation. This briefing will help educators and librarians to offer educational technology support and instruction.
An Overview of the National Science Foundation DataNet Funded Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data Project
December 7, 2011
Margaret Hedstrom
Professor of Information
University of Michigan
Robert H. McDonald
Associate Director Data to Insight Center and Associate Dean of Libraries
Indiana University
This panel will feature partners from the University of Michigan (U-M) based Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data (SEAD) Project, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partnership (DataNet, NSF 2009). This presentation will focus on SEAD and its partnership (U-M, Indiana University, University of Illinois, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and the mission of working with sustainable scientific data and the long-tail data of science.
Following a brief overview of NSF’s DataNet vision and goals, the SEAD partnership will be described, including information on how it is working to deliver data curation and preservation cyberinfrastructure that will integrate personnel and expertise from library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences, and domain science expertise to:
- Provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or engineering data over a decades-long timeline
- Continuously anticipate and adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations
- Engage at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure with research and development to drive the leading edge forward
- Serve as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access network
http://www.sead-data.net
Twitter: @SEADdatanet
Paying for Long-Term Storage
December 7, 2011
David S. H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
At the CNI Fall 2010 membership meeting, Serge Goldstein described Princeton’s POSE (Pay Once, Store Endlessly) service in which, based on the history of exponential decrease in storage costs, data is endowed with a capital sum to fund its storage indefinitely. Discussions sparked by this presentation, research at the Storage Systems Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and work for the Library of Congress on cloud storage for LOCKSS boxes, have all encountered questions whose answers require a more sophisticated approach to modeling the costs of long-term storage. Among these are:
- How can the cost of local storage, which has both capital and running costs, be compared with cloud storage, which has only running costs?
- Can solid-state storage, which is more expensive to buy but cheaper to run, be cost-effective for archival use?
- How vulnerable is the endowed data model to changes in the rate of decrease of storage costs?
Based on recent research into accounting for long-term costs, both practical from the Bank of England and theoretical from the Santa Fe Institute and Yale University, initial work supported by the Library of Congress is in progress to develop a Monte Carlo model of long-term storage costs. It consists of a framework into which models including interest rates and technology evolution, and policies including technology deployment and replication, can be plugged. The model can be used to explore a wide range of “what-if” scenarios.
The session will describe the model, present initial results and discuss future directions.
http://blog.dshr.org/2011/02/paying-for-long-term-storage.html
http://blog.dshr.org/2011/09/modeling-economics-of-long-term-storage.html
Handout (PDF)
Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation
December 7, 2011
Oya Y. Rieger
Associate University Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Cornell University
Robert Wolven
Associate University Librarian
Bibliographic Services
and Collection Development
Columbia University
E-journals have replaced the majority of titles formerly produced in paper format. Academic libraries are increasingly dependent on commercially produced, born-digital content that is purchased or licensed. The purpose of this presentation is to share the findings of a 2CUL study that assesses the role of LOCKSS and PORTICO in preserving each institution’s e-journal collections. The 2CUL initiative is a collaboration between Columbia University Library (CUL) and Cornell University Library (CUL) to join forces in providing content, expertise, and services that are impossible to accomplish acting alone.
Although LOCKSS is considered a successful digital preservation initiative, neither of the CULs felt that they fully understood the potential of the system for their own settings and collections. In support of this goal, a joint team was established in November 2010 to investigate various questions to assess how LOCKSS is being deployed and the implications of local practices for both CUL’s preservation frameworks. This study was seen as a high-level investigation to characterize the general landscape and identify further research questions. One of the practical outcomes was a comparative analysis of Portico and LOCKSS preservation coverage for Columbia and Cornell’s serial holdings. A key finding was that only 15-20% of the e-journal titles in the libraries’ collections are currently preserved by these two initiatives. Further analysis suggests the remaining titles fall into roughly 10 categories, with a variety of strategies needed to ensure their preservation.
