HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo
Todd Presner, University of California Los Angeles
Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time
April 5, 2011
Creating a Comprehensive Technology Model for a Converged Library, Archive, Art and Publishing Facility at the University of Calgary
April 1, 2011
Thomas Hickerson
Vice Provost and University Librarian
University of Calgary
Shawna Sadler
Technology Officer, Taylor Family Digital Library
University of Calgary
After three years of construction, the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) is nearing completion. The 265,000 sq. ft building at the heart of the University of Calgary central campus is the centerpiece in a $203 million project and will serve as the hub of Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR), a principal division including the university libraries, art museum and University of Calgary Press. The move into the TFDL represents both a physical and programmatic convergence for these units. This briefing will describe the development process for a $13 million technology plan, an effort to conceptualize and implement a comprehensive model for the 21st century, focused on knowledge creation, touch-enabled visual display, collaborative work, new media support and immediate and long-term flexibility. Particular technologies being employed include a visualization lab, with a high-resolution touch-wall, high-resolution microtiles, LCD walls with touch lecterns, viewing theatres, media editing suites, small and large touch tables, real-time data visualization displays, gaming areas with retrospective and contemporary consoles, video conference capabilities in student spaces, Tidebreak software, and touch-interactive instruction rooms. Consulting and technology selection processes will be detailed providing background for others facing similar challenges.
Handout (PDF)
Presentation Slides available in Keynote & PowerPoint
E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later
April 1, 2011
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
In 2001 I wrote an essay titled “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday, 6:6, June 2001). It’s taken much longer than I would have thought, but developments in the e-book world seem to be reaching critical points in several areas. In this session, I’ll look back at what I got right and what I got wrong ten years ago, and, more importantly, unexpected developments and the current state of play in both scholarly and mass-market publishing.
Kuali OLE: From Startup to Software
April 1, 2011
Robert H. McDonald
Executive Director, Kuali OLE
Indiana University
Michael Winkler
Kuali OLE Functional Council Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Bradley Skiles
Project manager, Kuali OLE
Indiana University
Richard Slabach
Quality Assurance Manager, Kuali OLE
Indiana University
In July 2010, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $2.38 million dollar grant to a national partnership of nine university libraries to carry out the build and implementation phase of the Kuali OLE (pronounced Oh-LAY) Project. The partners in the project have pledged an equivalent amount of cost-share to the project, creating one of the largest library-funded community-source software projects in modern history. Kuali OLE builds from the Mellon-funded OLE Planning Grant led by Duke University Libraries, a process that engaged hundreds of libraries and librarians at international scale in the feasibility of a community sourced software solution for academic library management work flow.
In phase one of the build project, July 2010-July 2011, Kuali OLE has several deliverables that will be demonstrated to the library and enterprise academic software community. This phase will:
• demonstrate ingest of library vendor records from a major library approval plan vendor
• demonstrate the feasibility of using Kuali RICE middleware for creating and routing this as a library requisition workflow
• demonstrate the functionality of the embedded Kuali Finance System Software components for generating purchase orders and managing library funds
This project briefing, a follow-on to briefings at CNI in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, will include a demonstration of code and re-use of Kuali software components from the build phase as of mid-March 2011. The Kuali OLE Reference Model Implementation, that is expected to be available as a target for use by both Kuali OLE Partners as well as for those interested in Kuali OLE implementation, will also be discussed. This will include both the OLE core software as well as a demonstration public discovery layer. Upcoming previews of the first Kuali OLE Conference Track that will be held at Kuali Days 2011 in November in Indianapolis will also be presented.
Presentation at the Personal Digital Archiving Conference
February 25, 2011
Clifford A. Lynch, Presentation at the Personal Digital Archiving conference at the Internet Archive, February 24-25, 2011. Conference Chair: Jeff Ubois. Video available from the Internet Archive.
Video: Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, from CNI Fall Meeting
February 16, 2011
A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). In Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, MITH Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum and University of Maryland doctoral candidate Rachel Donahue present a summary of findings from the recently published CLIR report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, as well as a report from an associated symposium conducted at the University of Maryland in May 2010.
More information about this session, as well as a link to the CLIR report, are accessible from the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-linked-negulescu.html.
Linked Open Data Presentation from CNI Fall Meeting
February 7, 2011
A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls… Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption? features case studies by speakers from Cornell University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Internet Archive, as well as a summary presentation by MIT’s MacKenzie Smith.
Presentation slides and handouts from this session are accessible from the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-linked-negulescu.html.
Video ‘Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact’ from CNI fall meeting
January 31, 2011
CIO Sally Jackson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) discusses cyberinfrastructure impact assessment, and why it’s important, in this project briefing session, presented at CNI’s December 2010 meeting. Video of the presentation is available on both of CNI’s channels: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).
For more information about the session, and for access to the presentation materials, visit the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-assessing-jackson.html.
Video of NSF Data Management Plan Requirements from 12/10 CNI Mtg
January 25, 2011
The video of a well-attended CNI Fall meeting session on “NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives” is now available on both YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni. Serge Goldstein of Princeton and Scott Brandt of Purdue provided information on what their institutions are doing to support their researchers’ needs to include data management plans as part of grant proposals to the National Science Foundation.
In addition, you can find the presenters’ PowerPoint presentations and other materials on our meeting website at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-nsf-goldstein.html .
I know many campuses are tackling similar issues and I hope can benefit from the work highlighted at our meeting.
Joan Lippincott
Associate Director, CNI
