Emerging Technologies
New technologies appear all the time, and sometimes these innovations take hold and begin to have an impact on the kinds of services, programs, and strategies some sectors of the CNI community choose to explore. In this space, we will feature content pertaining to developing technologies whose potential applications are beginning to take shape within higher education, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, preservation, archives, and other areas of interest to CNI. The topics included here are those we view as emerging at the time of the presentation or publication.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
Update on Leadership Transition and Survey of Developments, Trends, and Prospects (January '25)Speaker: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A Panel and Community Conversation (February '24)
Speakers: Heather Sardis
Rachael Samberg
Richard Sever
Moderator: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
From Exascale to AI: Developments & Implications for the Information Landscape (January '24)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
Directions in Digital Scholarship: Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, and Computational Research in Academic Libraries (March '23)
Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information View more information
Designing Libraries for the 21st Century: Principles, Trends, and Innovations (November '22)
Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information View more information
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives and Museums, an International Network (Lightning Talk) (November '25)
Abigail Potter, Library of Congress
Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed (November '25)
Bohyun Kim, University of Michigan
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Jamie Wittenberg, University of Colorado Boulder
A Complex Network: The Getty Provenance Index (November '25)
David Newbury, Getty
Lily Pregill, Getty
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows (November '25)
Rosalyn Metz, Emory University
Miri Botzer, Clarivate
Allen Jones, The New School
Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Evan Simpson, Northeastern University
From Principles to Practice: Developing Artificial Intelligence Applications for Discovery in the Academic Library Space (November '25)
Matthew Hartman, Stony Brook University
Michael Napoleone, EBSCO Information Services
Timothy Kohn, Stony Brook University
Lucy Campbell, San Diego State University
Keven Jeffery, San Diego State University
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Recent Videos
Archivault: Processing Digital Collections at Scale with Generative Artificial Intelligence (January '26)Daniel Genkins, Vanderbilt University View more information
Automated Handwritten Text Recognition of Manuscript Document Collections (January '26)
Chulin Meng, Lehigh University
Joe Corall, Lehigh University View more information
Building Academic Research Library Artificial Intelligence Capacity: A Strategic Multi-Unit Integration Model (January '26)
Raymond Uzwyshyn, University of California, Riverside View more information
Findings from a Workshop on Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise (January '26)
Chelsea McCracken, Ithaka S+R View more information
Quantum Computing-as-a-Library Service (QCAALS): Preparing Academic Libraries for the Next Computing Revolution (January '26)
Seth Porter, University of Colorado Colorado Springs View more information
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Recent Podcasts
ATGthePodcast – A Conversation with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (September '24) Speaker: Clifford LynchListen to the podcast
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AI and Scholarship (August '24) Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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CNI Interviews Podcast: The Directions in Digital Scholarships Initiative (May '23)
Lippincott, Joan. Interview with Gerry Bayne. CNI Interviews Podcast: The Directions in Digital Scholarships Initiative. Podcast audio. May 1, 2023, https://er.educause.edu/podcasts/the-cni-interviews-podcast/the-directions-in-digital-scholarships-initiative.…
View more informationA Conversation with CNI’s Cliff Lynch (September '22) Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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