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
Strategies for Acquiring Access to Generative AI Services and Systems (February '26)View Report View more information
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
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Deploying an AI Sandbox: A Libraries-Led Service Pilot for Scalable Research Infrastructure (Lightning Talk) (March '26)
Varun Sayapaneni, University of Oklahoma
From Accessibility to Extraction: AI Applications and Evaluation Frameworks for Collections (March '26)
Sarah Cogley, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Stacy Snyder, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Paul Gallagher, Western Michigan University
From Infrastructure to Impact: The Allmaps-IIIF Partnership (March '26)
Jonathan Manton, Yale University
Martin Kalfatovic, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium
From Scan to Discovery: Responsible AI and Open Source Strategies for Document and AV Access (March '26)
Adelynn Shirts, Utah State University
David Advent, Utah State University
Brian McBride, University of Utah
Harish Maringanti, University of Utah
Bohan Zhu, University of Utah
Sara Brumfield, FromThePage
A Methodical Approach to Evaluating AI-Generated Metadata: Outcomes of a First-Year Charter (March '26)
Jeremy Thompson, University of Texas
Mirko Hanke, University of Texas
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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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