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
AI-Assisted Description of Library Collections: Two Approaches (November '26)
Eric O'Hanlon, Columbia University
Benjamin Zweig, Columbia University
Deseree Stukes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Benjamin Pennell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jason Casden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Applying AI Together: Cross-Institutional Case Studies in Accessible Collections (November '26)
Greg Leppert, Harvard University
Bohyun Kim, University of Colorado Boulder
Amanda Watson, Harvard University
Jessica Chapel, Boston Public Library
From Data Silos to AI-enabled Knowledge Graphs: Scale, Sustainability, and Social Contexts (November '26)
Katrina Fenlon, University of Maryland
Diana Marsh, University of Maryland
Robert Sanderson, Yale University
Amy Warner May, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland
From Digital Projects to Shared Infrastructure: Building Reusable AI Services for Research Libraries (November '26)
Melissa Mallon, Vanderbilt University
Daniel Genkins, Vanderbilt University
Lighthouse: Discovering Civil Rights History through Trustworthy AI (November '26)
Vandana Srivastava, University of South Carolina
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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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