Information Access & Retrieval
Locating information on the Internet is simple or complex, depending on your point of view. Search engines such as Google are popular ways to quickly find information on the Web but they may lack precision. Sophisticated searching systems of subject databases or library catalogs may provide precision but apply to a limited universe of content. Understanding how to develop search mechanisms that are useful to a wide array of users with differing needs, in many different subject areas, continues to be a challenge. New types of searching, using visualization or semantics, are also being tested. CNI keeps the community informed of developments in this area.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
International Tensions and “Science Nationalism” in a Networked World: Strategies and Implications (January '21)View Report View more information
“Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections” (October '19)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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Responsible Stewardship, Technology Realities, and Renewing Collaborations (December '18)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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“Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era” (October '18)
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Big Data, the Cloud and Academic Research (October '18)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Big Collection: What We’re Building (November '22)
Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Collaborative Software Archiving for Institutions (CoSAI) (November '22)
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)
Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College
Cultural and Technical Transformations: Benefits from Yale’s Linked Data Cross-Collection Discovery Platform (November '22)
Susan Gibbons, Yale University
Robert Sanderson, Yale University
How the Public Access Submission System is Ideally Suited to Address the New Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum (November '22)
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
John Kellerman, Eclipse Foundation
Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University
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Recent Videos
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Big Collection: What We’re Building (November '22)Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance View more information
Collaborative Software Archiving for Institutions (CoSAI) (November '22)
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory View more information
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)
Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College View more information
Cultural and Technical Transformations: Benefits from Yale’s Linked Data Cross-Collection Discovery Platform (November '22)
Susan Gibbons, Yale University
Robert Sanderson, Yale University View more information
How the Public Access Submission System is Ideally Suited to Address the New Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum (November '22)
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
John Kellerman, Eclipse Foundation
Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University View more information
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Recent Podcasts
Facing Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation: The Research Library’s Role and Georgetown University’s Experience (December '17) K. Matthew Dames, Georgetown UniversityMelissa Levine, University of Michigan View more information
Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Process and Expectations (March '13) Roberta Shaffer, Library of Congress
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