Standards
CNI is particularly concerned with facilitating the difficult and delicate transition of standards and technologies into operational infrastructure for the research, higher education, and library communities. For example, federated identity management is becoming a key facet of infrastructure to support research. CNI participates in and tracks a wide range of developments in areas as diverse as identifiers, digital books, and metadata standards. We are interested in standards that facilitate integration and interoperation. This perspective has been evident in our work on cyberinfrastructure, linked open data, institutional repositories, the Open Archives Initiative, the Open Annotation work, and learning management systems.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
A Conversation on the Changing Landscape of Information Systems in Higher Education: Community Source, Community Platforms and Systems as Services (December '14)Speakers: Tom Cramer, James Hilton, Michele Kimpton, and Clifford Lynch View more information View video
“The Need for Research Data Inventories and the Vision for SHARE” (September '14)
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“Preserving Digital Documents: Choices, Approaches, and Standards” (October '04)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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“Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments” (May '04)
Authors: Clifford A. Lynch, Neil McLean
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“Metadata Harvesting & OAI” (August '01)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
A Complex Network: The Getty Provenance Index (November '25)
David Newbury, Getty
Lily Pregill, Getty
Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research (November '25)
Tim McGeary, Duke University
Gil Tran, Attain Partners
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners
IndigenizeSNAC: Indigenous and Reparative Archival Search and Aggregation (November '25)
Diana Marsh, University of Maryland, College Park
Jerry Simmons, University of Virginia
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Luiseño/Cupeño), University of Maryland
Veronica Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria)
IT Governance in Academic Libraries: Insights from a Cross-Institutional Survey (November '25)
John Borwick, University of Washington
Ray Frohlich, Yale University
Dale Hendrickson, Yale University
Partnering to Advance Access and Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications (November '25)
Allison Levy, Brown University
Sara Jo Cohen, University of Michigan
Victoria Hindley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero, University of Guam
Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University
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Recent Videos
Findings from a Workshop on Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise (January '26)Chelsea McCracken, Ithaka S+R View more information
Launching the OAEBUDT within the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace | A 2025 Year in Review (January '26)
Christina Drummond, University of North Texas View more information
US RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) Pilot Update (January '26)
Sheila Rabun, Lyrasis View more information
Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol (January '25)
Patrick Hargitt, Atypon/Wiley View more information
The IIIF Consortium: Providing Richer Access to The World’s Image, Audio/Visual, and 3D Digital Content (January '25)
Martin Kalfatovic, International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium View more information
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Recent Podcasts
May 23, 2012: ORCID Update, Scholarly Attribution, 21st C. Libraries (May '12) CNI Conversations Podcast, April 29, 2012Listen to the Podcast
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