Alan Inouye
Coordinator, PITAC
National Coordination Office for NITRD
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor & Dean, School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina
Christopher R. Johnson
Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2005 Membership Meeting
December 5-6, 2005
Phoenix, AZ
Advancing Intellectual Discovery Through Computational Science: Discussion of a Recent Report of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee
Alan Inouye
Coordinator, PITAC
National Coordination Office for NITRD
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor & Dean, School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina
Christopher R. Johnson
Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging …
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The American Council of Learned Societies, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Review of Project and Current Status
Charles Henry
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Rice University
Steven Wheatley
Vice President
American Council of Learned Societies
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are transforming their practices of collaboration and …
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The American Council of Learned Societies, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Open Forum
Charles Henry
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Rice University
Steven Wheatley
Vice President
American Council of Learned Societies
Peter B. Kaufman
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Intelligent Television
This is an open forum where …
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The ASERL LOCKSS-ETD Initiative: Developing Preservation Strategies for Libraries that Publish E-Scholarship
Robert H. McDonald
Associate Director of University Libraries for Technology & Research
Florida State University
Jody Combs
Director of the Digital Library
Vanderbilt University
John Burger
Executive Director
Association of Southeastern …
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Assessing Learning Spaces
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
This session will provide a framework for developing an assessment strategy for new or renovated technology-enabled learning spaces. Institutions are spending large sums …
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Assessing the Dimensions of Institutional Stewardship of Scholarly Digital Assets
Gary S. Lawrence
Director of Library Planning & Policy Development
University of California, Office of the President
Abby Smith
Independent Consultant
John L. Ober
Director, Policy, Planning and Outreach
University of California, Office of the …
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Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories
Bernard F. Reilly
President
Center for Research Libraries
As scholarly reliance upon source materials in digital form grows, the persistence of those materials becomes a matter of vital importance. To ensure that electronic journals, news, data sets, …
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The British Library Digital Object Management Program
Sean Martin
Head of Architecture and Development
The British Library
This is a long term British Library infrastructure initiative designed to store and preserve any type of digital material in perpetuity, and also to provide access to this material to …
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Building a New Educational Television Enterprise
Peter B. Kaufman
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Intelligent Television
Intelligent Television has received support in 2005 from foundations, government agencies, and corporate underwriters to produce new "Open Production Initiatives" around unique …
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Building Collaborative Partnerships for Digital Research in the Humanities
Katherine L. Walter
Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Building collaborative partnerships in digital humanities research can help strengthen university ties, contribute to interdisciplinary …
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The bX Project: Federating and Mining Usage Logs from Linking Servers
Johan Bollen
Digital Library, Research & Prototyping Team
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oren Beit-Arie
Chief Strategy Officer
Ex Libris Group
Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Resarch Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The bX …
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CIOs Look at Research Support
J. Gary Augustson
Vice Provost for Information Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Ronald Johnson
Vice President, Computing and Communications and Vice Provost
University Washington
James L. Hilton
Associate Provost for IT & Interim …
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Creating a Standards-Based Model for Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online: The CDWA Lite/OAI PMH Project
Murtha Baca
Head, Getty Vocabulary Program
Getty Research Institute
Karim Boughida
Senior Information Systems Architect
Getty Research Institute
Ken Hamma
Executive Director, Digital Policy and Initiatives
J. Paul Getty Trust
Bill Ying
Chief …
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Curation of E-Government Records
GladysAnn Wells
Director and State Librarian
Arizona State Library and Archives
Archives and Public Records
Richard Pearce-Moses
Director of Digital Government Information
Arizona State Library and Archives
Archives and Public Records
Government …
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Documenting Internet2: Using Heritrix for Focussed Web Crawl
Eric Celeste
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
University of Minnesota
When looking for ways to capture documentation of the Internet2 as an organization as part of the NHPRC-funded Documenting Internet2 project, we soon …
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Institutional Repositories: Trends and Issues in an International Context
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Norman Wiseman
Head of Outreach and Institutional Support
Joint Information Systems Committee
Gerard van Westrienen
Platform Manager, ICT and Research
SURF Foundation
In May, …
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Integrating Wiki Functions into OCLC Services
Jeffrey A. Young
Software Architect
OCLC, Inc.
Functionality has been incorporated into Open WorldCat (with FirstSearch to follow) that allows us to accommodate user-contributed content such as reviews, notes, and tables of content. As a pilot program, …
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Lessons in Cross-Repository Interoperability Learned from the aDORe Effort
Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jeroen Bekaer
Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The aDORe digital repository architecture designed and implemented by the Los Alamos Research …
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The Library as the Center for Teaching, Learning and Socializing
Hannelore B. Rader
Dean, University Libraries
University of Louisville
This presentation will focus on how an academic research library has molded itself into a vibrant campus center featuring state-of-the art technology for teaching and learning. The …
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Library/Museum Collaboration in Detroit: A Summary of Three-Dimensional Artifact Digitization Projects in the Detroit Metropolitan Region
Jeffrey Trzeciak
Associate Dean
Wayne State University
Matthew Martin
Digital Projects Librarian
Wayne State University
Shawn McCann
Web Librarian
Wayne State University
The reliance on digital resources for instruction is a trend that is well …
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Making History, Using Technology: Developing a Collections-Based Online History of Chicago
Robert L. Taylor
Director, Academic Technologies
Northwestern University
William R. Parod
Architect for Scholarly Technologies
Northwestern University
Sarah Marcus
Digital Projects Manager
Chicago Historical Society
In May of 2005, three partner …
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MINES for Libraries: Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services
Brinley Franklin
Vice Provost for University Libraries
University of Connecticut
Terry Plum
Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Simmons College
Web-based surveys are often overlooked as a tool for measuring the usage of …
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National (Canada) Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data
Glen K. Newton
Acting Group Leader
CISTI, National Research Council Canada
In this session, we will examine the results of the National (Canada) Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data (NCASRD). This consultation examined the issues around …
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The Open Content Alliance: Progress Report
Brewster Kahle
President
Internet Archive
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) brings together cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world to offer broad, public access to a rich panorama of world culture by …
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The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries
Cathy Nelson Hartman
Assistant Dean for Digital and Information Technologies
University of North Texas
Mark Edward Phillips
Manager, Digital Projects Unit
University of North Texas
How can small organizations hurdle obstacles to participate in …
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Preserving Electronic Scholarly Resources: An Overview of Portico
Eileen Fenton
Executive Director
Portico
As the scholarly community has become increasingly reliant upon scholarly resources published in electronic form, the importance of developing a production-level archive has become more and more urgent. In …
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Putting the "I" Back in Library
Nancy R. John
Digital Publishing Librarian and Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Many industries are customizing services and information for their clienteles. From the customized advertising of search engines to preference for seating …
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Putting the “I” Back in Library
Nancy R. John
Digital Publishing Librarian and Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Many industries are customizing services and information for their clienteles. From the customized advertising of search engines to preference for …
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Real Measurements for Libraries: The Normative Data Project
Steven Abram
Vice President of Innovation
SirsiDynix
Robert Molyneux
Chief Statistician
SirsiDynix
This presentation will report on the major project to develop a North American database of library user measures and use profiles. The first iteration …
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Re-imagining the Electronic Journal: “Vectors” and New Modes of Digital Scholarship
Tara McPherson
Editor, Vectors
University of Southern California
This workshop is designed to foment discussion about the future of publishing in electronic formats. While several journals have gone virtual in the past decade, very few have moved beyond …
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Research Data and the Distributed Institutional Repository
D. Scott Brandt
Associate Dean for Research
Purdue University
Michael C. Witt
Research Systems Administrator
Purdue University
Purdue University Libraries will build a model to archive datasets generated at a university during the research process …
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The Right Tool for the Job: DPubS Publication Management Software
Sarah E. Thomas
University Librarian
Cornell University
Nancy L. Eaton
Dean of Libraries
Pennsylvania State University
Having the right tool for the job makes a huge difference, as we all know when we struggle to turn a Philips head screw with a …
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Social Bookmarking in an Academic Environment
Michael Winkler
Director, Information Technologies & Digital Development
University of Pennsylvania
Social software like delicious, flickr or conneta have taken the web world by storm. The development of folksonomies from systems such as these can …
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The Spoken Word: New Resources to Transform Teaching and Learning
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh
Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University
Jerry Goldman
Professor
Northwestern University
David Donald
Principal Investigator
Glasgow Caledonian University
Dean Rehberger
Associate Director of MATRIX
Michigan State …
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TechLens: Exploring the Use of Recommenders to Support Users of Digital Libraries
Joseph A. Konstan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
Nishikant Kapoor
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Sean M. McNee
Ph.D. Student, Computer and Information Sciences
University of …
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Toward A Digital-Based Information Management Practice
Avra S. Michelson
Principal, Information Management
MITRE Corporation
Michael Olson
Distributed Systems Principal Engineer
MITRE Corporation
This project briefing will report on a special initiative by the MITRE Corporation's Information Technology …
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Year One Lessons Learned: Partnerships in the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program
Beth Sandore
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William G. LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress
Patricia Cruse
Director, Digital …
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