Mark E. Phillips
Head, Digital Projects Unit
University of North Texas
Robert M. Johnson
Vice President for Information Services & CIO
Rhodes College
Suzanne Bonefas
Director of Special Projects
Rhodes College
Stacy Pennington
Associate …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2007 Membership Meeting
December 10-11, 2007
Washington, DC
Copyright and Large Scale Digitization: Implications for Access
Merrilee Proffitt
Program Officer, RLG Programs
OCLC Programs and Research
Constance Malpas
Program Officer, RLG Programs
OCLC Programs and Research
RLG Programs has done a series of short interviews with partner institutions in order …
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Creating an Integrated Digital Library Based on the Fedora Platform
Susan Schreibman
Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections & Research
University of Maryland at College Park
David Kennedy
Applications Developer
University of Maryland at College Park
The University of Maryland Libraries …
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Data Management and Accessibility: Initiatives in the Biological Sciences
Zack E. Murrell
Director of the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections
Appalachian State University
Chris Hodge
Coordinator, SunSITE, Customer Technology Support
University of Tennessee
Robert K. Peet
Professor and …
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Data-Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration at the University of California, San Diego
Brian Schottlaender
University Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Robert H. McDonald
Director, Strategic Data Alliances
University of California, San Diego
In recent years both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the …
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dbGaP: Linking Clinical Information with Genetic Data
Jeffrey Beck
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine
To support investigator access to data from genome-wide association study initiatives at the National Institutes of Health and elsewhere, the …
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Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure
John Unsworth
Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh
Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University
Neil Fraistat
Director of the Maryland Institute of Technology …
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The eCrystals Federation: Open Data Repositories Supporting Open Science
Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN
University of Bath
Manjula Patel
Research Officer
University of Bath
Simon Coles
Manager, National Crystallography Service
University of Southhampton
This presentation will describe the background of the …
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Editorial Curation and Identity Management in Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the NSDL
Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative
Columbia University
David Millman
Director, Research and Development, Academic Information Systems
Columbia University
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was established by the …
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Explorative Search and the Library Catalog
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard
Director of Development
State and University Library
Summa, the search system of the State and University Library in Aarhus, Denmark, addresses many of the issues raised in a number of recently published studies, …
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Fedora Commons: Mission and Sustainability Strategy
Sandy Payette
Executive Director, Fedora Commons
Fedora Commons and Cornell University
Fedora Commons is a new non-profit organization established to provide a robust, open-source technology platform to enable revolutionary change in the ways …
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The Global Digital Format Registry Project
Stephen Abrams
Digital Library Program Manager
Harvard University
Andreas Stanescu
Software Architect
OCLC, Inc.
The role of format is central to effective preservation of digitally encoded assets. While it is possible for bits to be preserved …
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A Home for Converging Literacies: the Center for Digital Fluency at George Mason University
Craig Gibson
Associate University Librarian for Research, Instructional, and Outreach Services
George Mason University
Sharon Pitt
Executive Director, Division of Instructional Technology
George Mason University
This session will address the …
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How Does Digitization Affect Scholarship?
Roger C. Schonfeld
Manager of Research
Ithaka
In the fast-changing electronic journals marketplace, publishers face questions about how best to distribute their content and librarians face questions about what content to acquire and under what …
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Imag(n)ing the Shuilu Temple: A Report on the Project in China… and the Path Ahead
Harlan Wallach
Media Services Architect
Northwestern University
William R. Parod
Architect for Scholarly Technologies
Northwestern University
Northwestern University recently completed a two-year project near Xi’an (China), digitizing at very …
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Integrating Library Resources
Kim Griggs
Library Systems Programmer
Oregon State University
Margaret Mellinger
Engineering Librarian
Oregon State University
Jane Nichols
Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian
Oregon State University
Angela Ramnarine-Rieks
Web …
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International Digitial Preservation
Seamus Ross
Professor, Humanities Computing & Information Management
University of Glassgow
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard
Director of Development
State & University Library (Aarhus, Denmark)
George Barnum
Content System Manager
United …
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IU ChaCha Search: Research, Development and Services
Kim Milford
Special Assistant, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
Jonathan Ellman
Vice President, Academic & Government Alliances
ChaCha
David William Lewis
Dean of the University Library
Indiana …
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LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding Collective Intelligence to the OPAC
John Wenzler
Electronic Resources Coordinator
San Francisco State University
Web 2.0 theorists argue that Internet technologies now allow us to harness the “Wisdom of the Crowd” in unprecedented ways. “Folksonomies,” which use the …
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Managing Collaboration and the Opportunities for Libraries
Ken Klingenstein
Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2 and University of Colorado, Boulder
Lois Brooks
Director, Academic Computing
Stanford University
With the remarkable bloom of collaboration tools, including many of the Web …
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Mashup Contest: Student Created Video Parodies
Anu Vedantham
Director, Weigle Information Commons
University of Pennsylvania
Peter Decherney
Assistant Professor, English and Cinema Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Digital media success stories in undergraduate classrooms at the …
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Meeting the Needs of Research Data Management Using Institutional Repositories: An Application of the Data Curation Continuum at Monash University
Andrew Treloar
Director and Chief Architect
ARCHER Project Monash
Monash University
Cathrine Harboe-Ree
University Librarian
Monash University
Alan McMeekin
Executive Director, Information Technology Services
Monash University
Monash …
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Moving Communication Forward: Internet Voice and Video in Libraries
Char Booth
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Ohio University
In recent years, innovations in Internet communication combined with greater bandwidth capacity have vastly increased the popularity of Internet video and voice calling …
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Moving Forward with Shibboleth
Philip Mattingly
Senior Operating Systems Specialist
Texas Digital Library
David Kennedy
Applications Developer
University of Maryland at College Park
Scott Phillips
Research & Development Coordinator
Texas A&M …
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New Cooperative Strategies for Distributed Digital Preservation: MetaArchive and Educopia
Martin Halbert
Director for Digital Programs
Emory University
Katherine Skinner
Digital Projects Librarian
Emory University
Tyler O. Walters
Associate Director for Technology and
Resource Services
Georgia Institute of …
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The Public Knowledge Project: Providing Alternatives for Scholarly Publishing
G.W. Brian Owen
Associate University Librarian, Processing and Systems
Simon Fraser University
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is an ongoing collaboration between academics, librarians, publishers, editors, and software developers, …
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Recommender Systems for (Scientific) Libraries
Andreas Geyer-Schulz
Professor
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
The recommender service BibTip is a value-added service which extends the functionality of libary online public access catalogs (OPAC) with automatically generated recommendations …
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A Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: Call for Community Engagement
John Ober
Director, Policy, Planning and Outreach
University of California
Joyce Ogburn
University Librarian
University of Utah
The systems supporting scholarly communication are rapidly evolving. Academic libraries and their parent …
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The Research Commons: Planning Library Space and Services for Faculty and Graduate Students
Patricia A. Steele
Ruth Lily Interim Dean of University Libraries
Indiana University
Carolyn M. Walters
Executive Associate Dean of the Library
Indiana University
In Library as Place: Rethinking Roles. Rethinking Space, Geoffrey A. …
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Searching Across Time: Issues and Opportunities for Full Text Search of Web Archives Using Nutch
Kris Carpenter Negulescu
Director, Web Archive
Internet Archive
For the past two years, the Internet Archive (IA) has used Nutch/Lucene open source tools to generate full text search indexes of archival Web content for the National …
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Supporting Cyberscholarship in American Social History: The DLF Aquifer Story
Katherine Kott
Digital Library Federation Aquifer Director
Digital Library Federation
This session will provide a snapshot of the services now available through DLF Aquifer's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded American Social History …
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A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems
Mark Cyzyk
Scholarly Communication Architect
The Johns Hopkins University
In late 2006 the Library Digital Programs Group of The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University was commissioned by the Open Society Institute (OSI) to …
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An Update from OAI Object Re-Use & Exchange
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Lloyd Nelson
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Carl Lagoze
Senior Researcher, Information Science Program
Cornell University
Robert …
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Update on Key Copyright Developments in the U.S. with a Focus on 108 Study Group
James G. Neal
Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Columbia University
Copyright continues to be a core interest of the higher education and academic library communities. This briefing will focus on eight …
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Update on Scholarly Communication Efforts by Microsoft Corporation
Lee Dirks
Director, Scholarly Communications
Microsoft Corporation
Over the past 18-24 months, Microsoft Corporation has become far more involved in the academic and scholarly communication space, and is actively engaging in projects …
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The Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion: One Year On
David E. Laurence
Director of Research and ADE
Modern Language Association
David Nicholls
Director of Book Publications
Modern Language Association
In December 2006, the Modern Language Association (MLA) released the report of its Task …
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