Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas
Martha Anderson
Director of NDIIPP Program Management
Library of Congress
Trevor Owens
Community Lead
Library of Congress
Priscilla Caplan
Assistant Director
for …
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Project Briefings / Presentions
CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting
December 12-13, 2011
Arlington, VA
Download the Fall 2011 Schedule of Events
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Art Images Online: Leveraging Social Tagging and Language for Browsing
Irene Eleta
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland
Raul Guerra
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland
Museums and libraries have growing collections of digital images of their art works. Traditionally to enable access, experts create …
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Building Capacity for Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries: A Report on Recent ACRL Summits
Joyce L. Ogburn
ACRL President
Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library
Association of College and Research Libraries
University of Utah
Mary Ellen K. Davis
ACRL Executive Director
Association of College and Research Libraries
Kara J. …
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Building Data Management Services at Johns Hopkins University
G. Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Pralle
Head, Entrepreneurial Library Program
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns …
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Capturing Research Data: A MODS Metadata Application Profile for Institutional Repositories
Grace Agnew
Associate University Librarian
for Digital Library Systems
Rutgers University
Research data is extremely valuable for other researchers to discover and use but inherently difficult to describe. In common with other primary source …
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Cost Forecasting Model for New Digitization Projects
Karim Boughida
Associate University Librarian
for Digital Initiatives and Content Management
George Washington University
Linda Colet
Project Consultant / President,
DaoPoint Digital, LLC
George Washington University
Martha …
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Crowd Sourcing Metadata
Barbara Taranto
Digital Program Director
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library recently launched its first foray into crowd sourcing metadata by exposing 40,000 image pages of turn of the century restaurant and cruise ship …
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DAITSS Digital Preservation System: Re-architected, Re-written, and Open Source
Priscilla Caplan
Assistant Director
Florida Center for Library Automation
DAITSS is a preservation repository application used by the Florida Digital Archive (FDA), a digital repository shared by the eleven universities in the Florida public …
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Data Lifecycle Management
Thorny Staples
Director of Research
and Scientific Data Management
Smithsonian Institution
Jeremy Kenyon
Reference and Instruction Librarian
University of Idaho
Bruce Godfrey
GIS Specialist
University of Idaho
Towards a Virtual …
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Data Management Strategies
Jonathan Markow
Chief Strategy Officer
DuraSpace
Elaine L. Westbrooks
Associate Dean of Libraries
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kathy Notter
Director of Shared Computing Services, Information Services
University of …
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The DMPTool: Online Guidance and Resources for Your Data Management Plan
Sherry Lake
Senior Scientific Data Consultant
University of Virginia
Laine Farley
Executive Director
California Digital Library
This session is an update to the CNI Spring 2011 project briefing, "Data Management Plans Online," presented by Todd …
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ETDs as Prior Publications: The 2011 NDLTD Publishers’ Survey
Gail McMillan
Director, Digital Library and Archives
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
As an increasing number of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are made available on the Internet, there has been a concomitant increase …
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Europeana Libraries: Establishing THE Library Aggregator for Europe
Wouter Schallier
Executive Director
LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
The Europeana Libraries project, funded by the European Commission, is working to make 5 million digital objects from 19 leading European research libraries freely …
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Exhibit 3.0: The New and Improved Linked Data Publishing Platform
MacKenzie Smith
Research Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
At the CNI Fall 2010 Membership Meeting, a new project was presented that proposed to create a new version of the popular Exhibit open source software for organizing, publishing …
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Geospatial Literacy: Developing an Innovative and Student-centered Approach through Blended Learning
John Maclachlan
CLIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow
and Interim Manager, Maps/Data/GIS
McMaster University
Susan Vajoczki
Director, Centre for Leadership in Learning
McMaster University
Jeffrey Trzeciak
University Librarian
McMaster …
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HathiTrust: Reviewing Goals, Accomplishments, and Opportunities for Collective Action
Jeremy York
HathiTrust Project Librarian
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research libraries that was launched in 2008 with a bold mission to "contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and …
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Hydra: One Body, Many Heads for Repository-Powered Library Applications
Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist, Libraries
Stanford University
Hydra is a multi-institutional project that gives institutions a framework to build and deploy robust and durable digital repositories (the body) supporting multiple "heads": …
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Ideas that Drive Technology Innovation: Perspectives from Two Institutions
Dean Krafft
Chief Technology Strategist
Cornell University
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Associate Dean, Associate University Librarian for IT Planning and Policy
University of Illinois
Technology innovation in libraries is fueled by input from many …
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IMLS Funding Opportunities and Updates: 2012
Chuck Thomas
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Its mission is to create …
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Indiana University eText Program
David W. Lewis
Assistant Vice President for Digital Scholarly Communication
Indiana University
This session will review Indiana University's (IU) etext program. IU has signed agreements to dramatically reduce the costs of digital textbooks for …
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The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): Laying the Foundation for Common Services, Integrated Resources and a Marketplace of Tools for Scholars Worldwide
Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist, Libraries
Stanford University
Access to image-based resources is fundamental to research, scholarship and the transmission of cultural knowledge. Digital images are a container for much of the information …
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JSTOR’s Big Data Challenge: Mining Log Files to Improve Service to Users
Ronald Snyder
Director of Advanced Technologies
Ithaka - JSTOR
In the 15 years that JSTOR has been in existence, a wealth of logging data has been generated and archived. This logging data represents many billions of user actions. Until recently, …
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Learning in the Digital Age: Certificate Program in Conceptual Curation and Pedagogy for Conceptual Thinking
Uri Shafrir
Leader, Conceptual Curation
Cross-disciplinary Research Group
University of Toronto
Bruce Stewart
Director, The iSchool Institute
University of Toronto
Ana Patricia Ayala
Instruction and Faculty Liaison Librarian
Gerstein …
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Learning Spaces and Assessment: What Do We Want to Know?
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Malcolm Brown
Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
EDUCAUSE
Jeanne L. Narum
Principal
Learning Spaces Collaboratory
This session will include a …
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Leveraging an OAIS Digital Preservation System to Build a Locally Relevant Digital Library
John M. Meador, Jr.
Dean of Libraries
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Ido Peled
Rosetta Project Manager
Ex Libris Group
Binghamton University Libraries began digitizing special collections in 2006 and utilizing multiple …
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Localizing Integrated Search
Jens Hofman Hansen
Special Consultant, IT Business Development
State and University Library, Denmark
Simeon Warner
Director, Application Development
Cornell University Library
Business and Technology Hand in Hand: Latest Developments in …
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Mapping Atlanta: Building Spatial History Tools and Digital Resources
Michael Page
Coordinator, Geospatial Services
Emory University
Kim Durante
Metadata Librarian
Emory University
Randy Gue
Curator of Modern Political
and Historical Collections
Emory University
Historical atlases …
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Microsoft Academic Search: Next-Generation Scholarly Discovery
Lee Dirks
Director, Portfolio Strategy
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is actively developing a novel academic search service called Microsoft Academic Search. Although it has been a research project out of Microsoft Asia research lab for …
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Moving Video and Audio into the Scholarly Mainstream
Judith Thomas
Director, Arts and Media Services
University of Virginia
Rafael Alvarado
Associate Director, Sciences,
Humanities and Arts Network
of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI)
University of Virginia
Jama Coartney
Head, Digital …
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The New ISO Standard for Digital Repositories: What it Will Mean for Libraries
Marie-Elise Waltz
Special Projects Librarian
Center for Research Libraries
The International Standards Organization (ISO) recently approved a new standard against which to assess repositories of important digital data and content. The standard, ISO …
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New Roles for New Times: Emerging Library Roles for Supporting and Curating Digital Scholarship
Tyler Walters
Dean, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas
Katherine Skinner
Program Manager
MetaArchive Cooperative
Using the recently published …
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Olive: A Digital Archive for Executable Content
Gloriana St. Clair
Dean of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Ryan
Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
Increasingly, executable content pervades research and industry. Traditionally, libraries have been responsible for …
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Online Video Creation by Undergraduates: Consequences for Media Literacy
https://vimeo.com/36327641
Anu Vedantham
Director, Weigle Information Commons
University of Pennsylvania
Renee Hobbs
Founder of the Media Education Lab
and Professor of Communication
Temple University
Creation of online videos is a newly …
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Open Folklore: A Collaboration
Brenda Johnson
Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries
Indiana University
Timothy Lloyd
Executive Director
American Folklore Society
Julie Bobay
Associate Dean for Collection Development
and Scholarly Communication
Indiana …
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The Open Geoportal
Patrick Florance
Manager Geospatial Technology Services
Tufts University
David Siegel
Geospatial Data and Information Software Engineer
Harvard University
Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director
Stanford …
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Oral History, METS and Fedora: Building a Standards-Compliant Audio Preservation Infrastructure
Janet Gertz
Director, Preservation and Digital Conversion
Columbia University
Stephen Paul Davis
Director, Libraries Digital Program
Columbia University
From 2008 to 2010 Columbia University Libraries preserved 1,200 hours of seriously …
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ORCID Update
Geoff Bilder
Interim Technical Director, ORCID
ORCID and CrossRef
Amy Brand
Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments
Harvard University
The name ambiguity problem in attribution of scholarship is one that can only be solved collaboratively, …
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An Overview of the National Science Foundation DataNet Funded Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data Project
Margaret Hedstrom
Professor of Information
University of Michigan
Robert H. McDonald
Associate Director Data to Insight Center and Associate Dean of Libraries
Indiana University
This panel will feature partners from the University of Michigan …
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Paying for Long-Term Storage
David S. H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
At the CNI Fall 2010 membership meeting, Serge Goldstein described Princeton's POSE (Pay Once, Store Endlessly) service in which, based on the …
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Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation
Oya Y. Rieger
Associate University Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Cornell University
Robert Wolven
Associate University Librarian
Bibliographic Services
and Collection Development
Columbia University
E-journals have replaced the …
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Progress in Access Technologies
Edward Luczak
Systems Architect (Contractor)
US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Jennifer L. Marill
Chief, Technical Services Division
US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Paul Joseph
Systems Librarian
University of British Columbia
Bronwen …
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The SciVerse APIs: An Infrastructure for Machine-readable Scholarly Information
Ale de Vries
Senior Product Manager
Elsevier, Inc.
Peer-reviewed scholarly publications, in the form of journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reference works, are nearly universally available through the World Wide Web. The design of …
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A Tangled Web: Structural Problems in Game Preservation
Jerome McDonough
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
The Preserving Virtual Worlds (PVW) project is an on-going investigation into the preservation of computer games and interactive fiction, …
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Trends in Publishing
Julie Speer
Head, Scholarly Communication and Digital Services
Georgia Institute of Technology
Allyson Mower
Scholarly Communications
and Copyright Librarian
University of Utah
Sylvia K. Miller
Project Director
University of North Carolina at …
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Understanding Use of Networked Information Content: MINES for Libraries® Implementations at Scholars Portal
Dana Thomas
Scholars Portal Evaluation
and Assessment Librarian
Ontario Council of University Libraries
Alan Darnell
Manager, Scholars Portal Projects
Ontario Council of University Libraries
Terry Plum
Assistant Dean
Graduate School of …
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WissKI: An Architecture for a Transdisciplinary Virtual Research Environment
Guenther Goerz
Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Siegfried Krause
Head, Department for Cultural and Museum Informatics
Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
Research projects in cultural heritage institutions …
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