Kathlin Ray
Dean, University Libraries and Teaching & Learning Technologies
University of Nevada, Reno
As part of an ongoing plan to transform an underutilized science and engineering library into a lively incubator for student-faculty …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting
December 10-11, 2012
Washington, DC
Download the Fall 2012 Program/Schedule of Events
Academic Preservation Trust
Robin Ruggaber
Director, Online Library Environment
University of Virginia
Michele Kimpton
Chief Executive Officer
DuraSpace
Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) is a consortium of academic institutions committed to the creation and management …
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Auditing Distributed Preservation Networks
Micah Altman
Director of Research, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This presentation summarizes the lessons learned from trial audits of a several production distributed digital preservation networks. These audits were conducted using …
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Building an Archival Identity Management Network: Transforming Archival Practice and Historical Research
Daniel Pitti
Associate Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
University of Virginia
Brian Tingle
Technical Lead
California Digital Library
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked …
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Collaborative Statewide Networked Information Content: Case Study in the Development and Operation of the Portal to Texas History
Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas
Helen Agüera
Senior Program Officer
National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities
Brenda Gunn
Associate Director for Research and Collections, Briscoe …
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Data Management Planning Made Easy: The DMPTool
Andrew Sallans
Head of Strategic Data Initiatives, Library; Co-Lead on DMPTool Project
University of Virginia
Carly Strasser
Data Curation Specialist
California Digital Library
There is a large gap between the data management skills needed by …
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Debunking Myths and Establishing Guidelines for the ETD Lifecycle
Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas
Katherine Skinner,
Executive Director
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
Matt Schultz
Program Manager
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
Gail McMillan
Director, …
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Demonstrating Library Value
Rachel Fleming-May
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
Teresa Walker
Head Integrated User Services, Library
University of Tennessee
Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director
Association of Research …
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Developing a Customized, Extensible Application for Digital Collections
Suzanne Thorin
Dean of Libraries and University Librarian
Syracuse University
Sean Quimby
Senior Director, Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University
Jeremy Morgan
Information Technology Analyst
Syracuse …
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Digital Preservation Network Update
James Hilton
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
University of Virginia
Steven Morales
Program Director
Digital Preservation Network
This session will address the progress that has been made in the six months since the Digital …
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Doing Data Together: BWR, Shared Shelf, and CONA
Carole Ann Fabian
Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Columbia University
James Shulman
President
ARTstor
Bill Ying
CIO and Vice President of Technology
ARTstor
This session will describe the inter-organizational …
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E-Science Institute: An Approach to the Challenge of Digital Research
MacKenzie Smith
University Librarian
University of California, Davis
Gary Strong
University Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Programs
DuraSpace
Last year the Association of Research …
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Establishing Infrastructures for Scholarly Publishing
Kevin Comerford
Assistant Professor/Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of New Mexico
Jonathan Wheeler
Data Curation Librarian
University of New Mexico
Kevin S. Hawkins
Head of Publishing Production, MPublishing
University of …
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Extending Access to Scholarly Resources: JSTOR’s Alumni Program
Bruce Heterick
Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services
JSTOR
Susan Gibbons
University Librarian
Yale University
Damon Jaggars
Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services
Columbia University
Molly …
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eTexts at Illinois: Digital Textbook Publishing
Glenda Morgan
Director of Academic Technology Services & eLearning Strategist
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Millind Basole
eText Lead
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois at …
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Force 11: The Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship
Maryann Martone
Co-Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
University of California, San Diego
Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help …
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The Future of Fedora
Edwin Shin
Managing Partner
MediaShelf
Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director
Stanford University
Matthias Razum
Head e-Science
FIZ Karlsruhe
Jonathan Markow
Chief Strategy Officer
DuraSpace
Thornton …
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The HathiTrust Research Center: Opening Up the Elephant for New Knowledge Creation
John Unsworth
Vice Provost for Library & Technology Services and Chief Information Officer
Brandeis University
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy and Associate Dean of …
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HarvardX: Developing Communities of Practice for Innovation in Online Learning
Samantha Earp
Managing Director, Academic Technology Services
Harvard University
Susan Fliss
Interim Librarian of Harvard College for Research and Instruction
Harvard University
In May of 2012, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of …
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Innovation and the Law: An Analysis of the Barriers and Benefits of Text Mining
Torsten Reimer
Program Manager
JISC
Text mining and data analytics are of increasing interest to the international scholarly community. They promise to enable researchers to deal with an ever-increasing amount of publication and information, …
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Internet2 Net+ Services
Khalil Yazdi
Internet2 Business Development
Internet2
Dana Voss
Program Manager, Internet2 Net+ Services
Internet2
Leveraging the Internet2 Network and enabling services like InCommon federated identity management, the Internet2 NET+ Services …
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Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services: Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of Chemists and Historians
Roger Schonfeld
Program Director, Ithaka S+R
Ithaka
Deanna Marcum
Managing Director, Ithaka S+R
Ithaka
Over the past year, Ithaka S+R has conducted studies of the changing research methods and practices of scholars in two major fields: …
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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support New Roles of the 21st Century Research Library
Mark Phillips
Assistant Dean for Digital Libraries
University of North Texas
Declan Fleming
Chief Technology Strategist
University of California, San Diego
Lois Widmer
Chair, Digital Services and Shared Collections
University of …
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Library Innovation: Initiatives to Support Content Discovery and eResearch
Jim Hahn
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Bill Mischo
Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Beth Sandore Namachchivya
Associate …
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Library Publishing Coalition Project: Advancing the Emerging Library Publishing Field
Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia
Tyler Walters
Dean
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Julie Speer
Associate Dean, Research and Informatics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Martin …
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Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change
Lynne O’Brien
Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services
Duke University
Since announcing a partnership with Coursera in July 2012, Duke has launched two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and has eight more in development. Spanning …
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New Tools for Enabling Research: DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE
William Michener
Professor and Director of DataONE, University Libraries
University of New Mexico
Carly Strasser
Data Curation Specialist, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library
John Kunze
Associate Director, …
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Novel Collaboration Forms for Developing and Maintaining Research Data
Anita de Waard
Disruptive Technologies Director, Labs
Elsevier
David Marques
Senior Vice President, Research Data Services
Elsevier
Funding agencies are displaying two counteracting trends regarding research data repositories: on the …
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Olive: An Executable Content Archive Underway
Gloriana St. Clair
Dean of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel F. Ryan
Coordinator for Executable Content for Olive
Carnegie Mellon University
Now funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the …
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Open Annotation Update: OAC Experiment Results and Ongoing Work of the W3C OA Community Group
Timothy Cole,
Mathematics and Digital Content Access Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Paolo Ciccarese
Biomedical Informatics Research & Development Instructor of Neurology
Harvard University & Massachusetts General …
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Piloting Linked Data to Connect Library and Archive Resources to the New World of Data, and Staff to New Skills
Zheng (John) Wang
Director, Digital Assets Strategies and Associate Director, Content Division, Library
Emory University
Laura Akerman
Technology and Metadata Librarian
Emory University
This session will include a presentation of Emory University …
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The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web
Dan Cohen
Associate Professor and Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
Joan Fragaszy Troyano
Research Assistant Professor, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
George Mason …
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The Research Data Alliance: A Forum for Global Cooperation on Data Infrastructure
Chris Greer
Associate Director, IT Lab
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Fran Berman
Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is to global data infrastructure what the Internet Engineering Task …
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The Service Family for Research Data at Oxford University
Wolfam Horstmann
Associate Director, Digital Library Programmes and IT, Bodleian Libraries
Oxford University
Neil Jefferies
Research & Development Project Manager, Bodleian Libraries
Oxford University
Research data are at the heart of …
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Student-Driven Innovation: UCLA Library Simul8 Group
Kevin Rundblad
UX & Social Technology Strategist
University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and IT
University of California, Los Angeles
Solving informational problems for users …
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Supporting Community and Open Source Software in Cultural Heritage Institutions
Molly Tamarkin
Kuali OLE Functional Council Chair
Duke University
David Millman
Co-PI ArchivesSpace
New York University
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Co-PI ArchivesSpace
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Angela Spinazze
Senior …
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SURFconext: Next Generation Collaboration Infrastructure Across Institutional Boundaries
Frank Benneker
Educational Technologist
University of Amsterdam
Driek Heesakkers
Project Manager
University of Amsterdam
Modern universities are becoming loose conglomerates of (inter)disciplinary expertise that have a high degree of …
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Trends and Priorities: Briefing from Federal Funding Agencies
Amy Friedlander
Senior Advisor
National Science Foundation
Robert Horton
Associate Deputy Director for Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Kathleen Williams
Executive Director
National Historic Records and Publications …
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The Truth is Out There: Preservation and the Cloud
David S. H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
With the recent introductions of DuraCloud, Preservica, Glacier and others, preservation has joined most other applications in being offered as a cloud service, …
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UCLA Broadcast News Archive
Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology
University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon E. Farb
Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication
University of …
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Using the Cloud for Backup, Storage, and Archiving: Decision Factors, Experiences, and Use Cases Explored
Michele Kimpton
Chief Executive Officer
DuraSpace
Geneva Henry
Executive Director, Digital Scholarship Services
Rice University
Holly Mercer
Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Research Services
University of Tennessee …
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Video at Risk: Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries
Howard Besser
Professor and MIAP Director
New York University
Walter Forsberg
Research Fellow
New York University
Melissa Brown
Scholarly Communications Librarian
New York University
What will become of commercially produced circulating …
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Virtual Research Environments in Germany: Funding Activities of the German Research Foundation
Sigrun Eckelmann
Program Director, Academic Libraries & Information Systems
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Introduction by DFG (Eckelmann)
Presentation (Eckelmann PDF)
Steffen Vogt
Department of Physical Geography
University of …
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What To Do with All of those Hard Drives: Data Mining at Duke
Joel Herndon
Head, Data and GIS Services
Duke University
Molly Tamarkin
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
Duke University
Though research libraries face an increasing demand for collections and services that facilitate text …
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What We’re Learning from E-Text Pilots
Joan Cheverie
Policy Specialist
EDUCAUSE
Rodney Petersen
Managing Director of Washington Office & Senior Government Relations Officer
EDUCAUSE
Jarret Cummings
Policy Specialist
EDUCAUSE
Faculty, students, authors, and …
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Wikipedia and Libraries: What’s the Connection?
Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
Sara Snyder
Webmaster
Smithsonian Institution
It used to be that if you wanted information or answers to questions, you went to a library. In an era of increased reliance on major network …
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