Micah Altman
Director of Research, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Trevor Owens
Digital Archivist
Library of Congress
Michelle Gallinger
Principal
Gallinger Consulting
There is more content being created than ever, …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting
December 8 – 9, 2014
Washington, DC
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Analytics and Privacy: A Proposed Framework for Negotiating Service and Value Boundaries
Lisa Hinchliffe
Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Asher
Assessment Librarian/Adjunct Faculty in Anthropology
Indiana University
Throughout their …
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Archives and Digital Humanities
Charlotte Nunes
Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship
Southwestern University
Mary W. Elings
Head of Digital Collections, The Bancroft Library
University of California at Berkeley
Jen …
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The Benefits of Collaboration: Optimizing Content Coverage in Library Discovery Systems
Amira Aaron
Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources, Libraries
Northeastern University
Bruce Heterick
Vice President, JSTOR | PORTICO
ITHAKA
Christine Stohn
Product Manager
Ex Libris Group
The recommendations of the National …
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A Decade In: Assessing the Impacts and Futures of Internet Identity
Ken Klingenstein
Identity and Trust Person
Internet2
The rise of Internet identity began in earnest ten years ago, as academic, government and corporate and social deployments started and began to influence each other. Government initiatives have come …
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The DeLiVerMATH Project: Towards Virtual Research Environments in Mathematics
Peter Loewe
Head of Development
German National Library of Science and Technology
Silke Rehme
Vice President, Content & Services
FIZ Karlsruhe Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
In order to create virtual research …
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Developing a 21st Century Global Digital Mathematics Library for Research
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Patrick Ion
Associate Editor Emeritus
American Mathematical Society
Timothy W. Cole
Mathematics & Digital Content Access Librarian
University of Illinois at …
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Developing an Analytics Dashboard for Coursera MOOC Discussion Forums
Bill Parod
Architect for Software Development
Northwestern University
In February 2013, Northwestern University partnered with Coursera to begin delivering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as part of our diversified online learning …
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Development of a Small Data Collections Archiving Service Option at Johns Hopkins University
Betsy Gunia
Data Management Consultant
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Pralle
Head, Entrepreneurial Library Program
Johns Hopkins University
Since our inception in July 2011, Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services has been offering a …
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Developments in Digital Repositories
Tracy Seneca
Head of Digital Programs and Services
University of Illinois at Chicago
Charles Blair
Director, Digital Library Development Center
University of Chicago
Glen Robson
Head of Systems Unit
National Library of Wales
E …
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Digital Repository Development at Yale Library
Michael Dula
Chief Technology Officer, Library
Yale University
In response to a fragmented digital collections environment developed over many years using many systems, in 2012 the Yale Library launched a project to unify its digital …
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Digital Scholarship Centers
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
An increasing number of institutions, from liberal arts colleges to research universities, are creating digital scholarship centers. CNI wanted to understand better the …
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“Do More With Less”? See How Four Organizations Translate That Into “Being More Efficient and Effective” Through the Use of Private & Commercial Cloud Services
Steven Escar Smith
Professor and Dean
University of Tennessee
Kevin Kidd
Head of Library Systems & Applications
Boston College
Carl Grant
Associate Dean, Knowledge Services and Chief Technology Officer
University of Oklahoma
Oren …
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e-Journal Archiving: Changing Landscape
Oya Y. Rieger
Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services
Cornell University Library
Lars Bjørnshauge
Director European Library Relations, SPARC Europe & Managing Director, DOAJ
SPARC Europe & …
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Ensuring Access to Digital Back Copy: Who Has the Digital Shelving?
Peter Burnhill
Director, EDINA & Head of Data Library
University of Edinburgh
Perhaps the key task for research libraries is to ensure ease and continuity of access to both the record of scholarship and to the resources that scholarship …
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The Evolution of VIVO Software, Standards, and Open-Source Community: Project Update
Layne M. Johnson
VIVO Project Director
DuraSpace
During 2014, VIVO has adopted a governance structure that is consistent with DuraSpace projects and has begun evolving to a community-supported sustainability model. In this presentation, the technical, …
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Exposing Library Collections on the Web: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Timothy W. Cole
Mathematics & Digital Content Access Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenning Arlitsch
Dean of the Library
Montana State University
Ted Fons
Executive Director, Data Services & WorldCat …
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Extending the Lifecycle of Scientific Field Notes: Making Hidden Collections Reusable
Extending The Lifecycle Of Scientific Field Notes: Making Hidden Collections Reusable from CNI Video Channel on Vimeo.
Riccardo Ferrante
Director of Digital Services, Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Rusty Russell
Program Director for Collections …
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Falling Though the Cracks: Digital Preservation and Institutional Failures
Jerome McDonough
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Existing digital preservation efforts typically occur within the institutional contexts of libraries, archives, and museums, and focus on materials held to serve a given …
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Fedora 4 Early Adopters
David Wilcox
Fedora Product Manager
DuraSpace
Stefano Cossu
Director of Applications Development, Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Declan Fleming
Chief Technology Strategist and Director of IT
University of California, San Diego
Michael …
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Fostering Human-to-Human Collaboration
Adam Hyde
Production Owner, Tahi
PLOS
Knowledge production is a 'human-to-human' collaborative process. Most technologies inadvertently create barriers to this - emphasizing pipelines over human engagement. To remove these barriers, PLOS has …
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The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb): A Collaborative Open Data Project Supporting Electronic Resources Management and Scholarly Communication
Kristin Antelman
University Librarian
California Institute of Technology
Liam Earney
Senior Manager, Collections
Jisc
Kristen Wilson
Associate Head of Acquisitions and Discovery
North Carolina State University
The Global Open …
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How Relevant are Your Results? Supporting Topical Research in Discovery Services
Athena Hoeppner
Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Central Florida
Ashley Brewer
Information Delivery Services Librarian
Old Dominion University
James G. Rhoades, Jr.
Social Sciences Research Librarian
Old Dominion University
Dave …
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Hybrid and Fluid by Design: Collective Capacity Building for the Digital Humanities at Penn State
Patricia Hswe
Digital Content Strategist and Head, ScholarSphere User Services
The Pennsylvania State University
This presentation will detail the ways in which The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Libraries have implemented new …
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Improving Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility Through Connection of the Scholarly Workflow
Andrew Sallans
Partnerships Lead
Center for Open Science
The Center for Open Science (COS) was founded as a non-profit technology start-up in 2013 with the goal of improving transparency and reproducibility by connecting the scholarly workflow. COS …
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Improving the Odds of Preservation
David S. H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
Attempts have been made, for various types of digital content, to measure the probability of preservation. The consensus is about 50%. Thus the rate of loss to future readers …
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Inaugural Digital Preservation Network Pilot Project Findings and Next Steps
Debra Hanken Kurtz
Director
Texas Digital Library
Tony Navarrete
Digital Library Services Manager
Stanford University
David Minor
Director, Research Data Curation Program
University of California at San Diego
As the Digital …
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The Library Publishing Coalition: From Collective Action to Collective Impact
Sarah Kalikman Lippincott
Program Manager
Library Publishing Coalition
Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia Institute
Beginning in 2012, more than 60 academic libraries from the U.S. and Canada worked with the Educopia …
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Linked Data Initiatives at the National Library of Medicine
Barbara Bushman
Assistant Head, Cataloging and Metadata Management Section
National Library of Medicine
Nancy Fallgren
Metadata Librarian
National Library of Medicine
In January 2014, following an environmental scan of linked data at …
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The Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) Project: A Progress Report
Dean B. Krafft
Chief Technology Strategist
Cornell University
Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist
Stanford University
We will report on the first year of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project. LD4L is …
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Managing Research Data: Some Ins and Outs
Joyce Ray
Faculty and Program Coordinator, Digital Curation Program
Johns Hopkins University
Geneva Henry
University Librarian and Vice Provost for Libraries
George Washington University
Michele Kimpton
Chief Executive …
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The NIH Contribution to the Commons
Philip E. Bourne
Associate Director for Data Science
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is in the process of standing up a contribution to the Commons. This session will describe what that means and how …
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Online-Only Media: 21st Century Collection Crisis?
John Vallier
Head, Distributed Media
University of Washington
Today’s music and movie industry is increasingly favoring online-only, direct-to-consumer distribution. No longer can librarians expect to collect music recordings or videos on tangible …
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Planning for What’s Next: Growing Skills and Infrastructure for Changing Environments
Marianne Ryan
Associate University Librarian for Public Services
Northwestern University
Geoffrey Swindells
Head, User Experience Department, Library
Northwestern University
Chelcie Juliet Rowell
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Wake Forest …
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Publishing and Preserving Data as Primary Research Objects: The RMap Project
Publishing and Preserving Data as Primary Research Objects: The RMap Project from CNI Video Channel on Vimeo.
Timothy DiLauro
Digital Library Architect
Data Conservancy, Johns Hopkins University
Ken Rawson
Director of Publishing Systems …
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Research Impact, Scholarly Output, and Models of Sustainability in the Libraries
Steven Braun
Informatics/Data Services Specialist
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Minnesota
There is a long tradition in academia of developing methods to assess the scholarly output and impact of researchers. Although many such …
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Rights & Access Challenges for Large Scale Collections, Aggregators, and Repositories
Elaine Westbrooks
Associate University Librarian for Research
University of Michigan
Kevin Smith
Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communication
Duke University
Emily Gore
Director of Content
Digital Public Library of America
Debra …
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The Shelley-Godwin Archive
Neil Fraistat
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Raffaele Viglianti
Research Programmer, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Trevor Muñoz
Associate …
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Smithsonian X Digitization: Rapid Capture for Vast Collections, 3D Digitization for Iconic Objects
Günter Waibel
Director, Digitization Program Office
Smithsonian Institution
Vincent Rossi
3D Program Officer
Smithsonian Institution
With 138 million objects and specimens housed in 41 facilities, the scale and diversity of Smithsonian …
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Snatch: An Archiving and Analysis Service for Global News
Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology
University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Broadwell
Academic Project Developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Klein
Programmer …
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Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future from CNI Video Channel on Vimeo.
Ann Thornton
Andrew W. Mellon Director
New York Public Library
Evelyn Frangakis
Aaron and Clara Greenhut Rabinowitz …
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Stewarding New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future from CNI Video Channel on Vimeo.
Ann Thornton
Andrew W. Mellon Director
New York Public Library
Evelyn Frangakis
Aaron and Clara Greenhut Rabinowitz …
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Swords, Dragons, and Spells: Libraries and User Privacy
Peter Brantley
Director Digital Library Applications
New York Public Library
Marshall Breeding
Independent Consultant
Library Technology Guides
Eric Hellman
Chief Executive Officer
Gluejar
Gary Price
Library …
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Towards an Open Annotation Standard
Rob Sanderson
Technology Standards Advocate
Stanford University
Karen Myers
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently created a working group for the purposes of standardizing web annotation, based on the output …
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Trend Analysis Using Text Mining
Sara Mannheimer
Data Management Librarian
Montana State University
Scott W.H. Young
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Montana State University
Zheng (John) Wang
Associate University Librarian, Digital Access, Resources, and Information …
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Trends in 3D Printing
James King
Information Architect, Library
National Institutes of Health
Kathlin Ray
Dean, University Libraries and Teaching/Learning Technologies
University of Nevada, Reno
NIH Library Technology Sandbox: 3D Printing for Medical …
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Under The Mattress? The Current Landscape of Confidential Data Storage
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer
Data Services Librarian
University of Kansas
Despite the attention they have received due to developing federal policy and emerging funding agency mandates, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) researchers …
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Update on BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework Initiative)
Karim B. Boughida
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Content Management
George Washington University
Jackie Shieh
Resource Description Coordinator
George Washington University
Jeff Penka
Consulting Product …
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Update on Funding Opportunities: New Programs, New Directions
Robert Horton
Associate Deputy Director
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amy Lucko
Director of Program Data and Statistics
Council on Library Resources
Kathleen Williams
Executive Director
National Historical Publications & Records …
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Update on SHARE Developments
Tyler Walters
Dean of University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jeffrey Spies
Co-Founder
Center for Open Science
Eric Celeste
Technical Director
SHARE
During the summer and fall of 2014 the Center for …
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What Role(s) Should the Library Play in Support of Discovery?
Roger C. Schonfeld
Program Director
Ithaka S+R
Discovery is an example of the challenges that libraries face both strategically and managerially as they navigate through large-scale change. It is equally an example of the opportunities they can find …
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What We Heard at the Roundtable: Supporting Digital Humanities at Scale
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) held two sessions of an Executive Roundtable on "Supporting Digital Humanities" just prior to the start of this membership …
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Wikipedia and Libraries: Increasing Library Visibility
Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
Jake Orlowitz
Founder of the Wikipedia Library
The Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikipedia Library is a novel project that allows active Wikipedia editors to gain access to the vital …
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