Aaron Trehub
Assistant Dean for Technology, Auburn University Libraries
Auburn University
Mallory Lucier-Greer
Associate Professor, College of Human Sciences
Auburn University
Denise Baker
Information Technology Manager, Auburn University …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2019 Membership Meeting
December 9-10, 2019
Washington, DC
See also Meeting Schedule (via mobile web app SCHED) & Schedule of Events PDF.
Accessibility Task Force: Determining Compliance and Organizing Action
Suzanne Wones
Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Innovation
Harvard University
Claire DeMarco
Associate Director for Digital Strategies and Innovation
Harvard University
In June of 2019, Harvard University announced that it …
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Acknowledging Core Facilities and Collections Use with ORCID
Eric Olson
Engagement and Partnerships Lead
ORCID
Many research institutions and universities manage or host core facilities and collections, resources that researchers utilize to generate data and run experiments supporting their work. Unfortunately, …
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Almost Open: Benefits, Challenges, and Design of an Authorized-access Research Data Enclave
Jeffrey R. Spies
Principal
221B Consulting
Rick O. Gilmore
Professor of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
Openness with minimal restrictions is ideal but sometimes not feasible. For example, openness can be impractical or impossible when …
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Artificial Intelligence: Impacts and Roles for Libraries
Keith Webster
Dean, University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Griffey
Director of Strategic Initiatives
National Information Standards Organization
Jason Griffey will present on the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and …
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Bringing Computational Access to Book-length Documents Via an ETD Pilot
William Ingram
Assistant Dean and Director of IT, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Libraries, in collaboration with Virginia Tech Department of …
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Building a Digital Preservation Strategy Across a Broad University System
Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Research and Development
University of California, Los Angeles
Edson Smith
Data Management Strategist
University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Elings
Assistant Director and Head of Technical …
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Building and Sustaining Community Infrastructure: An Update from the Research Organization Registry (ROR)
John Chodacki
Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) launched in early 2019 with a mission to provide open, trusted, and noncommercial infrastructure for research …
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Can We Talk? Adding a Smart Assistant Interface to Library Services
Greg Davis
Assistant Director of Assessment and Planning
Iowa State University
Lisa Smith
Director of Library IT
Iowa State University
The Iowa State University (ISU) Parks Library has been working with a third-party developer to create a smart …
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Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Hauser
Director, Research Computing
University of Colorado Boulder
Thea Lindquist
Director, Open and Digital Scholarship Services
University of Colorado Boulder
The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of …
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Challenges and Rewards of Community-Engaged Collection-Building: The Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium Digital Archive
Charlotte Nunes
Director of Digital Scholarship Services
Lafayette College
Nora Egloff
Digital Repository Librarian
Lafayette College
Janna Avon
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Lafayette College
Lafayette College Libraries Digital Scholarship …
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Collaborative Empowerment, Empowering Collaboration: The Carpentries at the University of Toronto
May Chan
Head, Metadata Services
University of Toronto
This session describes a pilot project that seeks to facilitate inclusive and equitable opportunities to learn core computational literacy and data science skills at the University of Toronto. The …
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Community Development Model for Digital Community Archives
Nathan Hall
Director, Digital Imaging and Preservation
Virginia Tech
This session will provide an update on the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant project (LG-15-19-0137-19), "Community Development Model for Digital …
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Connect, Collaborate, and Contribute in the Research Commons: Reflections from Three Years of Service Delivery
Meris Longmeier
Head of Research Services
The Ohio State University
This short update will cover how the model for planning for the Research Commons at Ohio State is working after the first three years. It will highlight successes from the planning …
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Connecting Digital Scholarship: Building Communities of Support at University of Michigan
Anne Cong-Huyen
Digital Scholarship Strategist, Library
University of Michigan
Joe Bauer
Digital Scholarship Research Consultant, College of Literature, Science, and Arts Technology Services
University of Michigan
When institutional pressure to …
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Creating a Virtual Reading Room at UC San Diego Library
Roger Smith
Interim AUL Collection Services, Director Digital Library Development Program
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Library has established a Virtual Reading Room (VRR) as a function built into …
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Crowdsourcing Inputs and Outputs of a Digital Photo Archive
Theresa Westbrock
Associate University Librarian
University of Northern Iowa
Fortepan Iowa is a historic digital photo archive launched in 2015 and based at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) featuring curated photos taken by ordinary Iowans in the …
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Data Curation Network Update
Lisa Johnston
Data Management/Curation Lead
University of Minnesota
Cynthia Hudson Vitale
Head Research Informatics and Publishing
Pennsylvania State University
Tim McGeary
Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and …
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Data Doubles: Student Perceptions of Privacy and Learning Analytics in Higher Education
Michael Perry
Head of Assessment & Planning
Northwestern University
Andrew Asher
Associate Professor and Assessment Librarian
Indiana University-Bloomington
The Data Doubles research project is a student-centered, IMLS-funded project that …
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Data Sharing from the Ground Up: Building Data Communities
Rebecca Springer
Analyst
Ithaka S+R
Danielle Cooper
Senior Researcher
Ithaka S+R
There is a growing consensus that research can progress more quickly, more innovatively, and more rigorously when scholars share data with each other. Policies and …
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A Demonstration of Annotation Interoperability
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns Hopkins University
Mark Patton
Senior Software Engineer
Johns Hopkins University
Through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Johns Hopkins and Tufts University are …
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Designing a Migration Path: Final Report and Recommendations
David Wilcox
Product Manager
LYRASIS
Jennifer Gilbert
Senior Technical Information Specialist
National Library of Medicine
Tim Shearer
Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and IT
University of North Carolina at Chapel …
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Developing a Community-Based Strategic Agenda for the Transformation of Archival Discovery and Delivery
Mark A. Matienzo
Assistant Director for Digital Strategy and Access, Libraries
Stanford University
Hillel Arnold
Assistant Director, Head of Digital Programs
Rockefeller Archive Center
Tom Cramer
Associate University Librarian for Digital …
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Developing an Open Source Digital Scholarly Research System: Local and Global Possibilities
Raymond Uzwyshyn
Director, Library Collections and Digital Services, Libraries
Texas State University
During the last five years, Texas State University Libraries has developed a successful, streamlined, open-source digital scholarly ecosystem …
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Electronic Lab Notebooks: Implementation, Evaluation, and Lessons Learned
Daureen Nesdill
Research Data Management Librarian
University of Utah
Harish Maringanti
Associate Dean for IT & Digital Library Services
University of Utah
Xuemao Wang
Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship
University of Cincinnati
Two …
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Encouraging the Ecosystem: Growing Unique Partnerships Through Data Science
Karim Boughida
Dean of University Libraries
University of Rhode Island
Joan Peckham
Professor, Computer Science/Big Data Collaborative Coordinator
University of Rhode Island
The evolving national data science ecosystem is encouraging libraries …
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The End of a Statewide Digital Preservation System: Coping with the Fallout
Todd Digby
Chair, Library Technology Services
University of Florida
Fletcher Durant
Head of Conservation and Preservation
University of Florida
This presentation will discuss how the University of Florida responded when the statewide digital …
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The Evolution of a Research Data Management and Curation Program: Candid Reflections and Considerations
Sophia Lafferty-Hess
Research Data Management Consultant
Duke University
Moira Downey
Digital Repository Content Analyst
Duke University
Research data management and curation programs situated within academic libraries have been growing and …
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Evolving with Agile into a New Technical Landscape: Cultivating a Sustainable DAMS Ecosystem
Megan Will
Senior Software Engineer
University of Texas at Austin
Dave Ronn
Software Developer/Analyst
University of Texas at Austin
In the past few years, the University of Texas at Austin Libraries have pushed to modernize their digital tools …
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Experimenting on a Digital Strategy
Kate Zwaard
Director of Digital Strategy
Library of Congress
Jaime Mears
Sr. Innovation Specialist
Library of Congress
Meghan Ferriter
Sr. Innovation Specialist
Library of Congress
Abigail Potter
Sr. Innovation Specialist
Library of …
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Experimenting with a Machine Generated Annotations Pipeline
Joshua Gomez
Head of Software Development & Library Systems
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles Library recently created a small subteam dedicated to conducting strategic software development …
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Fedora 6 and the Oxford Common File Layout
Andrew Woods
Technical Director
DuraSpace, Inc.
For the past several years the Fedora community has prioritized alignment with linked data best practices and modern web standards. We are now shifting our attention back to Fedora's digital preservation …
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Flipping Open Access Away from APCs
Nicky Agate
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communication and Projects, Libraries
Columbia University
Amy Buckland
Head, Research & Scholarship, Library
University of Guelph
Ellen Dubinsky
Scholarly Communication Librarian
University of …
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The Foundations of Discovery: A Short Summary of the Assessment of the Impacts of CLIR’s Cataloging Hidden Collections Program, 2008–2019
Joy M. Banks
Program Officer
CLIR
From 2008 to 2014, CLIR administered the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, which granted funds to catalog "hidden" collections of high scholarly value. Generously supported by The Andrew W. …
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The Future of OA: The Impact of Open Access on Readership and Subscription Decisions
Heather Piwowar
Cofounder
Our Research (Unpaywall)
Jason Priem
Cofounder
Our Research (Unpaywall)
A recent* large-scale study by the non-profit company Our Research (makers of Unpaywall) estimates that by 2025 44% of all journal articles will be …
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Guerrilla Governance and Program Review: Organizational Transformation in Collaborative Models
Bradley Daigle
Strategic and Content Expert/Chair NDSA Leadership
University of Virginia/APTrust
Joanne Kossuth
Principal 1MountainRoad, LLC and Chief Innovation Officer Mitchell College
Digital Library Federation
Across the library and archival …
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Health Sciences Data Archive
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns Hopkins University
Mara Blake
Manager of Data Services
Johns Hopkins University
The provost at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) asked the Libraries to update the existing …
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Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: The Landscape of Autonomy
Ben Shneiderman
Professor
University of Maryland
The next generation of user experiences will produce 1000-fold improvements in human capabilities. These new tools will amplify, augment, enhance, and empower people, just as the Web, email, search, …
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IIIF: What’s New and What’s Next with A/V and Discovery
Josh Hadro
Managing Director
IIIF Consortium
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has recently published the 3.0 beta versions of the Image and Presentation APIs, which now allow for the presentation and annotation of time-based …
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InstantILL: Simplifying Content Delivery With or Without Subscriptions
Tina Baich
Senior Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Content Strategies, Library
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
This presentation will share how Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Library has …
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An Institutional Research Data Discovery Tool: Open Source Technology and Cross-University Collaboration
Patricia G. Hinegardner
Associate Director for Resources
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Na Lin
Head, Resource Development and Sharing
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Research data sharing, required by many funding entities including US …
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Into the Dataspace: Data Science Services on the Ground
Mike Nutt
Associate Head, Data & Visualization Services, Libraries
North Carolina State University
Over the past five years, the North Carolina (NC) State University Libraries have engaged in a rapid experimentation and evaluation cycle aimed at …
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InvenioRDM: A Collaborative Next-Generation Research Data Management and Repository Solution
Kristi Holmes
Director, Galter Library and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics
Northwestern University
Thomas Morrell
Research Data Specialist, Library
California Institute of Technology
Slides: Morell, …
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It Took a Village: The Evolution of Samvera
Carolyn Caizzi
Head, Repository and Digital Curation, Libraries
Northwestern University
The aim of Samvera (formerly Hydra Project), both as a community and as a technology stack, is to work together to deliver common core repository functionality …
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Lever Press Update
Beth Bouloukos
Director of Lever Press
Amherst College
Lever Press, a library-funded Platinum Open Access book publishing initiative, was officially launched in 2016 by libraries committed to open access and the liberal arts. The nearly fifty member …
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Machine Learning in Research Libraries: A Snapshot of Projects, Opportunities and Challenges
Harish Maringanti
Associate Dean for IT & Digital Library Services
University of Utah
Elizabeth Lorang
Interim Associate Dean, University Libraries; Associate Professor and Humanities Librarian
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Zheng (John) …
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Maps, Gaps, Landscapes, and Ecosystems: Sorting Out the State of Online Scholarly Publishing
Terry Ehling
Managing Director, MIT Knowledge Futures Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Lewis
Dean of Libraries (emeritus)
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia Institute
This session …
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Memory Institutions and Deep Digital Disruption: Beyond the Technical Challenges of Born-digital Preservation
Carol Mandel
Distinguished Presidential Fellow
Council on Library and Information Resources
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
The presenters will share the work that each has been undertaking to frame and …
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Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge, and Making it FAIR
Marisa L Conte
Assistant Director, Research and Informatics, Taubman Health Sciences Library
University of Michigan
Peter Boisvert
Software Developer, Department of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
University of Michigan
This project …
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Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library
Rachel Deblinger
Director, Modern Endangered Archives Program
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles Library granting program, Documenting Global Voices, is now the Modern Endangered Archives Program. This new …
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The New Normal: Why Libraries are Teaching AI, ML, DH, NLP, VR…
Tim Dennis
Director, Library Data Science Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Indrani Mandal
Lecturer
University of Rhode Island
Vicky Steeves
Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility
New York University
Matthew …
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No One is Using That Anymore: Assessing the Impact of Digital Availability on Print Usage
Thomas Teper
Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Librarians speculate that the digitization and delivery of items through the HathiTrust may reduce or eliminate demand for …
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North Broad Press: A Collaborative Library/Press Publishing Program
Annie Johnson
Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications Specialist, Libraries
Temple University
The increase in the number of university presses reporting to their university libraries has brought opportunities for greater collaboration, …
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Opportunities for Academic Libraries to Shape National Approaches to Research Data Management: A Canadian Perspective
Jason Brodeur
Associate Director, Digital Scholarship Services
McMaster University
Lee Wilson
Service Manager
CARL Portage
Susan Haigh
Executive Director
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Research Data Management …
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Organizational Strategies to Support Emerging Needs in Areas Such As: Data Science, Technology Rich Spaces, and Experiential Learning
Mira Waller
Department Head, Research Engagement, Libraries
North Carolina State University
David Woodbury
Department Head, Learning Spaces & Services, Libraries
North Carolina State University
The changing needs and expectations of faculty, …
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Pay to Play: Licensing Local Television News Content
Morgan Gieringer
Head, Special Collections
University of North Texas
Local television news played a critical role in recording the social and cultural history of America for much of the 20th century, however, archival news film and video has not been …
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Perspectives on Digital Scholarship Programs
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
As part of the planning process for implementing digital scholarship programs, centers, and labs, there are some fundamental issues that should be discussed, analyzed, …
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Piloting Digital Scholarship Support at the Library of Congress
Eileen Jakeway
Innovation Specialist
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Digital Scholarship Working Group was founded in the spring of 2017 to explore how the Library currently enables the scholarly use of digital tools and methods and …
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Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project Next Steps
Roberta Sittel
Government Information Librarian
University of North Texas
Changing information publication and dissemination practices have disrupted workflows for collecting, describing, accessing, and preserving born-digital government information …
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A Progress Report on Open Repositories in Canada
Geoffrey Harder
Associate University Librarian & Admin Director, DSC; Co-chair of CARL's Open Repositories Working Group
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
This brief update will discuss the pace of progress being made by the Canadian …
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Project Canopus: Rethinking Preservation Infrastructure in Toronto, Ontario, and Beyond
Steve Marks
Digital Preservation Librarian
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto Libraries and Scholars Portal embarked on a joint project two years ago to re-architect the way we think about and do digital preservation. In light of the …
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Python Camp: Meeting the Demand for Computational Skills Through Open Technology and Reusable Curriculum
Laura Wrubel
Software Development Librarian
George Washington University
Lorena Barba
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
George Washington University
Megan Potterbusch
Data Services Librarian
George Washington University
Hannah …
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Reaching the Researchers: Using Geographic and Chronological Metadata to Facilitate Access to New Acquisitions
Christian Casey
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
All libraries change as collections grow. As a result, libraries must provide information about new acquisitions to the communities they serve. …
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Ready or Not: Here Comes Voice Search
Carl Grant
Interim Dean of University Libraries & CTO
University of Oklahoma
Today's children can be power users of the Internet, YouTube, and other technology before they even know how to read. These same children don't think twice about asking …
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Redesigning the Researcher Library Experience: Case Studies, Key Questions
Thomas Hickerson
Principle Investigator
University of Calgary
John Brosz
Project Coordinator
University of Calgary
Libraries have developed ways of designing their online user experience and student experience. What is our design method for …
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Refreshing the Agenda for Collaboration: Library, IT, and New Partners
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
When the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) was founded in 1990 by the Association of …
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Release of Digital Preservation Risk Analysis Documents by the National Archives (NARA)
Leslie Johnston
Director of Digital Preservation
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
In early September 2019, NARA released its complete digital preservation framework for public comment on GitHub: a File Format Risk and Prioritization …
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Responsible Operations: Shaping a Community Research Agenda
Thomas Padilla
Practitioner Researcher in Residence
OCLC Research
Sarah Shreeves
Vice Dean, Libraries
University of Arizona
In light of widespread interest, OCLC Research commissioned the development of a community research agenda that charts …
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Scanning for Science: Astronomy Data Rescue as a Learning Opportunity
Elisabeth Long
Associate University Librarian for IT and Digital Scholarship
University of Chicago
Converting analog data into digital form for use by scientists raises many questions. How good is good enough? Are library practices developed for …
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Shared Repository Infrastructure: Two Years Later
Jimmy Ghaphery
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Publishing
Virginia Commonwealth University
This short update will present current data to compare with the 2017 analysis of 115 bepress and other research university …
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Shareyourpaper.org: Simplifying Self-Archiving and Cutting the Cost of Mediated Repository Deposit
Leila Bella Sterman
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Montana State University
The Montana State University Library and the Open Access Button have collaborated to develop a tool that simplifies the repository deposit process for depositors so all …
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Skills, Knowledge, and Values for Prioritizing Privacy in Library Learning Analytics
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kyle M. L. Jones
Assistant Professor
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Learning analytics work extends long-standing library assessment and evaluation practices and they …
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Sprinting Toward a Lab: Network Building, Knowledge Sharing and Transforming Communities in Galleries, Archives, Libraries and Museums Through a Book Sprint
Caleb Derven
Head, Technical and Digital Services
University of Limerick
In late September 2019, a group of 16 librarians, developers, archivists, curators and academics from around the world landed in Doha, Qatar, to embark on a Book Sprint. …
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Teaching Data Curation for Reproducibility (Data CuRe)
Limor Peer
Associate Director for Research, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University
The evidence-based Data Curation for Reproducibility (Data CuRe) Training Program, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), …
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The Texas GeoData Portal: A New System for Enhancing Access to Geospatial
Michael Shensky
GIS & Geospatial Data Coordinator
University of Texas at Austin
In 2019 the University of Texas Libraries successfully completed development of its new Texas GeoData portal (https://geodata.lib.utexas.edu/) which has been designed …
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Toward Collaborative Models for Sustaining Digital Scholarship
Katrina Fenlon
Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
Digital collections and projects created by humanities scholars constitute extensive, valuable, scattered bodies of historical and cultural evidence. Born …
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Unlocking Opportunity: Using the JSTOR Platform to Get Library Special Collections into the Research Workflow Without a Paywall
Bruce Heterick
Senior Vice President, Open Collections and Infrastructure
ITHAKA
Libraries, museums, and archives hold rich and unique special collections that are critical to research, teaching, and learning. Yet these collections are often …
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Update on Funding Possibilities, Priorities, and Trends
Joshua Sternfeld
Senior Program Officer
National Endowment for the Humanities
Ashley Sands
Senior Library Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Becca Quon
Program Officer
Council on Library and Information Resources
Lucy …
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Update on Public Access Submission System (PASS)
Hanh Vu
IT Project Manager
Johns Hopkins University
Since its launch in 2018, Johns Hopkins has continued to work with partner institutions on advancing the PASS platform. Working with Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication and Libraries, we are …
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Visualizing Use and Performance Data from a Global Cross-platform Set of Institutional Repositories
Kenning Arlitsch
Dean of the Library
Montana State University
Jonathan Wheeler
Data Curation Librarian
University of New Mexico
Nikolaus Nova Parulian
Doctoral Student/LEADS Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Drexel …
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Watchful Eyes on Digital Preservation Action
Trevor Owens
Head of Digital Content Management
The Library of Congress
Daniel Noonan
Digital Preservation Librarian
The Ohio State University
Jane Mandelbaum
Independent
Jessica Meyerson
Director of Strategy & Research
Educopia …
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Webrecorder, Web Archiving for All: Past, Present and Future
Ilya Kreymer
Webrecorder Lead Developer
Rhizome/Webrecorder
Over the past several years, the Webrecorder project demonstrated a user-focused, smaller-scale approach to web archiving, prioritizing user experience and quality over quantity. This …
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When Research Data Requires Controls: Institutional Support for Regulated Research Environments
Jeremy Frumkin
Executive Director, Research Technologies
University of Arizona
The rapid growth and adoption of data science approaches to research bring new challenges and opportunities for managing research data. Interestingly, while there is a …
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