Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting
April 12-13, 2010
Baltimore, MD
Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Time to Speak Up. Collaborative and Open Software Development Directions for Libraries, Archives and Museums
James Michalko
Vice President, OCLC Research
OCLC, Inc.
David A. Greenbaum
Director, Data Services
University of California, Berkeley
Beth Sandore
Associate Dean, Assoicate University Librarian for Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at …
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Big Digital Machine
The Big Digital Machine (BDM) is the name for a concept that aggregates and integrates a set of capabilities to provide universities the ability to manage their scholarly output. In particular, the BDM aims to provide for the production, distribution, …
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Collaboration Between Mathematical Modeling at Stanford and Discovery of Digital Content at the Library of Congress
Jane Mandelbaum
Systems Development Manager
Library of Congress
Margot Gerritsen
Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering
Stanford University
The Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (iCME) at Stanford and the …
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Digital Libraries and Long-term Access for the Rest of Us: The University of Alabama Acumen Experience
Tom Wilson
Associate Dean for Library Technology
University of Alabama
Jody DeRidder
Head, Digital Services
University of Alabama
Tonio Loewald
Senior Programmer/Analyst
University of Alabama
Digital library management software and attempts …
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Digital Scholarship in an Academic Research Library: UVa’s Scholars’ Lab
Bethany Nowviskie
Director, Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia
Michael Furlough
Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications
Pennsylvania State University
Anne Houston
Director, Humanities and Social Science …
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Discussion of an Open, Safe Harbor Initiative
David Carlson
Dean, library Affairs
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
This session will include a presentation and discussion of the concept of a safe harbor initiative. In such an effort, libraries would publicly commit to set …
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DLO to Go: Fostering Instructional Use of New Media
Sandra G. Yee
Dean
Wayne State University
Jonathan McGlone
Digital Collections Librarian
Wayne State University
Joshua Neds-Fox
Web Librarian
Wayne State University
Nardina Mein
Director, New Media & Info Technology, Library Computing …
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DuraCloud: Preservation Infrastructure in the Cloud
Andrew Woods
DuraCloud Architect
DuraSpace
In September 2009 the DuraSpace organization launched its pilot program for DuraCloud. DuraCloud is an open platform that makes it easy for users to utilize cloud infrastructure for data storage, data …
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An Enterprise IT Approach to Museum and Research Collections on Campus?
David A. Greenbaum
Director, Data Services
University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Schmitz
Semantic Services Architect
University of California, Berkeley
The campus information technology (IT) division at the University of California, …
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Faculty Attitudes 2009: Findings from the Latest Ithaka S+R Survey
This session will include a presentation of findings from the latest in a series of nationwide surveys of faculty members. These triennial surveys, conducted since 2000, have examined faculty attitudes as authors, teachers, and researchers on a variety of …
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FloraGREIF: A Virtual Flora of Mongolia
Anne Zemmrich
Graduate Research Associate
University of Greifswald
Reinhard Zoelitz
Professor, Institute of Geography and Geology, Chair of Cartography and GIS
University of Greifswald
FloraGREIF is an Internet-accessible database providing …
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From the Researcher’s Point of View: Support for Research Workflows
Jennifer Schaffner
Program Oficer
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
OCLC Research and the Research Information Network (RIN) in the UK are conducting a collaborative research project to examine what information-related tools and services …
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Generalizing the Subject Repository: An Investigation into Potential Best Practices
Jessica Adamick
Ethics Clearinghouse Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
InterNano Project Manager/Science Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Subject repositories serve a similar function within their …
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InCommon: Growing into the Future
Kevin Morooney
Vice Provost for Information Technology
Pennsylvania State University
InCommon is the leading trust federation in higher education today. Since its inception in 2004, InCommon has grown to support over 200 universities and their …
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Interoperable Annotation: A Reference Implementation for the Open Annotation Collaboration
Doug Reside
Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Dave Lester
Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Trevor Owens
Community …
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Learning Commons: What’s Working?
John Culshaw
Associate Director for Administrative Services
University of Colorado at Boulder
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Anu Vedantham
Director, Weigle Information Commons
University of …
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As Lives Are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
There has been a good deal of descriptive analysis in recent years of the ways in which personal life histories are being documented in digital forms. This session will include a …
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Mapping the Sanctuary of the Great Gods
Michael Page
Coordinator, Geospatial Services
Emory University
Located on the island of Samothrace in the Northern Aegean, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods was an important Hellenic and pre-Hellenic religious sanctuary. The site has been subject to …
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myBucknell 2.0
Param Bedi
Chief Information Officer
Bucknell University
Bucknell University staff concluded that the four-year-old campus portal was not meeting the needs of faculty, staff and students. This session will share the portal redesign story and …
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New Discovery and Search Tools
Ching-hsien Wang
Manager, Libraries & Archives System Support Branch
Smithsonian Insitution
Keith Jeffers
Director, IT Services
National Library of Australia
Making Square Pegs Fit: A Case Study for a Common Search Center for Libraries, …
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Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability
Richard Marciano
Director of the Sustainable Archives & Leveraging Technologies (SALT) Group
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Pcolar
Research and Development Lead, Carolina Digital Repository (CDR)
University of North Carolina, …
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Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions: Cooperative Strategies for Distributed Digital Preservation
Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor
University of North Texas
Katherine Skinner
Program Manager
MetaArchive Cooperative
The digital preservation field is still emerging, but is a critical challenge for libraries, archives, …
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Real Data; Real World; Real Stories
Jackie Carter
Mimas Manager, Social Science Data and Learning & Teaching Services Mimas
University of Manchester
This session focuses on a project with a goal of producing some evidence of how faculty use real world data resources, and …
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Research Repositories & Publications Management Systems
Janet Copsey
University Librarian
University of Auckland
This presentation will provide an overview of the project to integrate the University of Auckland Library's DSpace repository (ResearchSpace) with the University's planned publications …
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ROI: Measuring the Library's Contribution to the Academic Enterprise
Mary Ellen K. Davis
Executive Director
Association of College & Research Libraries
Lori A. Goetsch
Dean of Libraries
Kansas State University and Association of College & Research Libraries
ACRL Project Briefing Proposal ROI: Measuring the …
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ROI: Measuring the Library’s Contribution to the Academic Enterprise
Mary Ellen K. Davis
Executive Director
Association of College & Research Libraries
Lori A. Goetsch
Dean of Libraries
Kansas State University and Association of College & Research Libraries
ACRL Project Briefing Proposal ROI: Measuring the …
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Scientific Data and Electronic Publishing: Examining Two Projects
Mark Cyzyk
Scholarly Communication Architect
Johns Hopkins University
David Reynolds
Manager of Scholarly Digital Initiatives
Johns Hopkins University
Maarten Hoogerwerf
Project Manager
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Renze …
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Standards and Best Practices for Datasets and Other Supplemental Journal Article Materials
Paul Bracke
Associate Dean, Digital Programs and Information Access
Purdue University
Stephen Abrams
Director, Digital Preservation
University of California
Karen A. Wetzel
Standards Program Manager
National Information Standards Organization …
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Status Report: NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project
Howard Besser
Professor and Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Progam
New York University
Kara van Malssen
Research Specialist
New York University
Joe Pawletko
Software Systems Architect
New York University
Preserving Digital …
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Taking the Library Outside the Library: A Light-weight Innovation Model for Heavy-weight Economic Times
Dean B. Krafft
Chief Technology Strategist
Cornell University
Dianne Dietrich
Research Data & metadata Librarian
Cornell University
Baseema B. Krkoska
Coordinator of Reference, Instruction & Business Information Programs
Cornell …
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Turning Curators into Web Publishers: Expanding the Digital Library Program Within the Institution
Stephen P. Davis
Director of Library Systems
Columbia University
Janet Gertz
Director, Preservation and Digital Conversion Divison
Columbia University
Joanna DiPasquale
Web and New Technologies Developer, Libraries Digital Program
Columbia …
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Using Digital Video for Research – Getting Beyond YouTube: Segmenting, Annotating and Archiving Digital Video Using the Annotator’s Workbench
William G. Cowan
Software Development Manager
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Indiana University
The Annotator's Workbench is an open source application developed at Indiana University for the segmentation and annotation of …
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VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists
Dean B. Krafft
Chief Technology Strategist
Cornell University
Valrie Davis
Outreach Librarian for Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida
VIVO is an open-source semantic Web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship …
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Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community
Andrew Bonamici
Associate University Librarian for Media and Educational Technologies
University of Oregon
Heather Briston
Richard and Mary Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist
University of Oregon
Kevin Hatfield
Adjunct Assistant …
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What to Retain? A Framework for Managing Change in the System-wide Book Collection
Constance Malpas
Program Officer
RLG Programs OCLC Research
In 2009/10, the 'Cloud Library' project tested the proposition that a significant proportion of books in an academic research library could be more cost-effectively sourced from …
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