Patrick Yott
Associate Dean, Digital Strategies and Services, Libraries
Northeastern University
Terry Ann Jankowski
Assistant Director for User Experience
University of Washington
Tania P. Bardyn
Associate Dean & Director, Health Sciences …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Spring 2015 Membership Meeting
April 13-14, 2015
Seattle, WA
Download the Full Meeting Program/Schedule of Events (updated 4/9)
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The Academic Preservation Trust: Report on First Months of Production
Andrew Diamond
Senior Preservation Software & Systems Engineer
Academic Preservation Trust
Chip German
Program Director
Academic Preservation Trust
Nathan Tallman
Digital Content Strategist
University of Cincinnati
Jamie Little
Digital …
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Addressing Institutional Challenges to Providing Accessible Digital Content
Judy Ruttenberg
Program Director
Association of Research Libraries
Jonathan Lazar
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences
Towson University
Sheryl Burgstahler
Founder and Director, DO-IT Center
University of Washington
This session …
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Annotated Manuscripts in the IIIF Environment: Enhancing Scholarship and Creating Communities
Stephen Nichols
Professor Emeritus German and Romance Languages
Johns Hopkins University
Tamsyn Rose-Steel
CLIR/Mellon Fellow in Medieval Data Curatio
Johns Hopkins University
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns …
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BIBFLOW: A Roadmap for Library Linked Data Implementation
MacKenzie Smith
University Librarian
University of California, Davis
Carl G. Stahmer
Director of Digital Scholarship
University of California, Davis
Eric Miller
Co-Founder
Zepheira
BIBFLOW is an Institute of Museum and Library …
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Building a Vast Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Looks to the Future
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Program Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Institution
Nancy E. Gwinn
Chair, Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Institution
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of …
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Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective
Vivian Lewis
University Librarian
McMaster University
Lisa Spiro
Executive Director, Digital Scholarship Services
Rice University
Xuemao Wang
Dean and University Librarian
University of Cincinnati
Jon E. Cawthorne
Dean of Libraries
West …
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Challenges Presented by Institutional Identifiers
Karen Smith-Yoshimura
Program Officer
OCLC Research
Institutions wish to enhance and promote their reputation to attract funders and faculty and to increase their ranking. Since universities change their official names as part of branding activities, …
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Collaborating to Develop and Test Research Data Preservation Workflows
Geoff Harder
Associate University Librarian
University of Alberta
Leanne Trimble
Data and Geospatial Librarian
Scholars Portal
Dugan O’Neil
Chief Science Officer
Compute Canada
Brian Owen
Associate University Librarian
Simon Fraser …
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Digital Preservation Network Progress Report
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie
Services Manager
Digital Preservation Network
David Pcolar
Technical Manager
Digital Preservation Network
The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) has made significant progress in technical, legal, and service definition …
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Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: More than Notes
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Alan Wolf
Assistant Chief Information Officer for Advanced Computing
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Jan Cheetham
Research and Instructional Technologies …
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Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements
Oya Y. Rieger
Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Resources & Preservation Services
Cornell University
Mickey Casad
Curator for Digital Scholarship & Associate Curator
The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell …
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For the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: The Smithsonian’s Research Online (SRO), Supporting Smithsonian Institution’s Plan to Provide Increased Public Access to Federally Funded Publications and Digital Research Materials
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Associate Director, Libraries
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) is a key tool in the Smithsonian's goal to implement the White House's "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific …
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How Am I Doing? A Framework for IR Benchmarking
Ann Connolly
Director of Outreach and Scholarly Communication
bepress
A number of new rubrics purport to rank repositories against each other, as if to file them into a neat line from most to least successful. What are these rubrics actually …
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Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
Julie Hardesty
Metadata Analyst, Library Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington
Jon W. Dunn
Interim Assistant Dean for Library Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University (IU) has embarked on an ambitious plan to digitize …
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Innovative Uses of Islandora: Three Use Cases
Kristian Allen
Programmer/Analyst, Digital Library
University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
Simon Fraser University
Evelyn McLellan
President
Artefactual Systems Inc.
The Islandora repository platform is …
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Integrating Digital Epigraphies
Joshua D. Sosin
Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History
Director, Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing
Duke University
Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs) aims to provide core disciplinary infrastructure for the field …
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Integration of Research Literature and Data (InFoLiS)
Katarina Boland
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne (Germany)
Philipp Zumstein
Mannheim University Library (Germany)
The goal of the InFoLiS project is to connect research data and publications. Links between data and …
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Less Code, More Product: Leveraging Open Source Technologies to Develop Digital Library Collections
Robert Cartolano
Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services
Columbia University
Stephen Davis
Director, Libraries Digital Program Division
Columbia University
Carole Ann Fabian
Director, Avery Architectural and Fine …
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Managing Public Video Walls in an Academic Library
Shawna Sadler
Director, Digital Library & Innovation
Deakin University
Mike Nutt
Digital Media Librarian
North Carolina State University
Renee Reaume
Acting Associate University Librarian for Digital Library and Research …
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Microsoft Academic: Semantic Search and Proactive Discovery
Alex D. Wade
Director, Scholarly Communication
Microsoft Research
Web-scale search has been around for more than twenty years, and it is currently evolving beyond simple keyword based search to support better understanding of the content, large-scale …
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Mobile Technology Support for Field Research
Wayne Johnston
Head, Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication
University of Guelph
At the December 2013 CNI meeting I presented my early research on mobile technology support for field research. Since then I have a range of experience to report …
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Moving Ahead with Fedora 4
David Wilcox
Product Manager
DuraSpace
Robert Cartolano
Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services
Columbia University
Robin Ruggaber
Chief Technical Officer
University of Virginia
Jon Dunn
Interim Assistant Dean …
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Navigating Change in Software Sustainability and Business Models
Timothy M. McGeary
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Services
Duke University
Michael Winkler
Director, Information Technology and Digital Development
University of Pennsylvania
Carlen Ruschoff
Director of Technical …
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Networks of Expertise: A Model for Implementing and Sustaining New Information Services
Jon E. Cawthorne
Dean of Libraries
West Virginia University
John Culshaw
University Librarian
University of Iowa
Geneva Henry
University Librarian and Vice Provost for Libraries
George Washington University
Joy Kirchner
Associate University …
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New Library/IT Service Models
Allan Bell
Associate University Librarian, Digital Programs and Services
The University of British Columbia
Mark Dehmlow
Program Director, Library Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
"A Partnership and New Model for UBC Library IT in …
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On Building an Ontario Library Research Cloud for Shared and Distributed Digital Curation
Dale Askey
Associate University Librarian
McMaster University
Sian Meikle
Director, Information Technology Services
University of Toronto
Michael Vandenburg
Associate University Librarian
Queen’s University
The Ontario Library Research Cloud …
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Picture This! Supporting Data Visualization Research at Scale
Joe M. Williams
Director of Public Services, Library
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Carol Hunter
Deputy University Librarian, Associate University Librarian for Collections & Services
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jill …
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A Platform for Partnership: Collaborating Across UCLA Library and Campus
Jillian Cuellar
Head, Center for Primary Research & Training and Digital Initiatives, Library Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Jasmine Jones
Metadata and Technical Services Archivist
Smith College
Jennifer …
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Publishing Ada: A Retrospective Look at the First Three Years of an Open Peer Review Multi-modal Journal
Karen Estlund
Head, Digital Scholarship Center
University of Oregon
Sarah Hamid
Fembot Webmistress / Graduate Research Fellow
University of Oregon
Bryce Peake
Julie & Rocky Dixon Doctoral Research Fellow in Graduate Innovation
Intel Labs / …
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Setting a Security and Privacy Agenda: Report from a CNI Workshop
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
In early March CNI convened a small workshop to develop a near term agenda for work needed to improve security and privacy in systems related to scholarly communication and access …
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SHARE Project Update
Judy Ruttenberg
Program Director
Association of Research Libraries
Jeff Spies
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
Center for Open Science
In April 2015, SHARE (Shared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science will release SHARE …
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Simplifying Learning Analytics via the Caliper Analytics™ Framework (CANCELED)
CANCELED
Lisa Mattson
Chief Operating Officer
IMS Global Learning Consortium
As online, digital learning continues to grow, the ease of use of digital content, courseware, tools, and apps within the institutional setting and the interoperability of …
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Social Networks and Archival Context: From R&D to Cooperative Program
Daniel Pitti
Associate Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
University of Virginia
Brian Tingle
Technical Lead, Access & Publishing, California Digital Library
University of California
Social Networks and Archival …
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Software Curation as a Digital Preservation Service
Keith Webster
Dean of Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
Euan Cochrane
Digital Preservation Manager
Yale University
Libraries have served their universities in part through their robust access to and preservation of the scholarly …
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Space: Describing and Assessing Library and Other Learning Spaces
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Bob Fox
Dean of Libraries
University of Louisville
Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research …
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Stewarding the Scholarly Record at the University of Arizona
Maliaca Oxnam
Associate Librarian, Vitae Project Manager, Libraries
University of Arizona
Kimberly Chapman
Director, Campus Repository Services
University of Arizona
Jeremy Frumkin
Assistant Dean for Technology Strategy
University of …
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Think Different! The Value of Reading-list Technology in Better Integrating Libraries in Online Learning Environments
Carl Grant
Associate Dean of Knowledge Services and Chief Technology Officer, Libraries
University of Oklahoma
Tamar Sadeh
Director of Discovery and Delivery Strategy
Ex Libris Group
Academic libraries face sizable challenges in …
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Transforming Organizations Through New Partnerships, Collaboration, and Agile Development
Xuemao Wang
Dean and University Librarian
University of Cincinnati
Nelson Vincent
Vice President of Informational Technology, Chief Information Officer
University of Cincinnati
Linda Newman
Head, Digital Collections and Repositories
University …
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Visualization on the Big Screen: Hands-on Immersive Environments Designed for Student and Faculty Collaboration
Bryan Sinclair
Associate Dean, Public Services, Library
Georgia State University
Jill Sexton
Head of Digital Research Services, Libraries
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Joseph Hurley
Interim Director, Collaborative University Research …
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What Price Open Access?
Stuart Shieber
James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
Ralf Schimmer
Head of Information
Max Planck Digital Library
Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
This …
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