Chad Hutchens
Head of Digital Collections
University of Wyoming
Tyler Kerr
Coe Student Innovation Center Makerspace Coordinator
University of Wyoming
Two years ago, the University of Wyoming (UW) Libraries and Geological Museum began 3D scanning …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Spring 2019 Membership Meeting
April 8 – April 9, 2019
St. Louis, Missouri
See also Meeting Schedule (via mobile web app SCHED) & Schedule of Events PDF.
Advancements in the ORCID US Community: Supporting Researchers & Adding Value for Research Institutions
Sheila Rabun
ORCID US Community Specialist
LYRASIS
Karen Estlund
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Pennsylvania State University
Jason Ronallo
Department Head, Digital Library Initiatives
North Carolina State …
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Alternative RDM Service Models for Smaller Research Libraries
Andrew White
Director, Library Information Services
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A number of large research libraries have established institutional repositories in an effort to support research data management (RDM). While this model …
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Amplifying our Impact: Merging LYRASIS and DuraSpace
Erin Tripp
Executive Director
DuraSpace
Robert Miller
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
LYRASIS
DuraSpace and LYRASIS are working together to improve the sustainability of their programs and increase impact in every sector of the academic, …
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Beyond Tools and Space: Building a Community of Practice for Making
Beth Marhanka
Head of the Gelardin New Media Center
Georgetown University
Don Undeen
Maker Hub Manager
Georgetown University
Makerspaces are defined less by the tools they contain, and more by the communities of practice that develop within them. …
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Bridge2Hyku: Building the Bridge towards an Open Source Digital Solution
Annie Wu
Head of Metadata and Digitization Services
University of Houston
Santi Thompson
Head of Digital Research Services
University of Houston
The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was …
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Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
Kevin S. Hawkins
Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication, Libraries
University of North Texas
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the …
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Building Systems Interoperability for User Discovery of High-Density Storage Collections
Bob Fox
Dean, University Libraries
University of Louisville
Bruce Keisling
Associate Dean
University of Louisville
Jeff Carrico
Associate Dean
Georgia Institute of Technology
Most libraries at some point deal with the inherent conflict …
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Building up an Open Data Publishing Community: An Update from Dryad & CDL
Daniella Lowenberg
Product Manager
California Digital Library - University of California
Günter Waibel
Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director
California Digital Library - University of California
At the CNI fall 2018 meeting, California …
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Collaborating with Data: Building a Partnership with an Electrophysiology Researcher
Jason Bengtson
Head of Information Technology Services
Kansas State University Libraries
As part of a National Institutes of Health supplemental grant-funded data curation project, Dr. Brenda Farrell (of the Baylor College of Medicine) and the …
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Collecting, Correlating, Stitching, Enriching: How Commercial Publishers are Creating Value by Profiling Users
David Lacy
Director, Library Technology & Knowledge Management
Temple University
Cody Hanson
Director, Web Development, Libraries
University of Minnesota
Patron privacy has a deep, historical presence in libraries, a presence increasing in …
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Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation (CS3DP)
Jennifer Moore
Data Services Coordinator
Washington University in St. Louis
Adam Rountrey
Research Museum Vertebrate Collection Manager
University of Michigan
Hannah Scates Kettler
Digital Humanities Research and Subject Librarian
University of …
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Coordinating Preservation, Description, Discovery, and Access: The University of Illinois Experience
Chris Prom
Associate Dean for Digital Strategies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heidi Imker
Associate Dean for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For the past several years, the Library at the University of Illinois …
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Cuban Digitization Database: Tools for Managing a Collaborative Cross-Institutional Digitization Effort
Todd Digby
Chair, Library Technology Services
University of Florida
The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries is engaged in a multi-year project with international partners to identify and digitize published materials pertaining to Cuba …
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Data Protection Strategies at Yale University Library
Bob Rice
Technical Lead - Library IT DevOps and Infrastructure
Yale University
This presentation will describe the strategies being used by Yale University Library Information Technology (IT) to protect repository and application data. The strategies …
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Data Science Support for Social Science Research
Christina Maimone
Research Data Services Lead, Research Computing Services
Northwestern University
Alex Storer
Research Analytics Consultant, Research Support Services, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Social science research …
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Design Thinking for Library Services: Library as Research Lab
Justin Schell
Director, Shapiro Design Lab, Library
University of Michigan
Meghan Sitar
Director, Connected Scholarship, Library
University of Michigan
Laurie Alexander
Associate University Librarian - Teaching & Learning
University of …
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Developing 3D Scanning as a Library Service: Experiences from a Pilot Program at OU Libraries
Kristi Wyatt
Emerging Technologies Librarian
University of Oklahoma
Zenobie S. Garrett
CLIR Postdoc in 3D and VR Software Curation
University of Oklahoma
Academic libraries are evolving into places not just where knowledge is retrieved, but where …
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Developing an Open Source Digital Collections Management System Using Scrum
Kathryn Michaelis
Digital Projects Coordinator
Georgia State University
Jordan Bass
Library Technology Project Manager & Web Services Unit Lead
Georgia State University
In 2017, the Georgia State University Library decided to replace its …
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Digital Preservation Projects
Tracy Seneca
Head, Digital Programs and Services
University of Illinois at Chicago
Jordan Bass
Coordinator, Research Services and Digital Strategies
University of Manitoba
Natalie Vielfaure
Digital Curation Archivist
University of …
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Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action
Scott Ziegler
Head, Digital Programs and Services, Libraries
Louisiana State University
Our digital collections can reinforce legacies of racism in our institutions or actively work against them. When selecting material in archives and special …
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The DiSH (Digital Skills Hub): A Place to Learn What You Need to Know Before Using the Latest Technologies
Carl Grant
Dean (Interim)
University of Oklahoma
Tara Carlisle
Head, Digital Scholarship Lab
University of Oklahoma
DiSH (Digital Skills Hub) is a replicable initiative for universities, particularly university libraries, to teach students, staff …
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The Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC)
Jennifer Schopf
Director, EPOC; Director, International Networks
Indiana University
The Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) is a production platform for operations, applied training, monitoring, and research and education support. …
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Evolving Statewide Digital Libraries
Gina Costello
Associate Dean, Technology and Special Collections
Louisiana State University
Jason Battles
Deputy University Librarian
University of Georgia
Governance, operations, and technology infrastructure vary among statewide digital …
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Explaining the Origins, Vision and Activities of the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC)
Thomas Cheatham
Professor / Director of Research Computing
University of Utah
Dana Brunson
Executive Director for Researcher Engagement
Internet2
Gail Krovitz
Community Engagement Manager
Internet2
Patrick Schmitz
Associate Director of …
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FedPreserve: Preserving the Historical Record of the Federal Reserve System
Aaron Collie
FRASER & FedPreserve Program Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
In 2018, the Conference of First Vice Presidents of the Federal Reserve System approved FedPreserve, a commercial off-the-shelf on-premises digital preservation …
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Flexibility and Pragmatism: Thinking Differently about “Better” for Digital Preservation Services
Jefferson Bailey
Director, Web Archiving
Internet Archive
Chip German
Program Director, Academic Preservation Trust
University of Virginia
Nicholas Taylor
Program Manager, LOCKSS and Web Archiving
Stanford University
Conversations …
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Holistic Approaches to Research Data Management: Scholars as Collectors
Oya Y. Rieger
Senior Advisor
Ithaka S+R
Danielle Cooper
Senior Researcher
Ithaka S+R
In conjunction with their research and teaching activities, scholars create and assemble complex personal collections of information. These collections vary …
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An Innovative Program for Large-Scale Visualization Displays
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns Hopkins University
Edwina Picon
Graduate Student
Johns Hopkins University
The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins have launched an innovative program using its large-scale …
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An Institutional Perspective to Rescue Scholarly Orphans
Martin Klein
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Herbert Van de Sompel
Chief Innovation Officer
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Increasingly, scholars across disciplines and throughout the research life cycle are using a wide variety …
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Introducing ROR: The Research Organization Registry
Maria Gould
Product Manager / Research Data Specialist
California Digital Library - University of California Office of the President
ROR is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research …
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Islandora 8: New Release and the Future of the Platform
Melissa Anez
Project & Community Manager
Islandora Foundation
Codenamed Islandora CLAW during development, Islandora 8.x is an upgrade that brings together Drupal 8 with modern Fedora. A major re-architecting from Islandora 7.x, this newest …
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Is Openness Really Worth It? Rethinking the ROI of Open
Jeffrey Spies
Principal
221B Consulting
Cynthia Hudson Vitale
Head, Digital Scholarship & Data Services
Pennsylvania State University
Shan Sutton
Dean of University Libraries
University of Arizona
It is imperative that openness in …
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Libraries and VR: Ongoing Initiatives at University of New Mexico
Kevin Comerford
Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication
University of New Mexico
Virtual reality (VR) technology and tools continue to develop apace, and while high-end VR labs and research initiatives have become fairly ubiquitous …
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Library Education and Data Science for the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP)
Jane Greenberg
Alice B. Kroger Professor, Director of the Metadata Research Center, Information Science Department, College of Computing and Information Science
Drexel University
Xia Lin
Professor, Department Head, Information Science Department, …
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Locking the Higher Ed Infrastructure Market Open for Competition
Heather Joseph
Executive Director
SPARC
The academic publishing industry is undergoing a major transition, moving from content-provision to a data analytics business. Publishers are selling new products across higher education institutions - including …
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Managing Digital Institutional Content: Repository Projects
Evviva Weinraub
Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technologies
Northwestern University
Kim Pham
Information Technologies Librarian
University of Denver
Jack Maness
Associate Dean
University of Denver
A Vertical Integration …
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OCFL: A Community Developed Approach to Digital Preservation
Andrew Woods
Technical Director
DuraSpace
Rosalyn Metz
Director, Library Technology and Digital Strategies
Emory University
Simeon Warner
Director of Linked Data and Repository Architecture
Cornell University
The Oxford Common File Layout …
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Of Data, Ethics, and Leadership: Building a National Roadmap for Web Privacy and Web Analytics
Scott W. H. Young
User Experience & Assessment Librarian
Montana State University
Jason Clark
Head, Special Collections and Archival Informatics
Montana State University
Sara Mannheimer
Data Management Librarian
Montana State …
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Part to Whole Kickoff: Redefining Roles and Services to Support Collections as Data
Thomas Padilla
Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Hannah Scates Kettler
Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Iowa
Amanda Henley
Head of Digital Research Services
University of North Carolina Chapel …
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Pivotal Role of the Institutional Repository Service in University Reporting Workflows
Mohamed Baessa
Manager, Preservation & Digital Services
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
J. K. Vijayakumar
Director, University Library
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
While the adoption of …
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The Power of Community: Working Together to Build the Future of Fedora
David Wilcox
Product Manager
DuraSpace
Este Pope
Head of Digital Programs
Amherst College
Rosalyn Metz
Director of Library Technology and Digital Strategies
Emory University
Maurice York
Associate University Librarian for Library …
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Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
Jan Fransen
Service Lead for RIM Systems
University of Minnesota
Rebecca Bryant
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
Research information management (RIM) systems, also often called Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), aggregate, curate, …
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Professionalizing Research IT Roles to Improve Recruitment and Retention
Patrick Schmitz
Associate Director, Research IT
University of California, Berkeley
The role of Research IT (computing, data, and related infrastructure and services) has grown rapidly, and it has increasing and crosscutting importance to the …
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Project ReShare: A Community-Owned Resource Sharing Infrastructure
Sebastian Hammer
Co-founder and President
Index Data
Sydney Thompson
Department Head of Access Services
North Carolina State University / Triangle Research Libraries Network
The ReShare Community is a group of libraries, consortia (Big Ten …
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Purposeful Space Design for Libraries
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Kelly Miller
Associate Dean for Learning and Research Services
University of Miami
Thomas Hickerson
Principal Research Investigator
University of Calgary
CNI …
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A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual OCR
Ryan Cordell
Associate Professor of English
Northeastern University
This talk will outline the primary findings and recommendations of a report written for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that seeks to describe the current state of optical character …
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Research Innovation Trends and Priorities in Canadian Research Libraries
Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Manager
OCLC Research
Vivian Lewis
University Librarian
McMaster University
In 2018 the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and OCLC Research partnered to conduct a survey of research libraries in Canada. …
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Research Intelligence, Repurposed Data, and Reputation: The Evolution of VIVO Implementations at Duke and Texas A&M Universities
Bruce E. Herbert
Director, Office of Scholarly Communications
Texas A&M University
Julia K. Trimmer
Director, Faculty Data Systems & Analysis
Duke University
VIVO is member-supported, open source software and ontology for the …
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Research Lifecycles are Snazzy, but What in the Abyss Do I Do with My Data?
Cynthia Hudson Vitale
Head, Research Informatics & Publishing
Pennsylvania State University
Karen Estlund
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Pennsylvania State University
Greg Madden
Senior Advisor for Research Computing …
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Scaling Software Emulation Services: An Introduction to the EaaSI Program of Work
Seth Anderson
Software Preservation Program Manager
Yale University
The Scaling Emulation and Software Preservation Infrastructure (EaaSI) program is expanding the capabilities of the Emulation-as-a-Service model to enable broader access and use of …
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Scholarly Output Projects
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Associate Director, Libraries
Smithsonian Institution
Paul Albert
Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Terrie Wheeler
Director, Samuel J. Wood Library
Weill Cornell Medicine
"Managing Scholarly Research Output: The …
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Services & Resources to Support Students
J. K. Vijayakumar
Director, University Library
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia
Garry Hall
Special Projects Lead, Library
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia
Todd …
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Students’ Growing Concern with Surveillance Capitalism
Jim Hahn
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian, Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
With research funding from the University of Illinois Campus Research Board, a personalized account-based recommender was …
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Sustainability for Project-Based Collaborative Work: Leveraging Service Level Agreements and Virtual Teams
Franny Gaede
Head, Digital Scholarship Services
University of Oregon
Ray Henry
Supervisor, Library Applications Programming
University of Oregon
Kate Thornhill
Digital Projects and Engagement Librarian
University of Oregon
In 2018, the …
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The Technology Roadmap: A Practical Method for Adaptive and Systemic Strategic Planning
Maurice York
Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology
University of Michigan
Medium- and long-term strategic planning for technology, whether it be for one product or a whole portfolio, is a tricky business. Trying to project …
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Towards Coherence through Collective Action: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable, Open Infrastructure
Maurice York
Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology
University of Michigan
Evviva Weinraub
Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technologies
Northwestern University
Heather Joseph
Executive …
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UC and Elsevier: A Blueprint for Publisher Negotiations
Jeff MacKie-Mason
University Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Günter Waibel
Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director
California Digital Library
Mathew Willmott
Open Access Collection Strategist
California Digital …
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Variations in Public Scholarship Works: Examining The Impact of Three Related Scholarly Digital Projects on Present and Future Resources
Wayne Morse Jr.
Co-Director, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Emory University
Public scholarship through digital humanities can be accomplished in multiple ways; even projects related by similar objectives can reach their goals in different …
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Web Archives Analysis at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Cloud
Nick Ruest
Associate Librarian
York University
Ian Milligan
Associate Professor
University of Waterloo
Web archives, repositories of born-digital information dating back to the Internet Archive and national libraries in the mid-1990s, are …
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We Need More Science in Our Open Science: A Grand Challenges Based Research Agenda
Chris Bourg
Director of Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sue Kriegsman
Deputy Director, Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Micah Altman
Director of …
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Working Toward Section 508 Zen
Sheila Yeh
Associate Dean for Collections, Discovery, and Information Services
Kansas State University
Jason Bengtson
Head of IT Services, Libraries
Kansas State University
On January 18, 2018, the revised standards covered by section 508 of the …
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