Emerging Technologies

Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives and Museums, an International Network (Lightning Talk) (November '25)

Abigail Potter, Library of Congress

Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed (November '25)

Bohyun Kim, University of Michigan
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Jamie Wittenberg, University of Colorado Boulder

A Complex Network: The Getty Provenance Index (November '25)

David Newbury, Getty
Lily Pregill, Getty

Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows (November '25)

Rosalyn Metz, Emory University
Miri Botzer, Clarivate
Allen Jones, The New School
Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Evan Simpson, Northeastern University

From Principles to Practice: Developing Artificial Intelligence Applications for Discovery in the Academic Library Space (November '25)

Matthew Hartman, Stony Brook University
Michael Napoleone, EBSCO Information Services
Timothy Kohn, Stony Brook University
Lucy Campbell, San Diego State University
Keven Jeffery, San Diego State University

Getting to the Table—Library Leading Artificial Intelligence by Example (Lightning Talk) (November '25)

Doralyn Rossmann, Montana State University

Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Metadata Workflows: A Collection of Case Studies (November '25)

Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University
Kate James, OCLC
Jill Reilly, National Archives and Records Administration

Models, Contexts, and Protocols: Who Controls the Data? (Lightning Talk) (November '25)

Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis

Partnering to Advance Access and Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications (November '25)

Allison Levy, Brown University
Sara Jo Cohen, University of Michigan
Victoria Hindley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero, University of Guam
Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University

Project Update: Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Digital Accessibility Needs (Lightning Talk) (November '25)

Cory Tressler, The Ohio State University

Scaling Data Support: Collaborative Models for Sustainable Services (November '25)

Shannon Ricci, North Carolina State University
Michelle Thompson Gumbs, New York University
Mara Blake, North Carolina State University
Lauren Di Monte, Yale University
Rebecca Dikow, Yale University

Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects (March '25)

Douglas Boyd, University of Kentucky
Hope Dunbar, University at Buffalo
Rachel Senese Myers, Georgia State University

Beyond “This Image May Contain:” Using Vision Language Models to Improve Accessibility for Digital Image Collections (March '25)

Peter Broadwell, Stanford University
Lindsay King, Stanford University

HBS Knowledge: Building a Foundation for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Discovery (March '25)

David Nuñez, Harvard Business School
Erin Wise, Harvard Business School

Preserving Billions of Photos? Try Data Lifeboat (March '25)

George Oates, Flickr Foundation

Studio X: From Vision to Impact — Advancing Extended Reality Research and Education (March '25)

Meaghan Moody, University of Rochester

An Update on Developing The Public Interest Corpus (March '25)

Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Thomas Padilla, Authors Alliance

Washington University Libraries and the Digital Intelligence and Innovation Accelerator (DI2): Partnering in Digital Transformation (March '25)

Mimi Calter, Washington University in St Louis
Jennifer Moore, Washington University in St Louis
Kelly Walker-Moseley, Washington University in St Louis

Yale Library Governance and Technical Infrastructure to Fuel Innovation (March '25)

Ray Frohlich, Yale University
Dale Hendrickson, Yale University

Update on Leadership Transition and Survey of Developments, Trends, and Prospects (January '25)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges (November '24)

Rosalyn Metz (Moderator), Emory University
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Annie Johnson, University of Delaware
Debra Hanken Kurtz, Florida State University
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie, University at Buffalo
Tim Shearer, University North Carolina Chapel Hill

Artificial Intelligence Modeling & Inference as a Service (November '24)

Peter Leonard, Stanford University

Connecting the Dots to Overcome Access Using Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) (Lightning Round) (November '24)

James English, Lyrasis

Generative Artificial Intelligence Innovation for Libraries and Learning (November '24)

Greg Ritter, Amazon Web Services
Sarah Ben Mamaar, Weill Cornell Medicine
Cory Tressler, Ohio State University
Joe Naccarato, University of Delaware

Open Forum for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) (November '24)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

Personal and Collaborative Knowledge Management Systems: Infrastructure for Idea Management and Research Development (November '24)

Brian Mathews, Carnegie Mellon University

Reimagining Discovery: Transforming Access to Collections with Artificial Intelligence-Driven Exploration (November '24)

Carolyn Caizzi, Harvard University
Amy Deschenes, Harvard University
Stu Snydman, Harvard University

Testing and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven Search and AI-Assisted Description at the National Archives (Lightning Round) (November '24)

Jill Reilly, National Archives and Records Administration

Three Levels of Academic Open Source Support Structures (November '24)

Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
Amber Budden, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vessela Ensberg, University of California, Davis
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
David Lippert, George Washington University

A Vision for an Artificial Intelligence-Savvy Library Community (Lightning Round) (November '24)

Vessela Ensberg, University of California, Davis

3D Digital Herbarium & 3D Exhibits4Learning (March '24)

Cyril Oberlander, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
AJ Bealum, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Academic Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Building Collaboration Among Libraries, IT, Faculty, and Students at San Diego State University (March '24)

Scott Walter, San Diego State University
James Frazee, San Diego State University
EJ Sobo, San Diego State University
Abir Mohamed, San Diego State University

Cloud Labs and Self-Driving Laboratories Update and Futures (March '24)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Cliff Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information

In Conversation with Daniel Reed (March '24)

Daniel Reed, University of Utah and National Science Board
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information

Future-Proofing Research Data Repositories: Keeping Up With the Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Revolution (March '24)

Stephanie Labou, Data Science Librarian, University of California, San Diego

Handling Academic Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Research Questions as the Law Develops (March '24)

Jonathan Band, Counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance
Timothy Vollmer, University of California, Berkeley

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: An Organic Funding Model To Incubate Library Transformation (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Zhiwu Xie, University of California Riverside

Linked Data in Production: Moving Beyond Ontologies (March '24)

David Newbury, Getty

National Research Platform: Open Cyberinfrastructure for Research (March '24)

Mahidhar Tatineni, San Diego Supercomputer Center

National Information Standards Organization’s Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending (IS-CDL) Recommended Practice (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis

Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence: Early Findings and Implications for Research, Teaching, and Learning (March '24)

Beth LaPensee, ITHAKA
Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA

Navigating the New Era: The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Information Discovery and Literacy (March '24)

Emily Singley, Elsevier
Leo Lo, University of New Mexico
Elias Tzoc, Clemson University

A New Approach to Data-Intensive Research Support: Computational Methods and Data at Yale University Library (March '24)

Rebecca Dikow, Yale University

The T in GPT: Transformers for Cultural Heritage Work (March '24)

Peter Leonard, Stanford University

Transforming Libraries for the Future: Elevating Service Innovation with Generative Artificial Intelligence and Prompt Engineering (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Yinlin Chin, Virginia Tech University

Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A Panel and Community Conversation (February '24)

Speakers:
Heather Sardis
Rachael Samberg
Richard Sever
Moderator: Clifford Lynch

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From Exascale to AI: Developments & Implications for the Information Landscape (January '24)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Scalable Exchange of Sensitive and Proprietary Usage and Impact Metrics Across Public and Private Stakeholders (Lightning Round) (November '23)

Christina Drummond, University of North Texas

Ecosystem for Next Generation Infrastructure (ENGIN) (Lightning Round) (November '23)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research Integrity (November '23)

Chris Bourg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heather Sardis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erin Stalberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GPT Tools That Provide Source Information (November '23)

Gary Price, infoDOCKET & ARL Day in Review

To Increase or Decrease Capacity: The What, How, and Why of 21st Century Library Skill Development (November '23)

Tony Zanders, Skilltype
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Karim Boughida, Stony Brook University

Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”) (November '23)

Thomas Padilla, Internet Archive
Rachael Samberg, University of California, Berkeley

Navigating the Artificial Intelligence-Driven Academic Frontier: Tools and Initiatives (November '23)

Elias Tzoc, Clemson University
Joelen Pastva, Carnegie Mellon University
Benjamin Shaw, University of Maryland
Leo Lo, The University of New Mexico

Unexpected Opportunities Illuminated by Yale’s LUX Project (Lightning Round) (November '23)

Robert Sanderson, Yale University

Artificial Intelligence-Human Collaboration: How Advanced Technologies are Shaping the Future of Publishing (March '23)

Emily Singley, Elsevier
Corey Harper, Elsevier
Judson Dunham, Elsevier
Emily McElroy, University of Florida

ChatGPT: The Future of Higher Ed and Libraries, Brought to You by Artificial Intelligence (March '23)

Karim Boughida, Stony Brook University
Borui Zhang, University of Florida
Peter Organisciak, University of Denver
Susan D’Agostino, Inside Higher Ed

Developing a Data-Driven Approach to Organizational Development (March '23)

Christine Quirion, Skilltype
Jackie Lorrainne, Washington University in St. Louis

Directions in Digital Scholarship: Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, and Computational Research in Academic Libraries (March '23)

Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

Early Lessons Learned from University Open Source Programs Offices (March '23)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Lieggi, University of California Santa Cruz
Kendall Fortney, University of Vermont

Empowering 360° Theater Utilization with the Visualization Studio Development Kit for Unity (March '23)

Colin Patrick Keenan, North Carolina State University

Extended Reality(XR)’s Growing Use in Higher Education (March '23)

Sean Burns, EDUCAUSE
Daniel Fergus, University of Nevada, Reno
Emily Sherwood, University of Rochester

Leveraging the National Research Platform to Build a Scalable Research and Education Environment (March '23)

Mark Laufersweiler, University of Oklahoma
Tyler Pearson, University of Oklahoma

Making AI Generative for Higher Education (Lightning Round) (March '23)

Dylan Ruediger, Ithaka S+R

Palace Project for Academics Program Update: Partnerships Working to Demystify Complexity (March '23)

James English, LYRASIS
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis

Social Learning Across Content Case Study: Hypothesis & JSTOR (March '23)

Alex Humphreys, ITHAKA/JSTOR
Jeremy Dean, Hypothesis
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado Boulder

Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting (March '23)

Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Niels Stern, OAPEN & Directory of Open Access Books

Collaborative Software Archiving for Institutions (CoSAI) (November '22)

Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)

Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College

Cultural and Technical Transformations: Benefits from Yale’s Linked Data Cross-Collection Discovery Platform (November '22)

Susan Gibbons, Yale University
Robert Sanderson, Yale University

Designing Libraries for the 21st Century: Principles, Trends, and Innovations (November '22)

Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

Guide To Set Up University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) (November '22)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

How the Public Access Submission System is Ideally Suited to Address the New Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum (November '22)

Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
John Kellerman, Eclipse Foundation
Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

The LibNFT Project: Leveraging Blockchain-Based Digital Asset Technology to Sustainably Preserve Distinctive Collections and Archives (November '22)

K. Matthew Dames, University of Notre Dame & Association of Research Libraries
Meredith Evans, Society of American Archivists
Michael Meth, San Jose State University

A New Storage Paradigm for Sustainable Digital Stewardship (November '22)

Andrew Woods, Harvard University

Palace Project Update — Accelerating Adoption of the Open Ebook Ecosystem for Public and Academic Libraries (November '22)

James English, LYRASIS

POD: Building Library Data Lakes to Reduce Friction and Enable Innovation (November '22)

Tom Cramer, Stanford University
Nora Dimmock, Brown University
Elisabeth Long, University of Chicago
Joe Zucca, University of Pennsylvania

The Robotics Project: Insights on Collecting Complex Multimodal Materials in a Research Ecosystem (November '22)

Brian Mathews, Carnegie Mellon University
Katherine Barbera, Carnegie Mellon University
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University

Supporting Computational Research on Large Digital Collections (November '22)

Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Nick Ruest, York University
Abigail Potter, Library of Congress
Meghan Ferriter, Library of Congress

Towards an Artificial Intelligence-Aware Academic Library (November '22)

Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Salwa Ismail, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis

AMPlifying AV: Next Steps for the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (March '22)

Jon Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington
Shawn Averkamp, AVP

Cloud Labs: A Conversation about Implications for Libraries and Research Data Management (Invited Session) (March '22)

Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Clifford Lynch, CNI

Harnessing the Knowledge of the COVID-19 Literature: From Scientific Text to Answers (March '22)

Georgios Tsatsaronis, Elsevier
Zubair Afzal, Elsevier
Efthymios Tsakonas, Elsevier

Machine Learning, Text Summarization, and Optimizing Scholarship for Citizen Audiences and Discovery (March '22)

Jason A. Clark, Montana State University
Leila Sterman, Montana State University
Daniel Laden, Montana State University

Radical Partnerships: Expanding Academic Collaboration in Data and Computational Sciences (March '22)

Joel Herndon, Duke University
Stephanie Labou, University of California, San Diego
Tim Dennis, University of California, Los Angeles
Harrison Dekker, University of Rhode Island

Towards an Open Global Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Digital Research (Invited Session) (March '22)

Frank Wuerthwein, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Implementing Artificial Intelligence Technology at a Major Library (December '21)

Rizwan Ali, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Machine Learning for Geographic Information Systems: Striving for Scalable Processing of Scanned Map Images (December '21)

Michael Shensky, University of Texas at Austin
Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin
Danna Gurari, University of Colorado Boulder
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Towards Aiding Research by Improving Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations from Multiple Domains (December '21)

Jian Wu, Old Dominion University
Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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The University of California, San Francisco-John Hopkins University Opioid Industry Documents Archive (December '21)

Kate Tasker, University of California, San Franciscoi
Anne Seymour, Johns Hopkins University
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University of Miami’s Esploro Journey: Leveraging Human Eco-systems & Intelligence to Train AI Models (December '21)

Elizabeth Gushee, University of Miami
Kineret Ben-Knaan, University of Miami
Angela Clark-Hughes, University of Miami
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The Use of Machine Learning Techniques for Performing Topic Modeling and Topic Identification on Bibliographic Datasets (December '21)

William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Using Machine Learning to Extract WWII Japanese American Incarceree Data (December '21)

Marissa Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Elings, University of California, Berkeley
Vijay Singh, Doxie.AI
Tracey Tan, Doxie.AI
Cameron Ford, Doxie.AI
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Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections and the Sourcery Project (April '21)

Speakers: Dan Cohen, Greg Colati, Barbara Rockenbach, and Tom Scheinfeldt

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*Centering The Human Expert: Experiments in Computer Vision Infrastructure for Digital Collection Management (March '21)

Matthew Lincoln, Carnegie Mellon University
Julia Corrin, Carnegie Mellon University
Emily Davis, Carnegie Mellon University
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*Data Analytics and Visualization Services in Libraries (March '21)

Xuying Xin, Pennsylvania State University
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*Feeding Hungry Researchers: A Library Ecosystem for Social Media Data (March '21)

Laura Wrubel, George Washington University
Daniel Kerchner, George Washington University
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Project Komodo: Catalyzing Browser-Based Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning in the Library (March '21)

Elisandro Cabada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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*Shared Power and the Making of the Penn and Slavery Project Augmented Reality Tour (March '21)

Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania
Meaghan Moody, University of Rochester
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Cloud Lab Project (January '21)

Speakers: Rebecca Doerge, Brian Frezza and Keith Webster

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Opening Plenary Fall 2020: Clifford Lynch (December '20)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Compassionate Computing: Leveraging Socio-Technical Practices for Technical and Cultural Change (December '20)

Laurie Taylor, University of Florida
Todd Digby, University of Florida

Computer Lab Access Amid COVID-19 Restrictions: The Sprint to Maintain Support for Any Distance Users at UT Austin Libraries (December '20)

Fred Gilmore, University of Texas, Austin

Containerizing Digital Exhibits for Scalability and Sustainment (December '20)

Larry Yang, The University of Texas at Austin
Allyssa Guzman, The University of Texas at Austin

Demonstrating PresQT Services for FAIR Software and Data Preservation (December '20)

Natalie Meyers, University of Notre Dame
Rick Johnson, University of Notre Dame

Emulation In Action: Applying EaaSI for Research and Study (December '20)

Seth Anderson, Yale University
Ethan Gates, Yale University
Jessica Meyerson, Educopia Institute
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Enabling and Reusing Multilingual Citizen Contributions in the Archival Record (December '20)

Allyssa Guzman, University of Texas at Austin
Albert Palacios, University of Texas at Austin

Expanding the Experiential Library: Using Livestreaming to Adapt Hands-on Learning Spaces During a Global Pandemic (December '20)

Claire Cahoon, North Carolina State University
Colin Nickels, North Carolina State University

Geodisy: A New, Visual Way to Discover Canadian Research Data (December '20)

Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

A Library’s Role in Times of COVID: Lessons Learned from the JHU Global COVID-19 Map (December '20)

Reina Murray, Johns Hopkins University
Mara Blake, Johns Hopkins University
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Mining ETDs for Trends in Graduate Research (December '20)

William Ingram, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Next Generation Machine Learning: The Evolution of the Library as Research Partner, Project Catalyst and Digital Integrator (December '20)

James Lee, University of Cincinnati
Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati

Perspectives on Metadb: Analytics in the Library (December '20)

Nassib Nassar, Index Data

Reconstructing the Temple of Bel, New Roles and Functions for Digital Archives (December '20)

Roger Smith, University of California San Diego
Scott McAvoy, University of California San Diego

Summarizing Web Archives through Storytelling with the Dark and Stormy Archives Project (December '20)

Shawn Jones, Los Alamos National Research Library

A Tree’s Strength Is Its Trunk: IIIF as Central Operational Infrastructure (December '20)

Mark Matienzo, Stanford University
Esmé Cowles, Princeton University
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Using AWS Speech-to-text to Provide Better Access to Online Educational Materials (December '20)

Daniel Jacobs, University of Texas Austin

Using Newspapers as Data for Collaborative Pedagogy: A Multidisciplinary Interrogation of the Borderlands in University Classrooms (December '20)

Megan Senseney, University of Arizona
Mary Feeney, University of Arizona
Jeffrey Oliver, University of Arizona
Anita Huizar-Hernández, University of Arizona

Advancements in Digital Preservation: Spectral 3-D Reconstruction of Impressionist Oil Paintings (March '20)

Yi Yang, Pennsylvania State University

Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws (March '20)

Amanda Henley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lorin Bruckner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Building Data Science Support Capacity through Graduate Fellowship Programs (March '20)

Jeffrey C. Oliver, University of Arizona

Catalyzing Student Success: How to Center Digital Literacy, Access to Technology, and Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice in Innovative Library Spaces (March '20)

Jennifer Nichols, University of Arizona
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Immersive Scholar: Development, Documentation, Display, and Dissemination of Experiential Research and Scholarship (March '20)

Micah Vandegrift, North Carolina State University
Shelby Hallman, North Carolina State University

Infusing Data with Compute: Developing and Advancing an Institution-Wide Strategy Around Research Data Science (March '20)

Salwa Ismail, University of California, Berkeley
Shawna Dark, University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth Lutz, University of California, Berkeley
Anthony Suen, University of California, Berkeley

Review, Appraisal and Triage of Email (RATOM) (March '20)

Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina
Kam Woods, University of North Carolina

Virtual Reality in Libraries: Research Partnership Opportunities (March '20)

Doralyn Rossmann, Montana State University

Web-Based Digital Maps and the Challenge of Sustainability (March '20)

Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen, Columbia University
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint, LLC

Artificial Intelligence: Impacts and Roles for Libraries (January '20)

Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Griffey, National Information Standards Organization

Bringing Computational Access to Book-length Documents Via an ETD Pilot (January '20)

William Ingram, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Can We Talk? Adding a Smart Assistant Interface to Library Services (January '20)

Greg Davis, Iowa State University
Lisa Smith, Iowa State University

Encouraging the Ecosystem: Growing Unique Partnerships Through Data Science (January '20)

Karim Boughida, University of Rhode Island
Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island

Experimenting on a Digital Strategy (January '20)

Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
Jaime Mears, Library of Congress
Meghan Ferriter, Library of Congress
Abigail Potter, Library of Congress

Experimenting with a Machine Generated Annotations Pipeline (January '20)

Joshua Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: The Landscape of Autonomy (January '20)

Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

Machine Learning in Research Libraries: A Snapshot of Projects, Opportunities and Challenges (January '20)

Harish Maringanti, University of Utah
Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Zheng (John) Wang, University of Notre Dame

The New Normal: Why Libraries are Teaching AI, ML, DH, NLP, VR… (January '20)

Tim Dennis, University of California, Los Angeles
Indrani Mandal, University of Rhode Island
Vicky Steeves, New York University
Matthew Burton, University of Pittsburgh
Harrison Dekker, University of Rhode Island

Ready or Not: Here Comes Voice Search (January '20)

Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma

Responsible Operations: Shaping a Community Research Agenda (January '20)

Thomas Padilla, OCLC Research
Sarah Shreeves, University of Arizona

Sprinting Toward a Lab: Network Building, Knowledge Sharing and Transforming Communities in Galleries, Archives, Libraries and Museums Through a Book Sprint (January '20)

Caleb Derven, University of Limerick

Webrecorder, Web Archiving for All: Past, Present and Future (January '20)

Ilya Kreymer, Rhizome/Webrecorder

A Farewell to Joan Lippincott, and “A Fragmented Landscape, Collaborations Refreshed, and CNI’s 2019-20 Program” (December '19)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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3D Scanning and Augmented Reality as a Method to Deliver and Promote Digital Collections in Libraries & Museums (April '19)

Chad Hutchens, University of Wyoming
Tyler Kerr, University of Wyoming

Developing 3D Scanning as a Library Service: Experiences from a Pilot Program at OU Libraries (April '19)

Kristi Wyatt, University of Oklahoma
Zenobie S. Garrett, University of Oklahoma

The DiSH (Digital Skills Hub): A Place to Learn What You Need to Know Before Using the Latest Technologies (April '19)

Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Tara Carlisle, University of Oklahoma

Libraries and VR: Ongoing Initiatives at University of New Mexico (April '19)

Kevin Comerford, University of New Mexico

A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual OCR (April '19)

Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University

Services & Resources to Support Students (April '19)

J. K. Vijayakumar, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia
Garry Hall, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia
Todd Ogle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Web Archives Analysis at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Cloud (April '19)

Nick Ruest, York University
Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo

Responsible Stewardship, Technology Realities, and Renewing Collaborations: CNI’s Agenda for the Coming Year (December '18)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Blockchain Can Not Be Used To Verify Replayed Archived Web Pages (December '18)

Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University

Blockchain: What’s Not To Like? (December '18)

David S. H. Rosenthal, Stanford University (retired)

Building Infrastructure and Services for Open Access to Research (December '18)

Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Jason Priem, Impactstory
Joseph McArthur, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

Developing Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality Collection Development and Reuse (December '18)

Nathan Hall, Virginia Tech
Jamie Wittenberg, Indiana University – Bloomington

From Bibliography to Data Analytics and Image Recognition: The Journey of the Iberian Books Project (December '18)

John B. Howard, University College Dublin
Alexander (Sandy) Wilkinson, University College Dublin

Hiding In Plain Sight: The Value of Machine-Processable Copyright Data (December '18)

John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania
Greg Cram, New York Public Library
Melissa Levine, University of Michigan

Towards a High-Performance National Research Platform Enabling Digital Research (April '18)

Speaker: Larry Smarr

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Makerspaces in the Academic Library (March '18)

Jenny Wong-Welch, San Diego State University
Keven Jeffery, San Diego State University
Jean Ferguson, University of California, Berkeley
Owen McGrath, University of California, Berkeley

NCSU Libraries Digital and Data Science Skills Workshops: Building Capacity and Meeting Campus Needs (March '18)

Jennifer Garrett, North Carolina State University

A Practical, Incremental Approach to a Decentralized Future (March '18)

Jeffrey Spies, University of Virginia

Supporting 3D/VR Technologies in Academic Libraries: Curation and Preservation Challenges (March '18)

Zack Lischer-Katz, University of Oklahoma

Scholarly Communication: Deconstruct & Decentralize? (December '17)

Speaker: Herbert Van De Sompel

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Resilience and Engagement in an Era of Uncertainty (December '17)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Collaboration between Libraries and Academic Units in Advancing Multidisciplinary Scholarship by Enhancing Library Knowledge Systems (December '17)

Christina Leblang, University of Notre Dame
Zheng (John) Wang, University of Notre Dame

Leveraging Data to Monitor Makerspace Demographics: Addressing the Complexity of System Interoperability (December '17)

Amber N. Welch, University of Texas

Data Integrity for Librarians, Archivists, and Criminals: What We Can Steal from Bitcoin, BitTorrent, and Usenet (March '17)

Jeffrey Spies, Center for Open Science

Is the Researcher Human? Is the Librarian? Bots, Conversational User Interfaces, and Virtual Research Assistants (March '17)

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Griffey, Harvard University
Emily King, College of Southern Nevada
Michael Schofield, LibUX

Semantic Web Identity: A New Opportunity for Libraries to Improve Machine Comprehension of Academic Organizations and Concepts (March '17)

Kenning Arlitsch, Montana State University
Justin Shanks, Montana State University

Virtual Reality in the Trenches: Addressing the Preservation Challenges of Virtual Reality for Scholarship (March '17)

Zack Lischer-Katz, University of Oklahoma
Matt Cook, University of Oklahoma

Makerspaces, Virtual Reality, The Internet of Things et alia Stories (November '16)

Karim Boughida, University of Rhode Island
Brian Jepson, O’Reilly Media
Brian Mathews, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Angelica Ferria, University of Rhode Island
Deborah Mongeau, University of Rhode Island

What’s the Reality of Virtual Reality in a Modern Research University Library? (November '16)

Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Matt Cook, University of Oklahoma

A Conversation About the Present and the Future of Technology, Knowledge and Culture (December '14)

Speakers: Bryan Alexander and Clifford Lynch

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A Conversation on the Changing Landscape of Information Systems in Higher Education: Community Source, Community Platforms and Systems as Services (December '14)

Speakers: Tom Cramer, James Hilton, Michele Kimpton, and Clifford Lynch

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MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI’s Perspective on 2012 and 2013 (December '12)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

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Key Trends in Teaching & Learning: Aligning What We Know About Learning to Today’s Learners (April '12)