CNI News

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting are available. To see all videos produced by CNI, including all that have been released so far from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020), visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).
* indicates COVID-19 Related

Gateway Focus Week: Kickstarting Digital Projects with an Intensive Sustainability Workshop (Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint LLC)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/420572511
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wrT9rrThJQo

Beyond the Repository: Integrations to Support OA Policies (Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Daniel Coughlin, Brandy Karl and Ana Enriquez, Pennsylvania State University)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/420571552
YouTube: https://youtu.be/r0At_65KVr8

*Rapidly Expanding Access: HathiTrust’s COVID-19 Response (Mike Furlough and Sandra McIntyre, HathiTrust) COVID-19 Related
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/420202384
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0RO5D6y568c

*Emergency Planning in a Time of Crisis (Christopher Vinson and Chris Cox, Clemson University) COVID-19 Related
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/420191512
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wsx0RwLlB3k

Research Organization Registry Update: Sustainability, Adoption, and Curation Planning (Short Update) (Maria Gould, University of California)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/419761244
YouTube: https://youtu.be/eQlG7BQfAGs

Project Surfliner: Building the Tracks before the Train (Tim Marconi, University of California, San Diego; Chrissy Rissmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/419792369
YouTube: https://youtu.be/fT-5d72F0kE

Infusing Data with Compute: Developing and Advancing an Institution-Wide Strategy Around Research Data Science (Salwa Ismail, Shawna Dark, Kenneth Lutz & Anthony Suen, University of California, Berkeley)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418773163
YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1NdWRK1014

Virtual Reality in Libraries: Research Partnership Opportunities (Doralyn Rossmann, Montana State University)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418772660
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_TP-PE0Tzac

AMP Project Update: Leveraging Machine Learning and Human Expertise for AV Collections Access (Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University and Shawn Averkamp, AVP)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418335833
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FFGgWnsmjCY

Sizing Up Archives and Special Collections: Evaluating and Sustaining Our Operations at Scale (Chela Scott Weber, OCLC; Gordon Daines, Brigham Young University; Adrian Turner, University of California)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418334729
YouTube: https://youtu.be/YlM15VnDcNk

A Unified, Intentional, and Evolving Approach to Research Support (M.J. Tooey, University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418258726
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1PrX1DqFNOY

*Open Infrastructure and the COVID-19 Crisis: Principles and Evaluation Criteria (Rosalyn Metz and Lisa Macklin, Emory University) COVID-19 Related
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/418257979
YouTube: https://youtu.be/pfL3Mv5lJlc

*Starting (Almost) from Scratch: Supporting the “Pivot to Online” in a Small Liberal Arts College Environment (Scott Walter, Illinois Wesleyan University) COVID-19 Related
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/417938333
YouTube: https://youtu.be/hq9cmbr-iMI

Packaging Specification for Simultaneous Deposit of Articles and Data into Multiple Repositories (Sayeed Choudhry & Hanh Vu, Johns Hopkins University)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/417845449
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cXXp403WpuA

Beth Secrist
Communications Consultant, CNI
beth@cni.org

When we made the decision to move the CNI Spring 2020 Member Meeting virtual, we were able to incorporate an additional Executive Roundtable on research continuity and COVID-19 (in addition to retaining the originally scheduled Roundtable, “New Strategies for Acquiring Learning Materials” – we are working on the report from that Roundtable now).

Research continuity is a critical and poorly explored issue that was somewhat overshadowed by the demands of the sudden pivot to remote instruction at many institutions. The demand to participate was unprecedented: we repeated the Roundtable four times between April 15 and April 24, with a wide range of institutional teams participating in the events.

The report summarizing what we heard at the Roundtable “What Happens to the Continuity and Future of the Research Enterprise?” and some of our analysis is now available online:

https://www.cni.org/go/what-happens-to-continuity-and-future-of-research

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting are available. To see all videos produced by CNI, including all that have been released so far from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020), visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

Crowd-Sourced Unlatching of Curricular Books (Mark G. Bilby, University of California, Fullerton)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/417526105
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ju0cEZVauQQ

Print to Petabyte: Creating Knowledge from Collection Information (Fenella G. France, Library of Congress)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416514570
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gU1yR3mLR2A

Statistical Consulting in the Library (Jonathan Cain, University of Oregon)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/415795635
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EtDgNaTtvck

Implementing Effective Data Practices (Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries; Maria Gould, University of California; Maria Praetzellis, University of California; Natalie Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Jennifer Muilenburg, University of Washington)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/415794184
YouTube: https://youtu.be/P71976t3eC0

Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works (Mike Furlough, HathiTrust; Stuart Lewis, National Library of Scotland)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/415709384
YouTube: https://youtu.be/uT-1qWFbQKg

Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws (Amanda Henley, Lorin Bruckner & Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/414966638
YouTube: https://youtu.be/M1Md2Cz9fY0

Connecting the Dots: Using ORCID to Consolidate Research Information for Reporting and Assessment (Jan Fransen, University of Minnesota; Jane Scott, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Hilary Davis & Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University; Sheila Rabun, LYRASIS)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/415331819
YouTube: https://youtu.be/8LOsEdeBizM

Advancements in Digital Preservation: Spectral 3-D Reconstruction of Impressionist Oil Paintings (Yi Yang, Pennsylvania State University)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/415330612
YouTube: https://youtu.be/NQw4Jy8RtDA

CNI is pleased to be a cooperating organization for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) again this year. 

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the JCDL 2020 Organizing Committee has decided to bring together members of diverse digital library communities in an all-virtual conference with online sessions and discussions: JCDL 2020 will be held virtually, August 1-5, 2020. 

Registration is now open: http://2020.jcdl.org/Registration.html

Early Bird registration ends July 1st.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CN

Many new videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting are now available:

COVID-19 Related: Technology Planning for Operational Continuity (Dhanushka Samarakoon, University of Miami)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/H2B7pKoHcTE
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412611311

Fostering a UX Culture across Campus (Rebecca Blakiston, University of Arizona)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zxzwJQHuewk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/413469369

Empowering Data-Driven Research through an Open, Accessible Data Infrastructure (Jamie V. Wittenberg, Indiana University)
YouTube:  https://youtu.be/svf0zD438n0
Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/412231983

Immersive Scholar: Development, Documentation, Display, and Dissemination of Experiential Research and Scholarship (Micah Vandegrift & Shelby Hallman, North Carolina State University)
YouTube; https://youtu.be/uEY3scL0Utg
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412227378

DevOps is Bigger than IT: Driving Digital Transformation in Libraries (Jennifer Vinopal & Mary Beth Snapp, University of Ohio)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/C8M6jy_ut_c
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/411241025

It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve (Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati; Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QPgCdMeupDw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/411081071

Reflections on a Merger: Assessing the Program-Level Impact of LYRASIS + DuraSpace (David Wilcox, LYRASIS; Rosalyn Metz, Emory University; Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia; Tim Shearer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Julia Trimmer, Duke University; Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UmRD5k-N4bw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/413469369

IIIF at the Getty: Vision & Tactics (Stefano Cossu, J.P. Getty Trust)
YouTube:  https://youtu.be/KPaOJkScCr8
Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/412232447

Arks in the Open: 3.2 billion Persisten Identifiers (John Kunze, University of California; Bess Missell, Smithsonian Institution; Karen Hanson, Ithaka; Tom Creighton, FamilySearch International)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/DA9F2e5ZRYw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412227303

To see all videos produced by CNI, including all that have been released so far from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020), visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

-Diane

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart

There will be a three-day free Youtube based conference starting 1pm EST  May 1 (Friday), with additional  sessions at 1pm EST on May 2 and May 3. Apologies for the late notice but I just found out about it myself. For details see

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/live-conference-digital-technologies-and-cultural-heritage

The speaker lineup is extremely impressive. It’s not clear if the session will be recorded for subsequent asynchronous viewing based on the announcement. I’ve pasted the program below..

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Programme
Discussion 1: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects they Display
Rethinking the role and value of culture in the shadow of an uncertain future
Friday 1 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, CBE, former Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts
Participants
Sir Mark Jones, Chairman of the National Museum Directors’ Conference, former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
András Szántó, Author and Cultural Strategy Advisor, Founder of Andras Szanto LLC
Mari Lending, Professor in Architectural Theory and History and founding member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies
Marina Warner, Writer of fiction, criticism, and history and President of the Royal Society of Literature
Neil MacGregor, Founding Director of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin and former Director of the British Museum

Discussion 2: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing
Creating a cultural economy based on sharing skills, technologies and knowledge
Saturday 2 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science, Cambridge University
Participants
Anaïs Aguerre, Founder and Managing Director of Culture Connect Ltd, ReACH Project Director
Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London
Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum
Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large
Bonnie Greer, Playwright, author and critic

Discussion 3: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge
Compiling, analysing, presenting information in an age of machine learning
Sunday 3 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Sir Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group
Participants
Brian Cantwell Smith, Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto
Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Museology, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Frédéric Kaplan, Professor and Digital Humanities Chair, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Carol Mandel, Dean Emerita of New York University (NYU) Libraries
William Owen, Founder of Made by Many

The Designing Libraries for the Twenty-First Century IX Conference, which was to have been held at Temple University in Philadelphia on October 18-20, 2020, is postponed out of concern for participants’ and presenters’ health and safety. A new date has not yet been set.

A major aspect of the Designing Libraries conferences is the experience of visiting new and/or renovated libraries, and the planning group is delighted that the next conference will be held at the stunning and state-of-the-art Charles Library at Temple University https://www.temple.edu/about/libraries/charles . In addition to experiencing library spaces, the participants at the conference, which include architects, designers, planners, academic administrators, faculty, librarians, and information technologists, find the informal interactions at the conference venue very valuable. For those reasons, we will not be offering a virtual conference as a substitute but will defer the conference to a later date when everyone can feel secure in making travel plans and attending conferences.

We will announce the new date when available via listservs.

Thank you.

Tom Hickerson, Founder, Designing Libraries Conference

Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

Joe Lucia, Temple University

Greg Raschke, North Carolina State University

In the chaos of the past two months, I’ve mostly refrained from sharing published materials with the cni-announce list, partially because I’ve been swamped, and partially because I think many readers of this list have been swamped. Here are a few that I’ve accumulated which I think are particularly important or timely:

Congressional Research Service, Report on the Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal Research and Development Enterprise, April 10, 2020

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46309

This is a very valuable synthesis addressing a critically important topic; note that it’s focused on science agencies like NSF, NIH, NASA. The higher education research enterprise is much broader and also encompasses, for example, the humanities, and the federal government does fund work in this area through organizations like NEH, NARA, and IMLS. Note that CNI has been convening a series of extraordinary Executive Roundtables over the past two weeks looking at the continuity of the research enterprise; we hope to have a report of these conversations out in early to mid-May and will announce it here.

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Danielle Cooper, Technologies at Hand: On Researcher Practices During a Pandemic, April 14, 2020

https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/technologies-at-hand/

A fascinating and relatively brief report from Ithaka S+R, very much worth reading.

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Results of an EDUCAUSE quick poll on the help that institutions are providing students in the transition to fully remote access.

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/4/educause-covid-19-quickpoll-results-help-for-students

A quick and very interesting read.

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Public Workshop on Opportunities for Accelerating Scientific Discovery: Realizing the Potential of Advanced and Automated Workflows \

This was a hugely important public symposium that was hosted by the National Academies on March 16-17, 2020. It was moved from an in-person to a virtual event at the last minute; I was fortunate to be able to attend. It was convened to support the work of a National Academies committee exploring the same topic which is being chaired by Dan Atkins of the University of Michigan (and Paul Evans Peters Award winner, among many many other honors). More information and all of the presentations are available at:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/03-16-2020/realizing-opportunities-for-advanced-and-automated-workflows-in-scientific-research-second-meeting

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Matthew Kirschenbaum, BOOKS.FILES: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry, March 26, 2020

Here’s Matt’s announcement:

I am happy to announce BOOKS.FILES: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry, a 25k-word report written with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and in collaboration with the Book Industry Study Group.

Download the PDF here:

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/25605

This open access research report builds on a Convening held two years ago at the Pierpont Morgan Library that brought together representatives from book history and bibliography (among other fields) and the publishing industry. It addresses the global transition of contemporary publishing and bookmaking to digital workflows, and the implications for publishers’ archives and other forms of primary source evidence for future book history, bibliography, and literary and cultural history more generally. It seeks to explain how books are actually made nowadays and at what points in the production process digital assets might be earmarked for future archiving.

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AI for Science, Department of Energy Report, March 11, 2020

This is a massive report from the DOE National Labs looking at applications of AI in scientific research. It has interesting connections to other work going on internationally, such as the Jisc Research 4.0 study which I’ve discussed here before, and also to thinking such as Tony Hey from Rutherford Labs in the UK described in his talk at the AAAS meeting in February 2020 (see more on Tony’s work at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2019.0054 ). The announcement and a link to the report is at

https://www.anl.gov/ai-for-science-report

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I hope these links are helpful.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI