An alternative access method for the same information that is available from the CNI-ANNOUNCE listserv.
Proposal Deadline Reminder: Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
This is the final reminder that proposals for the second edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series will be accepted until Wednesday, May 25. More information about this year-round program is available on the CNI website and the first edition (April 2022) is now available.
- Pre-recorded project briefing videos should focus on a timely topic or on a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported at CNI in the past.
- Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.
- Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a guide for contextualization. Their availability will be announced on CNI’s listserv, website, and social media outlets.
- No more than 12 pre-recorded project briefings will be accepted for each edition; we expect to issue calls for proposals approximately every two to three months.
Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/resources/pbvs/submit-a-proposal
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!
-Paige Pope, CNI Communications Coordinator
International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation, June 7-9, 2022
The National Academies, in partnership with the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, is hosting the first International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation. This is being held in-person only, as I understand it. They have a great speaker line up. For details, see
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
National Academies Report: Fostering Responsible Computing Research
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the US National Academies has recently issued a report titled “Fostering Responsible Computing Research” which stresses the ethical and societal implications of computer science research. See
There’s a video available from the May 2 report release webinar at
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Developments in Quantum Resistant Cryptographic Systems
In the past week or so there have been several interesting developments in quantum science and quantum resistant cryptography. The Biden administration has issued this fact sheet summarizing its activities
and more specifically, National Security Memorandum 10 on implementation of quantum resistant cryptographic systems. It is expected that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be making some additional announcements in the near future as it continues its work in selecting quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. See
Also of interest is a very recent Nature paper dealing with closely related topics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04623-2
Finally, while on this topic, I want to share a pointer to the really excellent book by Chris Hoofnagle and Simpson Garfinkel, “Law and Policy for the Quantum Age” from Cambridge University Press. This is also (courtesy of the UC Berkeley Library open access funding) available as a free download. (Full disclosure: I’m an Adjunct Professor at the Berkeley School of Information, and Chris is a valued colleague). See
Interestingly, I’d say that this book is considerably more skeptical about the near-term threat that quantum computing offers for existing cryptographic systems that some other sources.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
REMINDER Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Call for Proposals
This is a reminder that proposals will be accepted until May 25 for the second edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. More information about this year-round program is available on the CNI website and the first edition (April 2022) is now available.
Pre-recorded project briefing videos should focus on a timely topic or on a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported at CNI in the past. In general, we recommend that these videos run no more than 15-20 minutes in length, though longer presentations may occasionally make sense; we leave this decision to the discretion of presenters.
Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.
Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a guide for contextualization. Their availability will be announced on CNI’s listserv, website, and social media outlets.
No more than 12 pre-recorded project briefings will be accepted for each edition; we expect to issue calls for proposals approximately every two to three months.
Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/resources/pbvs/submit-a-proposal
Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2022
Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2022
Video submission deadline for accepted proposals: June 22, 2022
Video collection release: July 2022
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Paige Pope, CNI Communications Coordinator
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Sept 16-18, 2022
The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium will be holding their 2022 meeting in Tucson, Arizona September 16-18, 2022; they plan this as a primarily in-person meeting. The theme is The Digital World in an Age of Uncertainty: Humanizing Technology for Wellness, Resilience, and Creativity. For more information (and note the call for contributions is still open) see
https://sites.google.com/view/pnc-2022/conference-info
I’ve had the opportunity to attend (and speak at) a number of the PNC conferences over the years. They are consistently interesting and cover a unique range of digital humanities topics.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
National Academies Report on Automated Research Workflows
The US National Academies has just released an important report on the implications and promises of automated research workflows on scientific discovery. These workflows combine computation, lab automation, and machine learning/AI in various ways that are having transformational impact on research in various disciplines. The committee that authored the report was chaired by University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Dan Atkins, who is well known to the CNI community for the “Atkins report” on Cyberinfrastructure, his work as the first director of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure, and as a recipient of the Paul Evan Peters award in 2008. For the report, see
for a summary press release, see
CNI continues to track developments in this area closely; I invite you to to consider this report in context of the Carnegie Mellon Cloud Lab work that we highlighted in our December 2021 Member meeting (video is available via the CNI web site) for example. Often, the National Academies does a webinar in conjunction with the release of a report like this, but thus far, I am not aware of one having been scheduled; if I get information on such a presentation, I’ll post it here.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Paul Evan Peters Fellowship Reminder 2022
Applications for the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in information studies and closely related fields will be accepted through May 20, 2022.
Two fellowships will be awarded in 2022:
- One to a doctoral student in the amount of $5,000 per year, to be awarded two consecutive years.
- One to a master’s student in the amount of $2,500 per year, to be awarded two consecutive years.
Visit the website (https://www.cni.org/go/pep-fellowship) for more details about eligibility requirements, application procedures and past recipients. Applicants should submit an online application no later than May 20, 2022.
Please help us spread the word!
Questions? Contact Paige Pope, paige@cni.org.
Call for Proposals: CNI Project Briefing Video Series
Proposals are now being accepted for the second edition of CNI’s new asynchronous, pre-recorded project briefing series. More information about this year-round program is available on the CNI website and the first edition (April 2022) is now available.
Pre-recorded project briefing videos should focus on a timely topic or on a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported at CNI in the past. In general, we recommend that these videos run no more than 15-20 minutes in length, though longer presentations may occasionally make sense; we leave this decision to the discretion of presenters.
Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.
Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a guide for contextualization. Their availability will be announced on CNI’s listserv, website, and social media outlets.
No more than 12 pre-recorded project briefings will be accepted for each edition; we expect to issue calls for proposals approximately every two to three months.
Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/resources/pbvs/submit-a-proposal
Important Dates
- Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2022
- Video submission deadline for accepted proposals: June 22, 2022
- Video collection release: July 2022
Please contact me with any questions.
-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI
CNI Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Live: April 2022
Edition Guide
Coalition for Networked Information
Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
April 2022
Welcome to the inaugural edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. Approximately every three or four months, CNI will release a new collection of videos aimed at providing timely reports on projects, events, and other initiatives or issues of interest to the community. We are pleased to introduce the first edition, which includes 10 pre-recorded videos on a wide array of topics.
This document contextualizes the briefings and serves as a guide to the collection. The videos highlight current issues in digital information and reflect CNI’s ongoing programmatic interests. They showcase projects and initiatives across the community and spotlight important developments around scholarly communication, teaching and learning, digital collections, and more. The value of collaboration is a theme that particularly stands out in this first collection.
It is in that spirit that Gardner Campbell, associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, welcomes viewers in “The Public Debut of a Dream”: Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” 60 Years On. In this fascinating briefing, Campbell surveys the landscape of Engelbart’s imaginative, audacious 1962 framework for how networked computers could help advance human creativity and productivity. The Doug Engelbart Institute is honoring the 60th anniversary of the framework this year with new opportunities to explore Engelbart’s vision of human-computer co-evolution. Campbell reflects on the framework’s importance alongside Engelbart’s contemporaries and enthusiasts, and I think CNI members will find this briefing’s connection to CNI and opportunities for engagement particularly intriguing.
Two briefings provide updates on projects previously introduced at CNI membership meetings. They each explore facets of scholarly communication, which has been of continual interest to the CNI community.
University of Kentucky Digital Humanities Librarian Jennifer Hootman shares an update on the library’s efforts to address a significant gap in equitable campus access to web-hosting options. CreateUK: A Review and Recommendations for Growing and Enhancing Campus Collaborations is a follow-up to the CNI Fall 2020 Membership Meeting briefing, CreateUK: Opportunities for Digital Pedagogy, Projects, and Collaborative Infrastructure. The briefing provides an overview of the pilot (ending in June 2022) and explains how CreateUK became more than a web-hosting service, functioning as a catalyst to build cross-campus relationships. Hootman outlines how the library supported the new connections and how CreateUK’s built-in open-source applications positioned the library as a collaborator in pedagogy and university projects.
A team from The Ohio State University Libraries provides an update to their CNI Fall 2020 Membership Meeting briefing, Transforming Scholarly Publishing at The Ohio State University. In Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy: Reflections on the First Three Years, the team takes stock of the initiative, reviewing the portfolio of transformational and transitional agreements, support for open scholarly infrastructure and publishing, and consortia partnerships. The team shares thinking on future initiatives, including deeper exploration of open access publishing models and collective action. An apt companion piece to this session is the “Fund to Mission” Open Access Monograph Model at the University of Michigan: Progress Report briefing from CNI’s Fall 2021 Membership Meeting, which The Ohio State University Libraries supports and references.
There has been renewed attention on the role of research information management systems (RIMS) and how they figure into the broader scholarly communication ecosphere, which was a focus at the Spring 2022 Membership Meeting. In The Library-Led Research Information Management System at Oklahoma State University: Collaborations, Successes, and Challenges, Megan Macken, assistant department head of digital resources and discovery services and Clarke Iakovakis, director of scholarly services and research engagement, explain how they led the university-wide implementation of a RIM system. This briefing explains the collaboration between the library, campus IT, and data owners in configuring the data feeds, and the associated challenges in migrating data from local databases to a new system.
Issues and innovations related to digital collections and curation, another area of CNI focus, are featured here. Danielle Emerling, West Virginia University, introduces an ambitious project in The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project, which will provide access to congressional archives dispersed across multiple institutions via a single online portal. The pilot, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021-2022), was recently completed, and the briefing examines the results and next steps to scale the project.
Kathryn Ruddock provides a summary of the University of Calgary’s implementation of the Cortex digital asset management system in Leveraging a Digital Asset Management System for the Full Data Lifecycle for Digital Collections. Ruddock outlines the advantages of using a single platform for managing digital collections throughout the data lifecycle.
Fedora is a heavily used open-source repository system within the CNI community; in Fedora 6: Migration & Integration Tooling for Community Use Cases, a LYRASIS team explains the latest, long-awaited update. The update strengthens Fedora’s digital preservation sensibilities, data transparency, and commitment to community standards by incorporating the Oxford Common File Layout. This briefing highlights the new features and overviews the Camel Toolbox, which is a new, community-driven suite of microservices that integrate with Fedora. Lastly, the briefing provides an update on an IMLS grant focused on developing a migration toolkit for community-wide use.
From Pennsylvania State University, Ruth Tillman shares her work around the emerging field of maintenance studies in Beyond Implementation: Positioning Maintenance as a Core Commitment in Libraries. The briefing explores an under-studied and poorly understood aspect of the academic library’s systems infrastructure, and it highlights the potential consequences of underestimating and inadequately planning for proper systems maintenance. This session proposes steps for establishing a process where core maintenance tasks are not only recognized but also supported.
Ashley Champagne of Brown University provides a first-hand look at digital scholarship center management in Flexible Project Planning for Digital Scholarship Centers: A Framework for Managing Multiple Projects of Varying Technical Complexity. The briefing explores the challenges of digital scholarship centers with an emphasis on variability, flexibility, and preservation. Champagne outlines how to adapt project planning documents and shares frameworks and closeout document templates from Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
Building Resilience to Health Misinformation in Local Communities: A Public and Academic Libraries Partnership in San Diego County recounts the efforts of a public and academic libraries consortium to support San Diego County’s campaign to counteract health misinformation. In addition to reporting on the project’s outcomes, the briefing reflects on the partnership’s alignment with the collective impact model – a social innovation concept whereby a network of community members, organizations, and institutions coordinate to advance equity and facilitate social change.
A warm thank you to our first cohort of speakers for participating in the inaugural edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. I hope you will share these videos widely, and I welcome your comments and suggestions about this project or about any other aspect of CNI’s work. We will be announcing the call for proposals for the next edition in the coming weeks.
Clifford Lynch
CNI Executive Director
Diane Goldenberg-Hart
CNI Assistant Executive Director
Paige Pope
CNI Communications Coordinator
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