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Richard Poynder has just published an interview with Clifford Lynch in which they discuss the current state of the institutional repository, particularly in light of public access mandates by funders and the growth of the open access movement in general:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/q-with-cnis-clifford-lynch-time-to-re_22.html

I’m pleased to bring to your attention the next Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinar, which features two presenters from Georgia Tech, including one presenter from the library. Registration information is below.

–Joan Lippincott
CNI

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Greetings: 

Join us for a continuing conversation about how attention to spaces for learning becomes an integral part of institutional planning for the future: A Campus-wide “Space Matters” Culture. http://pkallsc.org/events/lsc-webinar-campus-wide-“space-matters”-culture

The spotlight in this webinar is on the Georgia Institute of Technology, which has a long and treasured history of exploring and realizing learning environments—pedagogical, social, and physical—that nurture the creativity of the entire campus community.

This story is told from the perspective of two senior administrators at Georgia Tech: Howard S. Wertheimer—Director Capital Planning and Space Management & Ameet D. Doshi— Director, Service Experience and Program Design, Subject Librarian for Public Policy. They are joined by an architect for a recent STEM building on campus: Ryan Jones—Lake Flato Architects. Their perspective on what works and lessons learned should be of interest to all stakeholders who are convinced that space matters and are committed to make that happen on their campus. 

Join us to explore:

•               How Georgia Tech has established a philosophy of learning as doing, a culture in which space matters. How it sees learning as a place, understands how every project is influenced by and influences the 400 acre campus, how the campus is understood as an ecosystem for learning.

•               The current environment for learning and planning for learning at GT—Perspectives of: the chief facilities officer who is teaching a freshman seminar in the new Clough Center; a librarian on the evolution over the years of sandboxing experiments that were the foundation for future planning at GT; an architect involved with a recent STEM project.

•               A snapshot into their planning process—about pilot projects, student involvement and input, lessons learned.

•               What next steps are being explored to deepen a “space matters” culture at Georgia Tech: how to identify new partnerships, identify and overcome barriers to change; auditing all spaces to determine if and how they make a difference to the experience of learning at Georgia Tech.

Logistics:

•               Schedule: Webinars are scheduled from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. EDT.

•               Registration fee: Registration is $200 for a single webinar; fee for all four webinars is $700. If you wish to register for all 4, you will receive a copy of the September webinar recording.

•               Post-webinar resource: All registrants have access to a webinar recording.

Be in touch with any questions.

Jeanne

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Jeanne L. Narum
The Independent Colleges Office, Director
Learning Spaces Collaboratory, Principal
D: (202) 256-8872
C: (202) 528-0305
jlnarum.lsc.ico@gmail.com
http://www.pkallsc.org/

At the December 2015 Member Meeting in Washington DC, we held two sessions of an Executive Roundtable looking at institutional strategies for compliance with new mandates dealing with research results (journal articles and datasets) supported by government funding. While the main focus was on developments in the United States, the roundtable included several perspectives from international participants. I’m happy to announce that the report of this roundtable is now available:

https://www.cni.org/go/funders-compliance-research-results-2016report

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2016 CNI Membership Meeting on December 12-13 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton.

Project briefings are 30-minute, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information; the submission process is open to all. A limited number of project briefings are accepted.

A link to the online submission form is available here:
https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/project-briefing-proposals-f16

Submissions are due no later than Monday, October 10.

Follow this meeting: #cni16f

We look forward to seeing you in DC!

Privacy and appropriate use of student data has been a long standing concern at CNI. Over the summer, we issued the report of our 2015 Executive Roundtable addressing this topic (see https://www.cni.org/go/privacy-analytics-2016-cni-report).

Relative to this, I wanted to make sure that readers of this list were aware of two important documents that came out today and were covered by the Chronicle for Higher Education (see “Group Unveils a ‘Model Policy’ for Handling Study Data,” Goldie Blumenstyk, September 6, 2016, at http://www.chronicle.com/article/Group-Unveils-a-Model-Policy/237690). These are a report on a conference convened by Ithaca S+R and Stanford University in June 2016 and a series of related background documents.

The report is at:
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/student-data-in-the-digital-era/

And the background documents are at:
http://ru.stanford.edu

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

We are pleased to share this CfP for the annual meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium with the CNI community; closing date for submissions is October 20, 2016.

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CURATION AND RESEARCH USE OF THE PAST WEB

Lisbon 29-30 March 2017

Web archiving efforts have now been underway for over twenty years, generating an expanding core of data crucial for present and future explorations of human political, cultural, economic and social activity since the mid 1990s. Practices around both the creation and use of web archives are rapidly evolving. What technical, ethical, and institutional approaches are necessary to advance use of web archives for scholarship and other use cases? How are researchers using the archived web right now, and in which new directions is that research heading? What innovations, collaborations, and adaptations are necessary to sustain the efficacy of web archiving? 

The 2017 Web Archiving Conference (WAC), held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), aims to bring together practitioners, librarians, archivists, historians, humanists, computer scientists, and other parties interested in expanding and harnessing the potential of preserved web heritage.

We welcome proposals on a broad range of topics, including from the following examples:

USING WEB ARCHIVES

§  Research using web archives

§  Tools and approaches

§  Initiatives, platforms, and collaborations

§  User-driven curation

§  Ethical and compliant research use

§  Interdisciplinary collaboration

CREATING WEB ARCHIVES

§  Harvesting, preservation, and/or access

§  Collection development

§  Legal and ethical concerns

§  Programmatic organization and management

§  New/updated tools for any part of the lifecycle

§  Application programming interfaces (APIs)

§  Current and future landscape

Proposals may be submitted for any of the following formats:

§  Individual presentation for a 30-minute session (i.e., 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for questions);

§  Moderated discussion or multi-presentation panel for a 60-minute session;

§  Moderated discussion or multi-presentation panel for a 90-minute session; or

§  Poster with accompanying lightning talk.

Time will additionally be reserved in the schedule for the proposal of lightning talks much closer to the event to allow for more timely sharing of recent updates.

Please submit your proposals using this form. For questions, please e-mail wac17@iipc.simplelists.com.

The deadline for submissions is 20 October 2016. All submissions will be reviewed by the WAC17 Programme Committee and submitters will be notified by 1 December 2016.

For more information and updates, see:

http://www.netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2017/overview

@NetPreserve #iipcGA17 #iipcWAC17

Members of the CNI community will be interested to learn about this interesting event having to do with scholarly research persistent identifiers.
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Why build an open identifier infrastructure? So that anyone can use it to create cool tools and services for the research community.
Open identifiers deserve their own festival!

We’re delighted to invite you to register for PIDapalooza, a two-day festival for scholarly research persistent identifiers (PIDs) organized by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCiD.

This community gathering for everyone who’s working with PIDs, including digital tech experts, publishers, researchers, tool builders, research organizations, and scholarly infrastructure providers.

The program will include a mixture of PID demos, workshops, brainstorming, updates on the state of the art, and more — and we invite your contributions. Please use this form to tell us about the session you’d like to run. The program committee will review all suggestions received by September 18 and let you know whether you’ve been successful by the first week of October.

Registration is now open. We welcome offers of sponsorship if you are interested in co-producing this together with us- please contact info@pidapalooza.org for details.

Come share your ideas with a crowd of like-minded innovators – and please help us spread the word about PIDapalooza in your community!

Where: Radisson Blu Saga Hotel Reykjavik, Hagatorg, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland

When: 9th and 10th November 2016

We’ll be posting more information about the festival lineup on the PIDapalooza website and on Twitter (@PIDapalooza) in the coming weeks.

We hope to see you in November!

—
Patricia Cruse
Executive Director, DataCite
patricia.cruse@datacite.org
phone: +1 510-725-0071
http://www.datacite.org

 

 

I wanted to share this call for submissions with the CNI community. CNI is once again collaborating on this important international conference, scheduled to take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 20-23, 2017.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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*Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation in workflows for data science, scholarship and society*

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will take place in Edinburgh from 20-23 February 2017. The organising committee are now inviting submissions. IDCC, now in its 12th year, brings together digital curation professionals and educators with data producers and consumers to consider digital curation in a multi-disciplinary context.

The theme for this year’s conference is embedding digital curation.
Definitions of digital curation have changed little, but its scope is
becoming ever more pervasive. Data science and open science are gaining prominence. Public infrastructures for data storage, sharing and publishing are gaining capability, while the research publishing sector rapidly evolves. For policy makers, the question of how to ensure research data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is tied to the question of how to ensure flexible and resilient infrastructures are openly available to support communities in that endeavour.

We invite submissions addressing these questions, including but not
limited to the following topics:

– Policy harmonisation and monitoring for a joined-up data world
– Capacity development for open science skills and readiness
– Reproducibility and provenance across research workflows
– Sensitivity, ethical data management
– Reusability of digital collections
– Discoverability and data publishing

Submissions can take a number of forms, including research papers,
practice papers, posters and workshops. Papers are all considered for
fee-free open-access publication in the International Journal of
Digital Curation.

For more details on the submission process, criteria and submission
deadlines, please visit the conference website
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/drupal/events/idcc17
Kevin Ashley
On behalf of the IDCC 2017 Programme Committee

 

 

I wanted to share this announcement about scholarships for the the
upcoming October 13-14,2016 conference Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News that is being held at UCLA. My understanding is that regular registration is still open as well. The conference web site is at:

https://www.rjionline.org/dtmh2016

I had the opportunity to participate in the first of this series of
meetings, and found it very helpful. I am planning to attend this one
as well, and look forward to seeing some CNI-announce readers there.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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DTMH 2016 at UCLA

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News forum organizers today announced a travel scholarship program for select graduate students to attend the forum at the UCLA Library on Oct. 13 and 14. The travel scholarship committee is especially interested in working with students from underrepresented and underserved communities.

At the two day forum we will explore solutions to the most urgent
threat to cultural memory today – the loss of online news content.
Journalistic content published on websites and through social media
channels, is fragile and easily lost in a tsunami of digital content.
Join other professional journalists, librarians, archivists,
technologists and entrepreneurs in addressing the urgent need to save the first rough draft of history in digital form.

The forum ? hosted by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Journalism Digital News Archive (JDNA), UCLA Library and the Educopia Institute ? will feature thought leaders, stakeholders and digital preservation practitioners who are passionate about preserving born-digital news. Sessions will update attendees about existing initiatives, examine critical issues and create a national agenda for protecting online journalism.

A Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support these DTMH-IMLS scholarships, which will be offered to students enrolled in graduate programs (e.g., library/information science, journalism, computer science or related fields) in the U.S. A minimum of 10 students will be selected for the awards. As part of their participation, recipients are expected to complete short-term projects supporting the goals of the conference.

 

 

I know many cni-announce subscribers have registered for the Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinars in the past; they are high quality and engaging. Here is the fall line-up.

Joan Lippincott, CNI

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Greetings.

We are pleased to announce the Fall 2016 LSC Webinar Series. These webinars continue discussions from the Spring 2016 Roundtables about questions to ask in the process of embedding attention to a particular facilities project in ongoing, institution-wide efforts toward transformative and sustainable change.

Webinar facilitators tell stories from their personal experience about identifying and working with key agents of change across the campus, about seeking and embracing evidence about the effectiveness of 21^st century pedagogical approaches, about the impact of the planning process and the reality of new spaces for learning on the institutional culture and future.

Webinar facilitators represent the diversity of perspectives and expertise that need to be drawn into the planning process, illustrating how academics and architects learn with and from each other, how planning spaces becomes an exercise in problem-solving. Campuses are encouraged to convene a cadre of stakeholders to participate in the webinar and join together in follow-up discussions.

Logistics:

Schedule: Webinars are scheduled from 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. EDT.

Registration fee: Registration is $200 for a single webinar; fee for all four webinars is $700.

Post-webinar resource: All registrants have access to a webinar recording.

 

Schedule:

September 15: Calibrating the Return of Investing in Active Learning Spaces: The Institutional Perspective

October 5: A Campus-wide “Space Matters” Culture

November 1: Spaces for Dissolving Boundaries between Communities

December 1: Transformative Renovations and New Connections

 

About the September 15 LSC Webinar:

Questions to be explored:

·         What comes first in planning active learning spaces: attention to space or pedagogy? 

·         How to balance an institution’s need to provide more classroom seats to accommodate growing enrollments, more tuition income against institutional goals for increased retention, student success? 

·         How to create a balance of active-learning spaces—formal and informal, from large lecture halls to corners and hallways signaling that learning happens everywhere?

 

Join us to learn about best practices in learning space design: ubiquity; proximity; mobility; connectivity and adaptability. 

1.     Oregon State University— Learning Innovation Center  (LInC) (Roundtable Portfolio)

2.     University of Maryland College Park—The Edward. St. John Learning and Teaching Center (Roundtable Portfolio)

 

  

#1                                               #2

 

 

Please be in touch with any questions.

 Jeanne

 

 

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Jeanne L. Narum
The Independent Colleges Office, Director
Learning Spaces Collaboratory, Principal
D: (202) 256-8872
C: (202) 528-0305
jlnarum.lsc.ico@gmail.com
http://www.pkallsc.org/