CNI News

The May 26, 2016 issue of Nature has a very interesting report on a survey that they conducted on scientific reproducibility, as well as an editorial. Both of these are available online without a … [Read more...]

The US National Science Foundation (NSF)  has just recently issued a call for community input on Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, with a particular interest on the role and placement of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division and its programs within NSF. … [Read more...]

The invaluable SIgnal DIgital Preservation blog from the Library of Congress has a great summary post from guest contributor Julia Kim (from the LC American Folklife Center) describing the Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing held by the Radcliff … [Read more...]

New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting are now available: Despite excellent work undertaken by existing players, there is no consistently adopted, open, community-driven infrastructure providing organization identifiers. The Future of Organization … [Read more...]

Last week CNI and ARL held a workshop Planning a Digital Scholarship Center, and presentation slides from our terrific roster of speakers are now available at: https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/dscw16/program-2016 Sessions included such topics as … [Read more...]

Many of your institutions have active electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs, but you may still seek information on best practices in areas such as file formats, metadata, and version control. Our colleagues at Educopia have facilitated the … [Read more...]

I am sharing the announcement below, by University of Calgary, the host of the next Designing Libraries Conference. CNI is proud to be a co-sponsor of this conference series, which highlights innovations and new kinds of programs at libraries. This year we … [Read more...]

New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting are now available: Expensive electronic licensed content promises easy access to vast quantities of digitized material, but its use is restricted by both copyright and licensing agreements. Text and … [Read more...]

Dear readers: In conjunction with the spring 2016 CNI meeting, the University of North Texas (UNT) hosted a Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit. This meeting attracted thought leaders from a variety of sectors, including universities, … [Read more...]

Dear readers: I am pleased to announce that a report of two sessions of a CNI Executive Roundtable on Supporting Digital Humanities is now available at https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CNI-SupportDH-exec-rndtbl.report.F14.pdf In this … [Read more...]