CNI News

David Rosenthal of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) considers the big picture of digital preservation costs, and their implications, in his talk Improving the Odds of Preservation, presented at CNI's December 2014 member meeting, and now available … [Read more...]

My apologies: I have gotten very backlogged in sharing some of the interesting new reports with the CNI community, and I want to catch up on a few from the UK here. First, Unique and Distinctive Collections: Opportunities for Research LIbraries, … [Read more...]

On March 3 CNI is going to host a small workshop to develop a near term agenda for work needed to improve security and privacy in systems related to scholarly communication and access to scholarly information resources. The focus will be largely technical, … [Read more...]

What are some ways that libraries can leverage the Web to make their collections more broadly discoverable and accurately represented? This presentation, from CNI's December 2014 member meeting, features speakers with experience using Linked Open Data and … [Read more...]

How can digital archiving practices be substantively incorporated into pedagogies and curricula targeting university students? How might digital archiving processes, including digitization, transcription, and metadata creation, be incorporated in higher … [Read more...]

Universities and libraries are increasingly moving to use the data streams created by their constituents in order to provide the best services and resources possible, but the use of this information challenges long-held principles with regard to privacy, … [Read more...]

The proliferation of search engine optimization (SEO), Web analytics, and user tracking results in much greater leakage of user data across the Web, particularly into ad-sharing and social networks, while at the same time libraries seek to utilize these … [Read more...]

The Linked Data For Libraries (LD4L) Project: A Progress Report, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2014 membership meeting, with Dean Krafft (Cornell), and Tom Cramer (Stanford), is now available online: online pharmacy … [Read more...]

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Spring 2015 CNI Membership Meeting on April 13-14 1 in Seattle, Washington at The Westin Seattle. Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for TPDL again this year. -------- Call for Contributions 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Poznań, Poland, September 14-18, … [Read more...]