CNI News

A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's spring 2014 meeting is now available: Integrating Researcher Identifiers Into University And Library Systems Micah Altman (MIT) and Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC Research) Video of the presentation is … [Read more...]

A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's spring 2014 meeting is now available: E-Textbook Initiatives in Libraries and IT Organizations Glenda Morgan & Milind Basole (UIUC), Pat Reid (Purdue), and Todd Grappone (UCLA) Video of the … [Read more...]

Over the last few months the Obama administration has been conducting a number of public sessions (at NYU, UC Berkeley, and MIT) on issues around big data and privacy. There's now a page up on the White House web site which collects material on all these … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to announce video of the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture "Computers, Plans, and Campfires," given by Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The talk was presented as the closing plenary of CNI's spring 2014 … [Read more...]

A Conversation About the Present and the Future of Technology, Knowledge and Culture, the opening plenary from CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting, with Bryan Alexander and Clifford Lynch, is now online: YouTube: http://youtu.be/pN7F3PdK5nk Vimeo: … [Read more...]

Recent talks on stewardship at scale by CNI director Clifford Lynch are now available online: Challenges of Stewardship at Scale in the Digital Age Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Distinguished Speaker Series, Jan. 30, … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the announcement of this new report from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) addressing payoffs from data curation and data sharing with the CNI community. It has already generated some lively discussion on more specialized … [Read more...]

One of the questions that comes up repeatedly is about the genuinely new applications that very high speed (eg gigabit) networks can enable, as opposed to the role of these networks in just aggregating large numbers of much slower individual connections. … [Read more...]

At the CNI Spring Member Meeting earlier this week, Karen Smith-Yoshimura from OCLC and Micah Altman from MIT gave a wonderful presentation of the work of the OCLC Registering Researchers Task Group (see … [Read more...]

The schedule for CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting has been posted: www.cni.org/go/cni-spring-2014-schedule Also posted recently to the meeting website (www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014): *Project briefing abstracts *Complete schedule of events for … [Read more...]