CNI News

NISO encourages those individuals who will be in Washington attending the CNI meeting on Dec. 9-10 to stay for their in-person meeting on the Altmetrics Project on Wednesday, Dec. 11. Information is provided below. Joan Lippincott CNI _____ NISO … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the announcement of this fascinating and important conference being hosted by the Smithsonian Institution on November 13-14, 2013 in Washington, DC. It's free, though registration is required and limited. Clifford Lynch Director, … [Read more...]

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) has just issued a report on the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data; this should be of interest in a wide range of data curation contexts. you can find some background on the report, and a pointer to … [Read more...]

In March 2013 the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) hosted a workshop at the LIbrary of Congress to help formulate national strategies for preserving software which I was fortunate to be able to attend. This was a … [Read more...]

As a way of raising awareness and stimulating thinking about the potential for new uses of research data and information, the US National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information (which I currently co-chair), has issued an open challenge … [Read more...]

There's a draft program available for the International Data Curation Conference, and registration is now open. It should be an excellent event, and CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor again this year. I hope to see many of you there. Clifford … [Read more...]

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is pleased to announce the publication of the first edition of the Library Publishing Directory. The Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research … [Read more...]

NC State University hosted a conference Designing Libraries for the 21st Century II held on October 6-8 and the speaker presentations (including my own) are now available at: The Designing Libraries II speaker presentations and program are now … [Read more...]

CNI director Clifford Lynch and David Fenske, founding Dean of Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), discuss top tech, policy, and information science trends and challenges in this public conversation, part of CCI's Fall 2013 … [Read more...]

CNI executive director Clifford Lynch will kick off Loyola's Open Access Week 2013. In his keynote, The Move to Openness: An Intellectual Shift for Our Time, Cliff will address open access, its impact on academic institutions and how the broader … [Read more...]