CNI News

The report "Out of Cite, Out of Mind" produced by the US CODATA group and the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), covering current practices and policies on data citation is now available. I have included the announcement … [Read more...]

The Digital Preservation Network: A Report and Discussion on DPN’s Emerging Architecture, System Protocol & Service Model, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Tom Cramer and James Simon of Stanford University, is now available … [Read more...]

In this recent podcast interview from EDUCAUSE, Wake Forest University e-Learning Librarian Kyle Denlinger talks about how the Wake Forest Library experimented with massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) as a new way to sell the concept of librarians as … [Read more...]

We posted the announcement of registration for this conference on Data Information Literacy and the conference reached its registration cap very quickly; I know some of you were disappointed that you would not be able to attend in person. The conference … [Read more...]

The Fall 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 9-10 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. Registration materials are being sent to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration … [Read more...]

There's a very nice book coming out from Information Today, edited by Donald Hawkins, which pulls together many of the key themes that have emerged from the last few Personal Digital Archiving conferences and offers a broad look at developments in this … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this call for comments with the broad CNI community. Preserving digital news is a very important problem, and a very hard one; the NEH-funded project that is creating this document should be a helpful step. Clifford Lynch Director, … [Read more...]

LSC (Learning Spaces Collaboratory) formerly known as Project Kaleidoscope or PKAL, has been offering terrific workshop on learning spaces for a number of years. You will see below the offerings for this fall, including both in-person events and webinars. … [Read more...]

Registration is now open for the ARL Fall Forum 2013, Mobilizing the Research Enterprise, to be held in Arlington, Virginia, October 10–11. The program will explore the response to the White House memorandum “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally … [Read more...]

Stephen Wolfram has an incredible record of innovation, ranging from his early work in cellular automata through his development of Mathematica (25 years old this year), and more recently the publication of the book "A New Kind of Science" and the creation … [Read more...]