CNI News

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting are due NEXT MONDAY, Oct. 22.  Proposals may be submitted via the online form: https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2012/ or by e-mail … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to serve, once again, as a cooperating organization for IS&T's Archiving conference. ------------- The Archiving 2013 conference committee encourages you to submit an abstract for their consideration to be presented at the April … [Read more...]

Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award DEADLINE:  OCTOBER 26, 2012 The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting international achievements related to information technology and the creation and use of information resources … [Read more...]

"Discovery Informatics" is a broad term that is now seeing some use as a way of describing a series of issues that have been of ongoing interest to CNI: text mining for knowledge discovery; text markup, multimedia tagging, and metadata structures to … [Read more...]

David Rosenthal has made preprints of two important new papers available. One is called "Economics of Long Term Digital Storage" and is available at http://www.lockss.org/locksswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/unesco2012.pdf This paper extends his … [Read more...]

Duke University  and Dartmouth College have been doing some fabulous work supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over the past few years, looking deeply at institutional digital information management strategies. One of the most fascinating and … [Read more...]

I was fortunate to be able to participate in an excellent symposium that Harvard University  hosted on May 16, 2012 exploring issues in contribution and attribution in scholarly communications. This connects in complex ways with work that is underway in … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to serve again this year as a cooperating organization for the IS&T Archiving Conference. ---------------------- IS&T is pleased to announce the 10th Archiving Conference which will be held April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the recent announcement of this valuable international resource with the CNI community. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ------------------------------ International Knowledge Base on Virtual Research Environments now released A … [Read more...]

PASIG, the Preservation and Access Special Interest Group, is meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 16-18, 2012. Here's the latest information on the conference. I'll be doing a plenary talk on the morning of the last day. Note that early registration … [Read more...]