CNI News

National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Martin Halbert (UNT), Rachel Frick (DLF), William Moen (UNT), and Spencer Keralis (UNT), is now … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this announcement from the Association of Research Libraries  on the release of an excellent new publication on Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age, which I think will be of very broad interest within the CNI community. It … [Read more...]

The UK Royal Society has just released the final report of its study on Science as an Open Enterprise, which focuses heavily on data stewardship and sharing. You can find the report, and pointers to related material such as the audio from  yesterday … [Read more...]

If you are interested in assessment related to libraries, this should be an excellent conference.  Kim Duckett of NC State University and I will be giving a full-day workshop on "Library Space Assessment:  Bringing the Focus to Teaching and Learning."  … [Read more...]

Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Howard Besser (NYU), David Millman (NYU), and Sharon Leon (GMU), is now … [Read more...]

Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Howard Besser (NYU), David Millman (NYU), and Sharon Leon (GMU), is now … [Read more...]

Attendees to this year's American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in Anaheim, CA, June 21-26, 2012, will have several opportunities to hear from CNI: *  Top Technology Trends & LITA Awards Presentation Sunday, June 24, 1:30-3:30 … [Read more...]

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has just issued a helpful report (available at at www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151 ) on the first round of the multi-funder international Digging Into Data program. I've reproduced their press release … [Read more...]

CNI-announce readers who attended Jim Duderstadt's opening plenary talk at the Spring 2012 Member meeting or watched the video of the event will recall him discussing the work of National Academies Committee on the Future of the Research University. The … [Read more...]

Chris Greer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Alan Blatecky of the National Science Foundation have prepared a concept paper outlining their thinking about what they call the DataWeb Forum, an organization to facilitate the exchange … [Read more...]