CNI News

(I know that announcements of the availability of this volume have had considerable distribution, but I wanted to add a few comments of my own) In May of 2011, I was fortunate to be able to participate in a very valuable conference hosted by the … [Read more...]

Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Virginia Steel and Robin Chandler of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is now … [Read more...]

Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Courtney Loder, a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), as the 2012 recipient of the Paul Evan … [Read more...]

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of higher education; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the … [Read more...]

Neil Beagrie has just announced the availability of a new report of the Economic Impact Evaluation of the UK Economic and Social Science Data Service (ESDS).  This is an important contribution to a literature that is still far too sparse, and I believe it … [Read more...]

This is a very welcome development in the gradual convergence of biography, factual biography and bioliography CNI has been seeking to encourage. I have not seen much about this work; basically, linkages will be built between the biographical entries in … [Read more...]

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of big data; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the Internet" … [Read more...]

The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) will be holding its next meeting in Washington DC on August 29-30. Much of the meeting is open to the public and includes a wide range of updates on developments in data management and … [Read more...]

The EDUCAUSE Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI)'s Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group has just issued a new white paper that takes a broad synthesizing look at the series of reports issued by a series of task forces to the NSF Advisory … [Read more...]

The DFG (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has just released a new strategy paper on approaches to developing and funding information infrastructues for research over the next five years; this should be of interest to a … [Read more...]