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Seeking Kilgour Award Nominations
Nominations are invited for the 2010 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). … [Read more...]
Oct. CNI Conversations Available
An audio archive of the October CNI Conversations session is now available at https://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/. During that discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium. Cliff also … [Read more...]
New Publication Dedicated to Jim Gray
A collection of essays, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, is available for download at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/contents.aspx The publication is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and … [Read more...]
Reminder: Project Briefing Proposals due Oct. 23
Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2009 Task Force Meeting are due Friday, October 23. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at https://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/proposal.html. The fall meeting … [Read more...]
METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond
Organized by ARL, January 18-22, 2010 in Boston, MA The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Measurement Program is offering a five day workshop entitled METS: The Basics and Beyond to be held in partnership with Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich … [Read more...]
NDIIPP Workshop on Storage Architectures
Materials from the Workshop Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation organized by the Library of Congress NDIIPP program, held on September 22-23, 2009 are available at … [Read more...]
Audio Archive of CNI Conversations Now Available
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI has launched a program we are calling CNI Conversations, a series of sessions in which participants from member institutions take part in discussions on current topics … [Read more...]
Text Mining Workshop in the UK
The Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop will take place 28-29 October at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. The aim of the event is to examine the issues, challenges and priorities associated with … [Read more...]
Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2009 The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting international achievements related to high performance networks and the creation and use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and … [Read more...]
Repositories and European Collaboration Conference
Subject Repositories: European collaboration in the international context will take place at the British Library Conference Centre in London on January 28-29, 2010. Among the speakers are Chuck Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information … [Read more...]