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Nov. CNI Conversations Available
An audio archive of the November CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). The discussion featured a preview of the … [Read more...]
Complying with new P2P mandates
Here's information on an upcoming EDUCAUSE Live webcast on a timely topic. "Complying with P2P Mandates in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008" http://www.educause.edu/live0921 1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Monday, November 23. No charge, but … [Read more...]
Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics
CNI director Clifford Lynch will moderate the closing panel of this workshop, to take place the day after the fall CNI meeting. Registration is now open for "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges," a one-day NSF-funded workshop that … [Read more...]
CNI Mtg Registration Reminder
The registration deadline for the Fall 2009 CNI Task Force meeting is FRIDAY, NOV. 13th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting Web site … [Read more...]
Streaming Video of “The Right to Information Access” on 10/30
CNI Director Clifford Lynch will give the talk "Rights to Knowledge and Remembering" at 2:05 EST today at Penn State's 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy symposium, "The Right to Information Access." … [Read more...]
CNI at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver
CNI Director Clifford Lynch will be a facilitator for the session "Initiatives from the NSF's DataNet Program: DataONE and the Data Conservancy" on Wed. Nov. 4th, 11:40am-12:30pm in the Korbel Ballroom 1A-C at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver, Colorado next … [Read more...]
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...]