CNI News

There’s a very interesting new report available from Danielle Cooper and Rebecca Springer at Ithaka S+R today titled “Data Communities: A New Model for Supporting STEM Data Sharing” which uses the concept of data sharing communities to explore successful data sharing practices and to underpin a strategy to promote greater sharing. Note that while the examples are STEM based, I believe that the concepts are much more broadly applicable and hence this paper should be of very wide interest.

The paper is available either to read online or as a PDF download at

https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/data-communities/

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

New videos from CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels:

Beyond Tools and Space: Building a Community of Practice for Making (Beth Marhanka & Don Undeen, Georgetown University)

The dynamic environment of Georgetown University Library’s Maker Hub is creating opportunities for interdisciplinary work, fruitful collaborations, and surprising innovations. This presentation discusses how various programs have contributed to Georgetown’s thriving maker community.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xa_RW4VBjZc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/333995812

3D Scanning and Augmented Reality as a Method to Deliver and Promote Digital Collections in Libraries & Museums (Chad Hutchens & Tyler Kerr, University of Wyoming)
This presentation discusses a 3D content delivery system that utilizes both traditional print media as well as a smart device augmented reality (AR) application. This content delivery method for collections has potential for public outreach, fundraising, mobile and interactive collection uses, as well as promising pedagogical use for open educational resources.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/y80gj6NKgGc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/334678336

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

Yesterday the US National Academies released a committee report addressing Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. This has many implications not only for scientific practice broadly, but also for the scholarly communications system and for research data management.

The announcement can be found at http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=25303

The report (or the executive summary) can be downloaded as a free PDF at https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25303/reproducibility-and-replicability-in-science

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The latest issue of ARL’s Research Library Issues, “The Current Privacy Landscape,” examines privacy from legal, digital & applied perspectives, with a focus on implications & opportunities for research libraries. RLI 297 (2019) is freely available online at https://publications.arl.org/rli297/.

A piece by CNI’s Clifford Lynch appears in the issue: “Reader Privacy: The New Shape of the Threat,” includes a brief summary of threats to reader privacy and suggestions for research libraries on how to address them.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

This event will be of interest to members of the CNI community – note that the webinar takes place this coming Monday, May 6th, but that it will be recorded.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

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Greetings from the PEGI Project team!

Since our National Forum in December, we have been working on a summary report of the event. We expect our report to be published by Educopia on or by May 3rd, and we are hosting a webinar to discuss its contents and next steps for the project. This report would not have been possible without your participation in our forum, and we hope you will continue to be a part of our growing community. 

This webinar will take place on Monday, May 6th, at 1:00 PM EDT (New York, GMT-04:00)  and will be recorded for those who will not be able to join us live. 

PEGI Project National Forum Summary and Report Webinar

Monday, May 6, 2019  

1:00 pm  |  Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)  |  1 hr  

Meeting number (access code): 804 352 033  

Click here to add this appointment to your calendar. When it’s time, join the meeting by clicking here. 

To join from a video system or application, dial 804352033@uncg.webex.com. You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. 

To join by phone: +1-415-655-0002 US Toll

Warm regards,

Martin Halbert (Ph.D., MLIS), UNC Greensboro Dean of Libraries

Several new videos from CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels:

Holistic Approaches to Research Data Management: Scholars as Collectors
Oya Y. Rieger, Danielle Cooper (Ithaka S+R)
Explores recent research demonstrating that scholars tend to amass complex, varied information collections, and that they need support in managing these collections. Doing so could lend itself to strategic possibilities.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VNJmyJTAd0M
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/332068458

Of Data, Ethics, and Leadership: Building a National Roadmap for Web Privacy and Web Analytics
Scott W. H. Young, Sara Mannheimer, Jason Clark (Montana State University)
Reports on the activities and findings from the National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics, an IMLS-funded project that brought together librarians, technologists, and privacy researchers to address library values and practices related to web analytics.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FF9XWn8g6HE
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/332068376

Data Science Support for Social Science Research
Christina Maimone (Northwestern University), Alex Storer (Stanford University)
By providing centralized staff trained both in research and data skills to support social science research, universities can increase research efficiency and enable researchers to undertake impactful projects that may otherwise be infeasible.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/SfQDF_YFRYA
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/333390949

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

We’ve posted all presentation materials given to us by speakers to the meeting website (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019) – if you were a speaker at the April meeting and you do not see your slides, please contact me (diane@cni.org).

We’ve also released more videos from the meeting:

Towards Coherence through Collective Action: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable, Open Infrastructure (Maurice York, University of Michigan; Evviva Weinraub, Northwestern University; Heather Joseph, SPARC; Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute) explores two groups (the Open Platform group, and the Invest in Open Infrastructure Working Group) that are making progress toward the goal of establishing efficient infrastructures that supporting the preservation & access of digital collections.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/nV95tz1DSxI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/332067993

OCFL: A Community Developed Approach to Digital Preservation (Andrew Woods, DuraSpace; Rosalyn Metz, Emory University; Simeon Warner, Cornell University)
The Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) specification has grown into a focused, community effort to define an open and application-independent approach to the long-term preservation of digital objects. Developed for structured, transparent, and predictable storage, it is designed to promote sustainable long-term access and management of content within digital repositories.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/sO3kO6lT3Hk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/332068529

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Also from this meeting: 

*Michael L. Nelson’s closing plenary address, “Web Archives at the Nexus of Good Fakes and Flawed Originals”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HhqO85qUkCE
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/330858203

*Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s opening plenary address, “Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity and the Common Good”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1C23uT3xNpw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/330154852

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2019 CNI meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

The video of Michael L. Nelson’s closing plenary address from CNI’s recent membership meeting, “Web Archives at the Nexus of Good Fakes and Flawed Originals,” is now available online. In this talk, Nelson explores the vulnerabilities of web archives as they currently exist, and considers future prospects.

Video of this talk is available on both of CNI’s channels:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HhqO85qUkCE
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/330858203

Also from this meeting:

Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s opening plenary address, “Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity and the Common Good”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1C23uT3xNpw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/330154852

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

EDUCAUSE has released the 2019 Higher Education edition of the Horizon Report, now available at https://library.educause.edu/resources/2019/4/2019-horizon-report

One section of the report describes key trends expected to have an impact on higher education within a given timeframe. This year’s trends include:

Short-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for the next one to two years

• Redesigning Learning Spaces
• Blended Learning Designs

Mid-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for the next three to five years

• Advancing Cultures of Innovation
• Growing Focus on Measuring Learning

Long-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for five or more years

• Rethinking How Institutions Work
• Modularized and Disaggregated Degrees

The report also describes significant impediments to technology adoption as well as important developments in educational technology for higher education.

I was pleased to serve on the Higher Education Expert Panel for the report.

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

The video of Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s opening plenary address from CNI’s recent membership meeting, “Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity and the Common Good,” is now available online. In her talk, Fitzpatrick draws on her recently published book, Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Johns Hopkins, 2019), in which she argues that rebuilding trust between higher education and the public requires focusing practices and modes of communication around building solidarity and community, and that this approach requires a paradigm shift.

You’ll find the video of this talk on both of CNI’s channels:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1C23uT3xNpw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/330154852

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2019 CNI meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).