CNI News

Many new videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting are now available:

COVID-19 Related: Technology Planning for Operational Continuity (Dhanushka Samarakoon, University of Miami)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/H2B7pKoHcTE
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412611311

Fostering a UX Culture across Campus (Rebecca Blakiston, University of Arizona)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zxzwJQHuewk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/413469369

Empowering Data-Driven Research through an Open, Accessible Data Infrastructure (Jamie V. Wittenberg, Indiana University)
YouTube:  https://youtu.be/svf0zD438n0
Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/412231983

Immersive Scholar: Development, Documentation, Display, and Dissemination of Experiential Research and Scholarship (Micah Vandegrift & Shelby Hallman, North Carolina State University)
YouTube; https://youtu.be/uEY3scL0Utg
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412227378

DevOps is Bigger than IT: Driving Digital Transformation in Libraries (Jennifer Vinopal & Mary Beth Snapp, University of Ohio)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/C8M6jy_ut_c
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/411241025

It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve (Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati; Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QPgCdMeupDw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/411081071

Reflections on a Merger: Assessing the Program-Level Impact of LYRASIS + DuraSpace (David Wilcox, LYRASIS; Rosalyn Metz, Emory University; Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia; Tim Shearer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Julia Trimmer, Duke University; Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UmRD5k-N4bw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/413469369

IIIF at the Getty: Vision & Tactics (Stefano Cossu, J.P. Getty Trust)
YouTube:  https://youtu.be/KPaOJkScCr8
Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/412232447

Arks in the Open: 3.2 billion Persisten Identifiers (John Kunze, University of California; Bess Missell, Smithsonian Institution; Karen Hanson, Ithaka; Tom Creighton, FamilySearch International)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/DA9F2e5ZRYw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/412227303

To see all videos produced by CNI, including all that have been released so far from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020), visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

-Diane

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart

There will be a three-day free Youtube based conference starting 1pm EST  May 1 (Friday), with additional  sessions at 1pm EST on May 2 and May 3. Apologies for the late notice but I just found out about it myself. For details see

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/live-conference-digital-technologies-and-cultural-heritage

The speaker lineup is extremely impressive. It’s not clear if the session will be recorded for subsequent asynchronous viewing based on the announcement. I’ve pasted the program below..

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Programme
Discussion 1: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects they Display
Rethinking the role and value of culture in the shadow of an uncertain future
Friday 1 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, CBE, former Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts
Participants
Sir Mark Jones, Chairman of the National Museum Directors’ Conference, former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
András Szántó, Author and Cultural Strategy Advisor, Founder of Andras Szanto LLC
Mari Lending, Professor in Architectural Theory and History and founding member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies
Marina Warner, Writer of fiction, criticism, and history and President of the Royal Society of Literature
Neil MacGregor, Founding Director of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin and former Director of the British Museum

Discussion 2: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing
Creating a cultural economy based on sharing skills, technologies and knowledge
Saturday 2 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science, Cambridge University
Participants
Anaïs Aguerre, Founder and Managing Director of Culture Connect Ltd, ReACH Project Director
Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London
Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum
Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large
Bonnie Greer, Playwright, author and critic

Discussion 3: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge
Compiling, analysing, presenting information in an age of machine learning
Sunday 3 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair
Sir Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group
Participants
Brian Cantwell Smith, Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto
Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Museology, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Frédéric Kaplan, Professor and Digital Humanities Chair, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Carol Mandel, Dean Emerita of New York University (NYU) Libraries
William Owen, Founder of Made by Many

The Designing Libraries for the Twenty-First Century IX Conference, which was to have been held at Temple University in Philadelphia on October 18-20, 2020, is postponed out of concern for participants’ and presenters’ health and safety. A new date has not yet been set.

A major aspect of the Designing Libraries conferences is the experience of visiting new and/or renovated libraries, and the planning group is delighted that the next conference will be held at the stunning and state-of-the-art Charles Library at Temple University https://www.temple.edu/about/libraries/charles . In addition to experiencing library spaces, the participants at the conference, which include architects, designers, planners, academic administrators, faculty, librarians, and information technologists, find the informal interactions at the conference venue very valuable. For those reasons, we will not be offering a virtual conference as a substitute but will defer the conference to a later date when everyone can feel secure in making travel plans and attending conferences.

We will announce the new date when available via listservs.

Thank you.

Tom Hickerson, Founder, Designing Libraries Conference

Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

Joe Lucia, Temple University

Greg Raschke, North Carolina State University

In the chaos of the past two months, I’ve mostly refrained from sharing published materials with the cni-announce list, partially because I’ve been swamped, and partially because I think many readers of this list have been swamped. Here are a few that I’ve accumulated which I think are particularly important or timely:

Congressional Research Service, Report on the Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal Research and Development Enterprise, April 10, 2020

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46309

This is a very valuable synthesis addressing a critically important topic; note that it’s focused on science agencies like NSF, NIH, NASA. The higher education research enterprise is much broader and also encompasses, for example, the humanities, and the federal government does fund work in this area through organizations like NEH, NARA, and IMLS. Note that CNI has been convening a series of extraordinary Executive Roundtables over the past two weeks looking at the continuity of the research enterprise; we hope to have a report of these conversations out in early to mid-May and will announce it here.

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Danielle Cooper, Technologies at Hand: On Researcher Practices During a Pandemic, April 14, 2020

https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/technologies-at-hand/

A fascinating and relatively brief report from Ithaka S+R, very much worth reading.

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Results of an EDUCAUSE quick poll on the help that institutions are providing students in the transition to fully remote access.

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/4/educause-covid-19-quickpoll-results-help-for-students

A quick and very interesting read.

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Public Workshop on Opportunities for Accelerating Scientific Discovery: Realizing the Potential of Advanced and Automated Workflows \

This was a hugely important public symposium that was hosted by the National Academies on March 16-17, 2020. It was moved from an in-person to a virtual event at the last minute; I was fortunate to be able to attend. It was convened to support the work of a National Academies committee exploring the same topic which is being chaired by Dan Atkins of the University of Michigan (and Paul Evans Peters Award winner, among many many other honors). More information and all of the presentations are available at:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/03-16-2020/realizing-opportunities-for-advanced-and-automated-workflows-in-scientific-research-second-meeting

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Matthew Kirschenbaum, BOOKS.FILES: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry, March 26, 2020

Here’s Matt’s announcement:

I am happy to announce BOOKS.FILES: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry, a 25k-word report written with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and in collaboration with the Book Industry Study Group.

Download the PDF here:

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/25605

This open access research report builds on a Convening held two years ago at the Pierpont Morgan Library that brought together representatives from book history and bibliography (among other fields) and the publishing industry. It addresses the global transition of contemporary publishing and bookmaking to digital workflows, and the implications for publishers’ archives and other forms of primary source evidence for future book history, bibliography, and literary and cultural history more generally. It seeks to explain how books are actually made nowadays and at what points in the production process digital assets might be earmarked for future archiving.

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AI for Science, Department of Energy Report, March 11, 2020

This is a massive report from the DOE National Labs looking at applications of AI in scientific research. It has interesting connections to other work going on internationally, such as the Jisc Research 4.0 study which I’ve discussed here before, and also to thinking such as Tony Hey from Rutherford Labs in the UK described in his talk at the AAAS meeting in February 2020 (see more on Tony’s work at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2019.0054 ). The announcement and a link to the report is at

https://www.anl.gov/ai-for-science-report

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I hope these links are helpful.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting have been added to our channels:

Guided by Values: Creating an Open Values Statement (Tina Baich, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/KtDtoKI0pl8
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/407880033

Designing an Inclusive Digital Exhibition Experience (Rebecca Bayeck, New York Public Library)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gfaLU_pgFbA
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/406722231

Collaboration and Community: Creating the Atla Digital Library for Collecting and Connecting in Religion and Theology (Christine Fruin, Atla; Kevin Kochanski, Notch8)
YouTube; https://youtu.be/peWCKokduh0
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/407882074

Previously released from this meeting:

Developing a Collaborative Infrastructure in Support of Research Data Management Skill Building for Researchers and Data Stewards: Enhancing ESIP’s Data Management Training Clearinghouse (Karl Benedict, University of New Mexico; Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wZFrieHXkeI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405315650

Perspectives on Digital Scholarship Programs (Joan Lippincott, CNI)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-YhjhdHEBpI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405314432

Organizing for OER Action: Recommendations for Statewide OER Initiative Governance Structures (Steven J. Bell, Temple University)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y1nhfjjybFc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/404742233

Central Washington University’s OER and No-cost Textbook Initiative (Rebecca L. Lubas, Central Washington University; Maura Valentino, Central Washington University)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ge7_Y7qpZBo
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/404736028

Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2019: First Release of Key Findings (Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Ithaka; Jennifer Frederick, Ithaka)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CvJl-MdGZ9c
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403765439

Review, Appraisal and Triage of Email (RATOM) (Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina; Kam Woods, University of North Carolina)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/a11LBjKYjuI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403956002

Opening Plenary: It’s 2020 … Where is my Flying Car and Cultural Heritage Research Data Ecosystem? (Robert Sanderson, The Getty Trust)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UQMk68M62QA
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403064224

Closing Plenary: Reflections on Twenty Years of Designing Digital Scholarship (Tara McPherson, University of Southern California)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qL0PXz2KUv8
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403099182

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

In light of the current situation, CNI and Jisc have decided that we will have to postpone the scheduled joint leaders meeting on frontiers in research practice that was set  to take place in  Bristol, UK this July. It’s our intention to reschedule this for Summer 2021, and we hope to announce dates in the near future.

For those already registered for the meeting, you’ll hear from Jisc about refunds directly.

I’m really sorry to have to postpone this conference, but I look forward to sharing developments around the 2021 program as we shape it with our partners at Jisc.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting have been added to our channels:

Developing a Collaborative Infrastructure in Support of Research Data Management Skill Building for Researchers and Data Stewards: Enhancing ESIP’s Data Management Training Clearinghouse (Karl Benedict, University of New Mexico; Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wZFrieHXkeI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405315650

Perspectives on Digital Scholarship Programs (Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-YhjhdHEBpI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405314432

Organizing for OER Action: Recommendations for Statewide OER Initiative Governance Structures (Steven J. Bell, Temple University)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y1nhfjjybFc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/404742233

Central Washington University’s OER and No-cost Textbook Initiative (Rebecca L. Lubas, Central Washington University; Maura Valentino, Central Washington University)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ge7_Y7qpZBo
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/404736028

Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2019: First Release of Key Findings (Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Ithaka; Jennifer Frederick, Ithaka)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CvJl-MdGZ9c
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403765439

Review, Appraisal and Triage of Email (RATOM) (Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina; Kam Woods, University of North Carolina)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/a11LBjKYjuI
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403956002

Previously released from the virtual meeting:

Opening Plenary: It’s 2020 … Where is my Flying Car and Cultural Heritage Research Data Ecosystem? (Robert Sanderson, The Getty Trust)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UQMk68M62QA
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403064224

Closing Plenary: Reflections on Twenty Years of Designing Digital Scholarship (Tara McPherson, University of Southern California)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qL0PXz2KUv8
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403099182

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI