CNI News

One of the fundamental problems with open access scholarly publishing has been ensuring the preservation of these materials. There are both structural (eg roles and responsibility questions) and funding challenges here which have long been familiar to … [Read more...]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been funding a major initiative to examine and transform monuments and memorials (see https://mellon.org/initiatives/monuments/ ) On September 29, 2021 they hosted a fascinating webinar (see … [Read more...]

As a reminder, we are now accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Fall 2021 Membership Meeting. The virtual event will take place online Dec. 6-9; the in-person event will take place Dec. 13-14 in Washington, DC, at the JW … [Read more...]

The US Copyright Office, in partnership with the Patent and Trademark Office, is convening (apparently both via Zoom and in person), a session on the interactions between copyright law and machine learning/artificial Intelligence. This is an interesting … [Read more...]

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a rather interesting PDF FAQ on post-quantum cryptography, which can be found at https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/04/2002821837/-1/-1/1/Quantum_FAQs_20210804.PDF I'm sorry for not catching this and … [Read more...]

Here's an interesting preprint (I am somewhat unclear where it stands in the publication process and if it's been through peer review, though it appears like it may come out in a UK Royal Society venue) which looks at publication patterns by discipline … [Read more...]

Some of you may have attended a virtual workshop hosted by the US National Academies in November 2020 which introduced a draft toolkit for fostering open science practices. This September, the Academies are holding a launch event for the report of that … [Read more...]

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Fall 2021 Membership Meeting. At this time, we expect to hold BOTH a virtual event and an in-person event, each independently of one another, and designed to complement … [Read more...]

The August 31, 2021 Wall Street Journal carried an article on the strategic Cloudlab initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to be a cooperating organization for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) again this year. JCDL 2021 will be online, Sept. 27-30, 2021. Registration is open: https://2021.jcdl.org/registration/ Advanced registration ends … [Read more...]