CNI News

Meeting Roadmap A Guide to the Spring 2018 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting The Spring 2018 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA on April 12 and 13, offers a wide range of presentations … [Read more...]

The final schedule for the Personal Digital Archiving Conference, being held at the University of Houston this year, is now available. They have a very reasonable registration fee for this excellent conference, by the way. CNI is delighted to once again … [Read more...]

Joan Lippincott and Quinn Dombrowski (UC Berkeley) have published a new piece for the E-Content column in EDUCUASE Review. In "Moving Ahead with Support for Digital Humanities,” they argue that IT and library professionals need to engage as key partners to … [Read more...]

Eleanor Fink has prepared a very useful guide and proposed best practices summary for the American Art Collaborative on their effort to publish some 200,000 Linked Data Object (LOD) Records from thirteen museums and one archive. I think this will be of … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this announcement from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) about the availability of a report summarizing a community consultation on their activities and future directions. They are also seeking comments on the report to further inform … [Read more...]

The report of an Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) funded project to look at data science in libraries is now available and can be found at: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/33891/ I have reproduced the abstract below. Those at the Fall 2017 … [Read more...]

While one could argue with some of the methodology here, this is a fascinating report that is unlike anything I have seen. and well worth browsing, as it helps to map out the landscape where stewardship institutions will be making decisions in the next … [Read more...]

The National Institutes of Health have issued a draft of their Strategic Plan for Data Science along with a formal request for comments. You can find both the request for comments and a pointer to the plan … [Read more...]

This is a very good article that collects data from a number of ARL libraries about takedown requests related to the "right to be forgotten." Well worth reviewing. This is a very complex area, and one where the legal frameworks are morphing quickly, but … [Read more...]

Cni-announce/News subscribers are invited to join the Education & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) for a free webinar, in which I will be speaking. Note that you do not need to register in … [Read more...]