We invite you to explore the summer 2025 edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. This collection comprises contributions covering a range of topics, including open infrastructure, digital literacy, identity management, and more.
Several sessions report on community-driven efforts to examine how emerging technologies and external pressures are shaping the research and higher education ecosystem.
- A video from Ithaka S+R overviews the Making Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generative for Higher Education project, which brought together 18 higher education institutions to explore how generative AI is impacting teaching, learning, and research. The presentation highlights the findings, which illuminate AI adoption patterns, the challenges instructors and researchers are facing, and related support needs; it serves as a follow-on to a lightning round presented at CNI’s spring 2023 meeting.
- AI Bots and Repositories—Results and Next Steps from COAR Survey overviews a recent Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) survey to better understand the impact of the growing number of AI bots and crawlers, which in some cases cause service disruptions in repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures. The presentation provides a summary of the findings and discusses next steps.
- As policy shifts threatened federal research funding and disrupted agencies central to the knowledge ecosystem, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) conducted a poll to gauge the impact of these changes on open infrastructures and to identify emerging patterns. IOI’s Katherine Skinner discusses the findings in Vital Open Infrastructures in a Volatile Moment, and explores key questions, including how different stakeholder communities are experiencing and responding to these pressures.
Dryad, an open source platform for publishing research data, has long struggled to set a fee structure that balances costs with partner needs. In 2024, it convened a multi-stakeholder group to advise on fee development. A Community-designed Plan for Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure details the process, fee model decisions, and broader implications for funding open infrastructure and repositories.
Representing Researchers in the Library Linked Data Environment: A Case Study of ORCID Users at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) reports on a study that explored Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) usage at UTK for research support and library catalog metadata.
Scaling Digital Literacy in Nigeria: Kolibri’s Journey describes a University at Buffalo Libraries collaboration with the Enugu Ministry of Education to provide digital literacy staff training, curriculum development, offline digital resources, and open access educational content in low-connectivity environments using Kolibri, an offline, open‑source learning platform.
CNI Paul Evan Peters scholarship recipient Adam Berkowitz discusses current trends in AI ethics literature in What’s Missing in AI Ethics Literature. Berkowitz notes a lack of engagement with frameworks in moral philosophy and discusses why this approach can be problematic.
We thank the presenters for sharing their work with our community; please contact them directly with questions or comments about their projects. More videos from CNI, including those from our recent Spring 2025 Membership Meeting, are available at cni.org, and on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.
