Edition Guide
Coalition for Networked Information
Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
Winter 2025
We invite you to view the nine videos in the Winter 2025 edition of our Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series.
Several briefings focus on generative artificial intelligence (AI) in research and scholarship, including concerns about its ethical use, its effective integration into tools, and support skill development:
- “Is Generative Artificial Intelligence Changing Research Practices?” shares findings from three Ithaka S+R projects—including an international survey of biomedical researchers—that assess the risks and opportunities generative AI presents to the research enterprise. You will also hear about generative AI best practices and models to enhance researcher productivity.
- One briefing explores “How Can LLMs be Integrated Effectively and Responsibly with Existing Researcher Tools and Content?” In 2023, Sage surveyed over 100 librarians and faculty, uncovering both concerns about AI and trust in its potential when paired with Sage content. This session shares their findings and insights, overviews how librarians can foster ethical research practices in the age of generative AI, and highlights Sage’s AI Tutor. Currently under development, the tool guides researchers in ethical research methods planning using Sage Research Methods content.
- “AI Student Support: A Model for The Centre for AI Ethics, Literacy, and Integrity (CAIELI) at the University of Calgary” covers how the Library established a transdisciplinary center to support students’ AI literacy and to foster critical skills in navigating applications ethically and effectively.
A pair of briefings emphasize collaboration and infrastructure, with a focus on communities of practice and standards:
- “The International Image Operability Framework Consortium (IIIF-C): Providing Richer Access to The World’s Image, Audio/Visual, and 3D Digital Content” explores the formation and evolution of the IIIF-C, established in 2015 to develop and implement IIIF standards. The briefing highlights recent developments as IIIF-C marks its tenth anniversary, including future directions, new collaboration models, and an expanded strategic framework to support a range of digital objects.
- “Building a Community of Practice at Scale: Strategies behind the Digital Humanities Core Facility at University of Houston” explains a novel approach to scale digital humanities research. The Digital Humanities Core facility consolidates infrastructure, training, and interdisciplinary expertise into a resource for digital scholarship production and publication; it features a three-tiered micro-credentialing program to equip researchers and students with skills for project planning, development, and funding.
The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) is developing the “Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol” to ensure repositories and the research community are notified of critical updates—such as retractions or corrections—to published literature.
“Enhancing University Rankings: The Strategic Role of Academic Librarians” highlights how academic librarians can leverage their expertise in scholarly publishing, bibliometrics, and research infrastructure to improve university rankings. Using Florida State University Libraries as a case study, it details their bibliometric data remediation project with the provost’s office and an ORCID integration initiative.
“Re-Envisioning the Digital Repository: Showcasing Our Exciting Islandora Solution” explores Lehigh University’s implementation of Islandora as a unified digital repository platform for managing and accessing diverse digital assets, such as special collections and research data. Built on a Drupal 10 framework and a microservices architecture, their solution utilizes a rich ecosystem for digital content management and features innovative tools such as OpenAI Whisper for automatic transcription of AV files.
Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in recognizing research software as a first-class scholarly product within the scholarly ecosystem—spanning repositories and registries, publishers and citation indexers, persistent identifiers, and research-performing organizations and career paths. Yet, software still remains widely under-recognized. “The Role of Research Software and Addressing Its Challenges” summarizes the progress and offers insights for organizations seeking to better recognize and support research software outputs.
We thank the presenters for sharing their work with our community. Please contact them directly with questions or for further discussion.