Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:
-Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2016, Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka S+R)
In fall 2016, Ithaka S+R surveyed academic library deans and directors across the US on key topics including how library leaders are investing in the future of their organizations, and what kinds of strategies they are pursuing in support of research, teaching, and learning. With a response rate of 49%, the project offers a wide array of perspectives on the opportunities and challenges currently facing academic libraries and higher education more broadly. The full report was released in conjunction with CNI’s spring 2017 meeting, and the results are discussed in this presentation.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2LcJwWzr6NM
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/214693918
–Data Integrity for Librarians, Archivists, and Criminals: What We Can Steal from Bitcoin, BitTorrent, and Usenet, Jeffrey Spies (Center for Open Science)
Data integrity is important in distributed systems, and the same characteristics that make these systems robust make maintaining data integrity challenging. For this reason, hash functions play a central role in the algorithms and technologies that power Usenet, BitTorrent, and Bitcoin and its blockchain. This presentation introduces hashes and their variants, these distributed and sometimes dubious systems, and what can be learned and practically applied in today’s digital repositories for purposes of auditing, identifying, recovering, and sharing data.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/SRvAGFJO0yw
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/214694331
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