CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Yale’s digital images, open research ID, data reuse

May 20, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID,  selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse.  Cliff also shared some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.

Listen to the May 20, 2011 CNI Conversations

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Crowdsourcing & Data; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation

In this 13 minute podcast, recorded June 1, 2011, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium on crowdsourcing and scientific data quality presented by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information on June 13, 2011 in Washington, DC. Cliff also discusses “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation,” a meeting which took place at The National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia, on May 23-25, 2011.

Listen to the June 1 CNI Conversations: http://wp.me/pGewu-44

New CNI Conversations: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collections, ORCID, and More

In this 18 minute podcast, recorded May 20, 2011, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID, selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse. Cliff also shares some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.

CNI Conversations is available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).  We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, Self-Destructing Ebooks, More

The March 15, 2011 podcast of CNI Conversations includes discussion on a wide variety of topics by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, including:

*a report on peer review from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)

*the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive

*Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence

*auto-destructing ebooks

*the Digital Public Library of America

CNI Conversations continues to be available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).  We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback.  For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Preview, CNI Spring Mtg; Ebook session by Cliff Lynch just added

The latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://conversations.cni.org/) provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting by Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings. Cliff also talks about his newly-added session E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later, in which he will look back at his 2001 article “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6), consider what he got right and what he got wrong ten years ago, and, more importantly, discuss unexpected developments and the current state of play in both scholarly and mass-market publishing.

CNI’s spring membership meeting will be held in San Diego, CA on April 4-5, 2011 – registration deadline is March 7. Visit http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring for details.

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