The report from the December 2018 CNI Executive Roundtable, "Supporting the Many Needs of Our Itinerant Researchers", is now available at the CNI web site. The conversation documented here covered a wide range of both policy and technical issues and should be of broad interest.

A direct link to the report is at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share this conference announcement. I attended the first two meetings, which I found very valuable; I cannot be at this one due to other schedule conflicts.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Yale Peabody Museum in collaboration with iDigBio, the Natural Sciences Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America is pleased to update our announcement of the third annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference, to be held 10-12 June 2019 at Yale University, New Haven, CT.

In early November 2018 I was fortunate to be able to keynote an excellent meeting in Montreal focusing on developments in digital preservation strategy across Canada. The report from this meeting is now available at:

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AtRN2_report_EN.pdf

or in French at

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AtRN2_rapport_FR.pdf

Meeting Roadmap A Guide to the Spring 2019 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2019 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, MO on April 8-9, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the customary "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in networked information.

As usual, the CNI meeting proper is preceded by an optional orientation session at 11:30 AM for new attendees, both representatives of new member organizations and new representatives or alternate delegates from existing member organizations, and guests and presenters are also welcome; beforehand, starting at 11, there will be coffee and an opportunity to meet some long-time members. Refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, April 8. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by four rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 9, includes additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch, and the closing keynote, concluding around 3:30 PM. Along with plenary and breakout sessions, the meeting includes generous break time for informal networking with colleagues and a reception which will run until 7:15 PM on the evening of Monday, April 8, after which participants can enjoy an evening in St. Louis.

The CNI meeting agenda is subject to last minute changes, particularly in the breakout sessions, and you can find the most current information on our website, cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting. Information about wireless access in the meeting room areas is available in your packets and at the registration table. In addition, we are running the mobile-friendly web app Sched to facilitate online access to the meeting schedule; Sched is available from the meeting website (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019), and we’ll still have printed programs available for those that want them.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is hosting a very interesting conference on the role of Artificial Intelligence in Data Discovery and Reuse; I had mentioned this before on CNI-announce but wanted to note that the preliminary program is now available. Early bird registration has passed, but I believe that regular registration remains open.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

AIDR 2019: Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse @ Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The CNI Spring 2019 Membership Meeting schedule is now online. We invite you to explore the program on the meeting website: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019/schedule-s19 or at Sched.com : https://cnispring2019membershipmeeting.sched.com/

Recently we have used Sched, our mobile meeting solution, to better anticipate room size needs. If you would like to use Sched to build a custom agenda, we ask that you consider adding sessions you plan to attend to your Sched agenda soon so that we may have some idea of the expected crowds for each session and make any necessary adjustments to room assignments. Sched allows conference organizers to monitor session interest by revealing how many attendees have added any given breakout to their personalized schedules - by selecting your sessions of interest early, we hope to better accommodate your needs.

Please note: You are not required to have an account with Sched in order to view the program information; a Sched account is necessary ONLY if you wish to use some of the features, including building a custom agenda. A Sched account is entirely optional. We hope you will find it to be a convenient and useful resource as you plan for the meeting and explore the program.

We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!

This report has just come out from our colleagues at JISC in the UK, addressing one of the fundamental problems in research data management.

Read the blog here: https://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2019/03/07/research-data-to-keep-or-not-to-keep/

or access the full report directly from here:

Here’s an opportunity to provide comments on a topic of interest - web privacy and web analytics. Please follow the links to the resources below and consider providing some input to the project team. In addition, those attending the Spring CNI meeting in St. Louis will have an opportunity to attend a session on this project and provide input in person.

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

The IMLS-funded National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics project team is excited to share an update. Last fall we hosted an event at Montana State University that brought together 40 librarians, technologists, and privacy researchers with the goal of producing a practical roadmap for enhancing our analytics practice in support of privacy. Today, we’re sharing the in-draft documents that represent the results of this community Forum.

We've created an Action Handbook that provides resources and best practices to guide libraries in responsibly implementing web analytics. We're also sharing 8 Pathways to Action, which are community initiatives for achieving better analytics practices that supports user privacy. All documents are available for public comment via our project website: http://www.lib.montana.edu/privacy-forum .

Registration is now open for for Archiving 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal, May 14-17; the early registration deadline is April 15.

CNI is pleased to serve again this year as a supporter of this important event, focusing on the digitization, preservation, and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

We invite you to join us in Lisbon, Portugal at the Torre do Tombo National Archive (National Archives of Portugal) for Archiving 2019 to discuss the most pressing issues in the cultural heritage landscape related to the digital preservation of and access to 2D, 3D, and AV materials.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

A few places remain for registrants in the CNI/ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop. The deadline is March 14, 2019. Please see below for additional information on the workshop. Joan Lippincott, CNI

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are pleased to announce that registration is open for the next Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop, co-sponsored and hosted by Northeastern University on March 25-26, 2019 on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, MA.

The registration deadline for the Spring 2019 CNI membership meeting is TOMORROW, MARCH 5th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by tomorrow. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting website at:

CNI Spring 2019 Membership Meeting

CNI Spring 2019 Member Meeting April 8-9, 2019 St. Louis, Missouri | The Ritz-Carlton #cni19s Meeting Related Materials: Videos & Slides Available slide decks have been added to individual Proj…

If you have questions about registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri on April 8-9.

We look forward to seeing you there!

All materials from CNI’s Fall 2018 Membership Meeting are now available from the meeting website (https://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2018 ), including these recently released interviews from the meeting, courtesy of EDUCAUSE:

David S. H. Rosenthal: Blockchain: What’s Not to Like? https://soundcloud.com/educause/cni-podcast-blockchain-whats-not-to-like Kenning Arlitsch and Scott W.H. Young: Do Academic Libraries Protect Privacy in the Digital Age? https://soundcloud.com/educause/cni-library-privacyfinal Micaela Parker: The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments https://soundcloud.com/educause/the-moore-sloan-data-science-environments Nathan Hall and Jamie Wittenberg: Developing a Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality https://soundcloud.com/educause/cni-podcast-developing-a-library-strategy-for-3d-and-virtual-reality Roger Schonfeld: The State of Digital Preservation https://soundcloud.com/educause/cni-podcast-the-state-of-digital-preservation

Following on a session at the December 2018 CNI meeting, the University of Oklahoma now has available a registry, called PAIR (Projects in Artificial Intelligence Registry). This is at

ai4lam

It's intended to allow libraries and related organizations to share information about their machine learning or other AI projects, and to encourage collaboration. For more information, you can contact the Dean (Interim) there, Carl Grant, carl.grant@ou.edu.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The summary of the discussions from this invitational roundtable, which followed the CNI/JISC meeting in July 2018 in Oxford, England is now available. It can be found at

https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/JR0096_CNI_ROUNDTABLE_REPORT_JAN2019_USLETTER_v1.pdf

Note that this is identical in content to the version that is available at JISC, at

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7203/1/JR0096_CNI_ROUNDTABLE_REPORT_JAN2019_v4.pdf

The 2020 International Digital Curation Conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland February 17-20, 2020. This will be the 15th of these major international conferences on digital curation; CNI has been a collaborating organization since the beginning. The 2019 conference was just recently held in Melbourne, Australia and I thought it was exceptional; materials are now linked to the conference agenda at

I'll put out additional information on the 2020 Conference here when it's available (probably not for a while) but I wanted to get a hold the date message out.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm delighted to announce the plenary speakers for the upcoming CNI meeting.

Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Michigan State University will open the meeting. She will be speaking on "Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity and the Common Good", drawing on her newly-published book Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.

Professor Michael Nelson of Old Dominion University will close the meeting with his talk "Web Archives at the Nexus of Good Fakes and Flawed Originals", which will explore the current perhaps surprisingly fragile state of web archives and prospects for the future.

Both of these should be wonderful presentations, and I'm deeply grateful to Kathleen and Michael for joining us. You can find full information about these presentations on the CNI web site, at

With this post, all videos from CNI’s fall 2018 membership meeting have now been made available on the meeting website (https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2018 ) and on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels:

Simplified Research Data Management with the Globus Platform Vas Vasiliadis, University of Chicago The University of Chicago develops and operates the Globus software-as-a-service for data management; the platform provides high-speed, reliable file transfer, data sharing, and data publication, as well as federated identity infrastructure that facilitates collaboration across diverse security domains and organizational boundaries. YouTube: https://youtu.be/OSOliHQuN7c Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/318520974

Planning a Community-Created Data Rescue Toolkit Mara Blake (Johns Hopkins University), Katie Mika (University of Colorado Boulder) Report on the IMLS-funded project “Building a Community-Created Data Rescue Toolkit,” that will provide a social and technical framework to connect individuals, groups, and organizations collaborating to identify, collect, describe, curate, preserve, and provide long-term access to federal, state, and local government data. YouTube: https://youtu.be/cH7-56ydZXk Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/318472513

The Shadow Acquisitions Budget: APCs and Open Access Publications at a Research University William H. Mischo & Thomas H. Teper (UIUC) This presentation reports the results of a quantitative assessment of one R1 institution’s publication levels in open access publishing venues. The authors examined over 27,000 journal articles contained in UIUC’s research profile system. YouTube: https://youtu.be/mqm7siVBGs4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/318471369

The CNI Spring 2019 Member Meeting hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, has SOLD OUT of conference-rate rooms - the Clayton Plaza Hotel, a 5 minute walk from the meeting venue, is offering a conference rate of $129.

Guests must make their reservations by 3/19/19 in order to receive the discounted rate.

Reserve accommodations online: CNI Overflow Room Block Clayton Plaza Hotel

Details available on the meeting website: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2019/registration-accommodations-s19

Each year EDUCAUSE Review announces its Top 10 IT issues and follows that up with a series of articles and interviews from various perspectives. Karen Wetzel of EDUCAUSE and I had the pleasure of interviewing 4 librarians about their thoughts on 3 of the top 10 issues: student-centered Institution, data management and governance, and privacy. Our thanks to the interviewees Kristin Antelman, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jon Cawthorne, Wayne State University, Jeff Steely, Georgia State University, and Peggy Seiden, Swarthmore College. You can follow the link in the image below or use this URL for the full text: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/2/library-perspectives-on-the-educause-2019-top-10-it-issues?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ER#_zs7W2Me1_zlRNcW5

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

Library Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues

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New videos from CNI’s December membership meeting have been posted:

Protecting Privacy on the Web: A Study of HTTPS and Google Analytics Implementation in Academic Library Websites Kenning Arlitsch & Scott W.H. Young (Montana State University) How well do academic libraries protect privacy in the digital age? This presentation reports the results of a study funded by IMLS and conducted by Montana State University and the University of New Mexico. YouTube: https://youtu.be/3UEO_eAGLfU Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/317066664

Hiding In Plain Sight: The Value of Machine-Processable Copyright Data John Mark Ockerbloom (U. Pennsylvania), Greg Cram (NYPL), Melissa Levine (U. Michigan) This presentation features discussions of projects that are publishing and using historic copyright data online, and show how making such data available in searchable, machine-processable, and linkable forms can enable libraries and other cultural institutions to legally use and share underused public domain and copyrighted literature and scholarship with greater confidence. YouTube: https://youtu.be/fN9Nm-fYHp4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/316899354

User Research: Can LOD Help Users Engage with and Make Better Use of Digitized Special Collections? Timothy W. Cole (UIUC), Katrina Fenlon (UMD College Park), Harriett Green (Washington U. St. Louis) This briefing looks at two case studies undertaken to better understand how users engage with digitized special collections to understand if the use of Linked Open Data (LOD) methods and models facilitate and/or encourage user engagement. YouTube: https://youtu.be/8bM6b_Ck7-0 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/316622338