Registration closes on November 8. Please register by then! Note that the meeting schedule and session list are now available on our website.

The CNI Fall 2018 Membership Meeting schedule is now available at Sched.com: https://cnifall2018membershipmeeting.sched.com/

For this year’s fall membership meeting, we will once again be using Sched, our mobile meeting solution, to better anticipate room size needs. We have worked to finalize the program earlier than usual this year to give attendees extra time for planning meeting schedules; abstracts will be added soon. 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 can plan room assignments accordingly. 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.

I want to (belatedly) draw your attention to this request for public comment on proposed provisions of a data management and sharing policy for NIH funded or supported research. Comments are open until December 10. Note there is a webinar (registration link is on the page below that describes the call in more detail) on November 7.

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Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share the announcement of this excellent meeting; I have attended a number of these in the past and found them to be very helpful.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The agenda and registration for the Mexico City Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting February 12-14, 2019 is at http://pasig2019.colmex.mx. The two tier Early Bird registration fee is either $150 or $50 depending upon your location. We have set out multiple agenda times for Lightning Talks since these have been popular in the past. We will notify the PASIG community at a later date about submitting Lightning Talk topics prior to the conference, though we will also have ad hoc submissions at the conference. The event will have bi-lingual translation.

A new article by Clifford Lynch, "Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era," is now available in EDUCAUSE Review 53, no. 6 (November/December 2018), and freely available for download:

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/10/managing-the-cultural-record-in-the-information-warfare-era

In this recent piece, Lynch considers how technological developments will impact scholarly practice and information literacy in the coming decade.

Ithaka S+R has just issued a very useful report "The State of Digital Preservation 2018: A Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps" which was developed based on a series of interviews with leaders in the field and authored by Oya Rieger, who is well know to the CNI community. The report can be found at

The State of Digital Preservation in 2018 - Ithaka S+R

Our cultural, historic, and scientific heritage is increasingly being produced and shared in digital forms. The ubiquity, pervasiveness, variability, and fluidity of such content raise a range of questions about the role of research libraries and archives in digital preservation in the face of rapid organizational and technological changes and evolving organizational priorities. Ithaka S+R is interested in exploring the current landscape of digital preservation programs and services in order to ...

and that page also includes an option to download a PDF version of the report.

There will be a presentation and discussion of this work at the upcoming December 2018 CNI Membership meeting in Washington DC.

There's video available from the sessions at the September 27-29, 2018 Conference "The Past, Present and Future of Libraries" held at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia which may be of interest to the CNI community. (Unfortunately, I could not attend this conference due to schedule conflicts).

Some general information on the conference is at

Past, Present, and Future of Libraries Conference Video Online — Association of Research Libraries

In commemoration of the American Philosophical Society’s 275th anniversary, the society’s library hosted an interdisciplinary conference that explored the history of libraries, the present opportunities for libraries, and the potential future for libraries as they continue to evolve in the 21st century. “The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries” conference took place September 27–29, 2018, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An overarching theme that surfaced during the conference was the relations...

and the videos are at

Registration is now open for the 14th International Digital Curation Conference, "Collaborations and Partnerships: Addressing the Big Digital Challenges Together", to be held at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia. Early bird rates are available. CNI is very proud to have been a supporting organization for this excellent conference since its inception.

IDCC is a leading conference on digital curation and Research Data Management, regularly attracting around 250 delegates from all over the world.

The main theme of the conference will be collaborations and partnerships in the field of digital curation and preservation. How do they develop and evolve across the professional, disciplinary, institutional, regional, national, and international levels? And how are such collaborations supporting the advancement of digital curation and preservation practices?

The main conference programme will take place on the 5th and 6th of February and will include keynote lectures by Christine Kenneally and Patricia Brennan, and a live conversation between myself and Nancy McGovern. Workshops will be held on the 4th of February. A new addition to the programme will be the IDCC Unconference, to be held on the 7th of February, an event driven by delegates, on topics of their choice.

In an expansive interview, Thomas Hickerson, formerly Vice Provost and University Librarian at the University of Calgary, discusses the planning of the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL), the rationale for choices made to enable the library to keep up with a changing environment, and the way that the library is working with researchers today. He also provides some insights into how his work as an archivist and Special Collections librarian at Cornell informed the acquisition of some major archives at the TFDL. The TFDL is one of the libraries that has set the standards for how we think about library spaces, technologies, programs, collections, and expertise today.

It was a pleasure for me to conduct this interview of Tom at the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference VII at the University of Calgary in September. I encourage you to view the video of the interview, now available at: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/297184427 YouTube: https://youtu.be/f1MKHwNZl_8

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 joan@cni.org www.cni.org

CNI's Clifford Lynch will present a Community Update on Wednesday, Oct. 31st, to discuss CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will begin at 3:30 PM in Mile High Ballroom 1E/F, Ballroom Level. This session is an opportunity for individuals who do not regularly attend CNI membership meetings (such as non-member-representatives from member organizations and others interested in CNI’s work) to hear about our latest activities.

Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference

Diane Goldenberg-Hart

Save the Date

I’m very pleased to announce that Northeastern University Library will host the next Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop in Boston on March 25-6, 2019. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are the co-sponsors. This will be the third in the series of these workshops, intended for those planning programs and facilities to support digital scholarship in their institutions. We’ll announce registration and program information here and you can also check the workshop website for information as it become available https://dsg.northeastern.edu/cni_workshop

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0886 (Fax) joan@cni.org www.cni.org

The structural problem of appropriately funding mid-scale infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure for the disciplines supported by the US National Science Foundation has been a long-recognized challenge that has become increasingly severe as these disciplines continue to integrate advanced networking, computing, large scale storage and related technologies into routine scholarly practice. "Mid-scale" in the NSF context refers to investments in the tens of millions (as opposed to "major research equipment and facilities", which covers very large scale projects).

The National Science Board has recently released a report that looks at this problem and makes some important recommendations. It specifically addresses cyberinfrastructure as well as more traditional research infrastructure. The report, titled "Bridging the Gap: Building a Sustained Approach to Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure and Cyberinfrastructure", can be found at

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2018/NSB-2018-40-Midscale-Research-Infrastructure-Report-to-Congress-Oct2018.pdf

There is a press release with some summary and background to the report at

Alison Head, founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL) and also a plenary speaker at the CNI Spring 2017 meeting, has announced the availability of the latest report from the project: “How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for Educators, Journalists, and Librarians.” Co-authored with John Wihbey, P. Takis Metaxas, Margy MacMillan, and Dan Cohen, the news study analyzed data from a survey, interviews, and a computational analysis of Twitter data. This is a very timely topic and should be of interest to many in the CNI community. The report is available at: http://www.projectinfolit.org/news_study.html

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

You’re invited to participate in this survey by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)! —Joan Lippincott, CNI ———————————————

The ELI is pleased to announce the release of the 2019 Key Issues survey. As always, we invite everyone associated with the post-secondary mission of teaching and learning (T&L) to participate, so that the results are truly representative of the full community. This includes (but not limited to):

faculty students instructional and learning designers learning engineers librarians center for T&L staff academic and instructional technologists academic leaders, such as deans and provosts. administrators for innovation in T&L

The survey takes only 3 minutes to complete.

in March 2018 MIT hosted a series of meetings (one of which I was fortunate to be able to participate in) to develop an ambitious research agenda for scholarly communications. I want to stress the focus here was on research questions that could help to shape the future of scholarly communications, rather than an agenda for scholarly communications proper. The draft white paper emerging from these meetings is now available at

for public review and comment. I've reproduced a more detailed announcement below, which also contains information on how to propose changes to the document or otherwise provide comments and feedback. Note that if you want to comment, you can sign up for a PubPub account (see below) using the link in the upper right of the page containing the draft.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dates and location for Open Repositories 2020 have been set – details below. CNI has been a supporter of the OR events for many years.

Subject: Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020, 1-4 June in Stellenbosch, SA

Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020

Last week an important and welcome report on best practices in software preservation was released. This work has been in progress for some time, and is an important step in defining and clarifying good community practice in this often confusing area, particularly with regard to intellectual property. Similar processes have been used with considerable success to help other communities, such as documentary film makers, in recent years.

see

http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/2018.09.24_softwarepreservationcode.pdf

for the report, and there's some valuable context at

I wanted to share the following call for applications with the CNI-announce community, which I know includes many non-profit infrastructure providers for open science and open access that are struggling with sustainability issues.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Members of the Open Science Community,

You have doubtless seen press coverage of the new US, Mexico and Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) that is intended tor replace the existing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There are some significant changes in the intellectual property provisions in this agreement that haven't received much coverage in the general press, but our colleagues at the Association of Research Libraries have made a very helpful analysis available. This can be found at

What’s In (and Out) of the IP Chapter of the United States, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement — Association of Research Libraries

Yesterday, Canada announced—just in time for the self-imposed deadline by the negotiating parties of September 30— that it would join the trade agreement with the United States and Mexico. This...

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2018 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on December 10-11 in Washington, DC.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than this Friday, October 5. A limited number of proposals are accepted. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2018/project-briefing-proposals-f18

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is Thursday, November 8: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2018/registration-accommodations-f18

Follow this meeting on Twitter: #cni18f

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to participate in the work of a National Academies Committee advising NASA Earth and Space Sciences on Open Source policies and strategies for their scientific work. The report from this work was released a few days ago and can be found at

Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences

Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises from complex simulations of climate, space weather, and astronomical phenomena. At the same time, scientific work requires data processing, presentation, and analysis through broadly available proprietary and community software.1 Implicitly or explicitly, software is central to science. Scientific discovery, understanding, validation, and interpretation ...

Participating in this work was a fascinating experience, and a really important counter-balance to the narratives that say open source is the answer, and all related questions are simple. I think that this is an excellent report that honestly represents the complexities that we will encounter as we move to open science.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI