The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2016 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on December 12-13 in Washington, DC.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than next Monday, October 10. A limited number of proposals are accepted. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/project-briefing-proposals-f16

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is Thursday, November 10: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/registration-accommodations-f16

Follow this meeting on Twitter: #cni16f

Richard Poynder has just published an interview with Clifford Lynch in which they discuss the current state of the institutional repository, particularly in light of public access mandates by funders and the growth of the open access movement in general:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/q-with-cnis-clifford-lynch-time-to-re_22.html

I'm pleased to bring to your attention the next Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinar, which features two presenters from Georgia Tech, including one presenter from the library. Registration information is below. --Joan Lippincott CNI

Greetings:

Join us for a continuing conversation about how attention to spaces for learning becomes an integral part of institutional planning for the future: A Campus-wide “Space Matters” Culture. http://pkallsc.org/events/lsc-webinar-campus-wide-“space-matters”-culture

At the December 2015 Member Meeting in Washington DC, we held an two sessions of an Executive Roundtable looking at institutional strategies for compliance with new mandates dealing with research results (journal articles and datasets) supported by government funding. While the main focus was on developments in the United States, the roundtable included several perspectives from international participants. I'm happy to announce that the report of this roundtable is now available at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Fall 2016 CNI Membership Meeting on December 12-13 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton.

Project briefings are 30-minute, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information; the submission process is open to all. A limited number of project briefings are accepted.

A link to the online submission form is available here: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/project-briefing-proposals-f16

Submissions are due no later than Monday, October 10.

Privacy and appropriate use of student data has been a long standing concern at CNI. Over the summer, we issued the report of our 2015 Executive Roundtable addressing this topic (see https://www.cni.org/go/privacy-analytics-2016-cni-report ).

Relative to this, I wanted to make sure that readers of this list were aware of two important documents that came out today and were covered by the Chronicle for Higher Education (see "Group Unveils a 'Model Policy' for Handling Study Data", Goldie Blumenstyk, September 6, 2016, at http://www.chronicle.com/article/Group-Unveils-a-Model-Policy/237690 ). These are a report on a conference convened by Ithaca S+R and Stanford University in June 2016 and a series of related background documents.

The report is at:

Student Data in the Digital Era - Ithaka S+R

Newly available data are making it possible to understand, improve, and represent student learning and other outcomes in profoundly different ways. With

We are pleased to share this CfP for the annual meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium with the CNI community; closing date for submissions is October 20, 2016.

CURATION AND RESEARCH USE OF THE PAST WEB Lisbon 29-30 March 2017

Web archiving efforts have now been underway for over twenty years, generating an expanding core of data crucial for present and future explorations of human political, cultural, economic and social activity since the mid 1990s. Practices around both the creation and use of web archives are rapidly evolving. What technical, ethical, and institutional approaches are necessary to advance use of web archives for scholarship and other use cases? How are researchers using the archived web right now, and in which new directions is that research heading? What innovations, collaborations, and adaptations are necessary to sustain the efficacy of web archiving?

Members of the CNI community will be interested to learn about this interesting event having to do with scholarly research persistent identifiers.

Why build an open identifier infrastructure? So that anyone can use it to create cool tools and services for the research community.

Open identifiers deserve their own festival!

We’re delighted to invite you to register for PIDapalooza, a two-day festival for scholarly research persistent identifiers (PIDs) organized by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCiD.

I wanted to share this call for submissions with the CNI community. CNI is once again collaborating on this important international conference, scheduled to take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 20-23, 2017.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation in workflows for data science, scholarship and society

I wanted to share this announcement about scholarships for the the upcoming October 13-14,2016 conference Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News that is being held at UCLA. My understanding is that regular registration is still open as well. The conference web site is at:

I had the opportunity to participate in the first of this series of meetings, and found it very helpful. I am planning to attend this one as well, and look forward to seeing some CNI-announce readers there.

I know many cni-announce subscribers have registered for the Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinars in the past; they are high quality and engaging. Here is the fall line-up. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings.

We are pleased to announce the Fall 2016 LSC Webinar Series. These webinars continue discussions from the Spring 2016 Roundtables about questions to ask in the process of embedding attention to a particular facilities project in ongoing, institution-wide efforts toward transformative and sustainable change.

At the CNI Spring 2015 member meeting in Seattle, Washington, we hald an Executive Roundtable dealing with issues of Privacy in the Age of Analytics, focusing particularly on student privacy and reader privacy issues as large scale data collection, retention, reuse and analysis becomes more commonplace (and indeed apparent accepted best practice in some cases). The report from this discussion is now available at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share this announcement with the CNI community; I was fortunate to be able to participate in the Keepers Extra Project Meeting on June 6-7 2016 where the statement was drafted, and am a signatory and strong supporter of this call to action.

The Keepers Registery is a poorly-known but essential piece of the global infrastructure that supports the preservation of the scholarly record; we have had several presentations related to their work at recent CNI meetings which may be helpful in learning more about their work, most recently Peter Burnhill's talk at the Fall 2015 Member Meeting:

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Bucknell University is hosting a conference on digital scholarship; this is their 3rd conference focused on this topic and they have a very interesting program, featuring speakers from liberal arts colleges, universities, and other types of institutions. Please see below for details.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is now open for #BUDSC16, Bucknell University's third annual Digital Scholarship Conference. We're excited to see you on campus October 28-30. This year's conference will feature speakers with a range of interests and specializations, including faculty, librarians, students, and those with careers outside of the academy.

On April 3 and 4, 2016 we held two executive roundtables as part of the spring CNI member meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The topic of these conversations, which I found to be very interesting, was institutional strategies related to Open Educational Resources (OER). I'm pleased to announce that the report of these roundtables is now available at:

https://www.cni.org/go/oers16-cni-report

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Meg Young & Kristen Matteucci Receive Paul Evan Peters Fellowships

Washington, DC — The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of doctoral student Meg Young and master’s student Kristen Matteucci as the 2016 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in library and information sciences. The fellowship was established to honor the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters; it recognizes outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, a commitment to civic responsibility and democratic values, and imagination.

Meg Young is a PhD student at the University of Washington’s Information School; she holds a BA and a master of science in information from the University of Michigan. Young was selected for the Peters Fellowship, in part, for her research focusing on data privacy in municipal government, in which she poses a fundamental question: How can we make sure that residents’ privacy interests are protected in commercial uses? To that end, Young examines data privacy practices within the context of open data programs enacted by many cities, examining how privacy concerns are accounted for in the design and execution of these programs. Describing her as an “exceptionally bright doctoral researcher,” University of Washington professor Jan Whittington, who recommended Young for the award, wrote that her “intellectual curiosity is truly remarkable… Moreover, her positive attitude and dedication to the betterment of democratic engagement with digital technologies are infectious.”

This year’s recipient of the master’s level fellowship, Kristen Matteucci, is a student in the Master of Information program at Rutgers University, with a focus on community outreach and engagement as they relate to library and information services. Long an advocate for victims of domestic violence, Matteucci is interested in helping achieve equitable access to information, particularly for people considered to be disempowered or information poor. Matteucci has worked for several years with the nonprofit agency Women Against Abuse (WAA); in recommending her for the fellowship, Elise Scioscia, WAA director of public policy commented, “Kristen is very future-focused when it comes to the information sciences field—she is constantly reflecting on how information and technology can be used as a social change agent.”

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

In May, CNI and ARL co-sponsored a workshop on Planning a Digital Scholarship Center. The report of that workshop is now available at https://www.cni.org/go/dscw16-report During the workshop, we had sessions on mission, staffing, facilities & technology, partnerships with faculty on research, teaching & learning, and other topics.

We have many additional resources related to digital scholarship centers, including institutional responses to the pre-workshop assignment, readings, and links to the workshop presentations at http://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/dscw16

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers: You'll find below a nice opportunity to get up to speed with standards issues and how to include them in the curriculum. This workshop to be held in Boston, requires registration but does not have a fee. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

September 8-9, 2016 in Boston NIST Industry-Academic Workshop: Standards and the Digital Economy – Implications for Teaching and Policy

Management, engineering, economics, law and policy courses covering the Digital Economy often miss an essential strategic and competitive element - emerging interoperability standards.

In June and July 2016 the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) conducted a brief e-mail survey of its college and university members on authentication and authorization practices related to sharing user information with library-licensed external content providers (publishers, platform providers and aggregators). The survey was sent to member representatives at some 188 institutions representing both the library and information technology organizations. We asked about both technical and contractual approaches to the control and management of this data. We wanted to ascertain the extent to which information about individual users of licensed content was being passed to content providers, and if so, what measures were being taken to control this data, to determine the extent to which privacy concerns in this area were or were not being addressed by higher education institutions.

The results of the survey are now available here:

I would be happy to answer any questions about this report.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I want to alert you that as of today, the Designing Libraries V conference, hosted by the University of Calgary and co-sponsored by North Carolina State University and CNI has reached capacity for registration and has begun a waiting list. If you have not registered and wish to attend, you can request that your name be added to the waiting list. Please contact conference@ucalgary.ca or check the website at http://designinglibraries.ucalgary.ca/

--Joan Lippincott, CNI