Linked data has been a very popular topic at recent CNI meetings. For those of you who wish to delve more deeply into the topic, please consider registering for this upcoming workshop in Toronto. -- Joan Lippincott, CNI

Colleagues:

I am very pleased to alert you to an upcoming Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage Workshop (LODLAM) May 12-13 in Toronto at Ryerson University and York University. There are a few spots left in the beginner track and a few more for the experienced track. We are very grateful to our sponsors Canadiana, Digital Library Federation, Our Digital World, Osgoode Hall Law School (York University), and University of Toronto for making this possible.

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) invites applicants for the

2016 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship https://www.cni.org/go/pep-fellowship Applications due no later than MAY 9, 2016

The Paul Evan Peters Fellowship was established to honor and perpetuate the memory of CNI's founding executive director. The fellowship is awarded every two years to students pursuing graduate studies in librarianship, the information sciences, or a closely related field, who demonstrates intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, including:

--commitment to use of digital information and advanced technology to enhance scholarship, intellectual productivity and public life;

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Jisc and CNI have been collaborating on conference programs in the UK, usually held every other year. We have an upcoming conference in Oxford, where we will explore a range of issues related to developments in digital scholarship. The details for registering and for the program are now live on the conference website. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

I am delighted to invite you to the Jisc and CNI Conference 2016: International advances in digital scholarship, 5-6 July at Wadham College, Oxford.

The 3d annual digital scholarship conference to be held at Bucknell University, has just issued a call for proposals. The topics, listed below should elicit some interesting proposals from CNI member institutions and others. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

BUDSC16: Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference on October 28-30, 2016. The theme of the conference is “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.”

Meeting Roadmap A Guide to the Spring 2016 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2016 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at The Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, on April 4 and 5, 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 for new attendees-both representatives of new member organizations and new representatives or alternate delegates from existing member organizations-at 11:30 AM; guests are also welcome. Refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, April 4. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 5, 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 4, after which participants can enjoy the San Antonio Riverwalk or other attractions.

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, www.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 an experimental deployment of a meeting app called Whova; information about this will be sent to each registrant by email, and will also be available at the meeting registration desk. And we'll still have printed programs available for all.

We are pleased to share the announcement below - registration is now open for the 2016 Library Assessment Conference. CNI's Joan Lippincott and Kim Duckett of Duke University will be co-facilitating a post-conference workshop on November 3rd: Library Spaces: Approaches to Needs Assessment and Post-Occupancy Assessment - you can register for workshops (for an additional fee) when you register for the conference.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

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Registration is now open for the 2016 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held October 31–November 2 in Arlington, Virginia. The preeminent conference in the field with more than 600 registrants, this biennial gathering supports and advances the growing library assessment community through formal presentations, workshops, and informal engagement. This sixth Library Assessment Conference is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Washington (UW) Libraries.

We have got two fantastic plenary sessions lined up for the fast-approaching CNI Spring Member Meeting in San Antonion Texas next month, and I wanted to share some of the details with you. Both are tied very closely to the ongoing programmatic interests of CNI and its members.

You can find additional links, biography and full speaker-provided abstracts at the link below; here I offer a little bit of contextual framing for these presentations.

CNI Spring 2016: Plenary Sessions

CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting April 4-5, 2016 San Antonio, TX Opening Plenary | Closing Plenary   OPENING PLENARY Monday — 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Defining the Scholarly Record for C…

The University of Notre Dame is hosting a workshop on Container Strategies for Data and Software Presevation. The call for participation (including lightning talks) is at:

Here's a bit more detail:

The NSF-funded Data and Software Preservation for Open Science (DASPOS, daspos.org) project is hosting a workshop on Container Strategies for Data & Software Preservation that Promote Open Science at the University of Notre Dame. This two-day linux container centric workshop will feature keynote speakers, lightning talks, demonstrations, and hands-on breakouts related to container strategies for software and data preservation that promote open science, science reproducibility and re-use.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

This conference, offered by the University of San Diego Copley Library, offers a great line up of speakers on a range of digital content topics. Registration information is below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

2016 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium

On March 22 and 23 the Library of Congress will be hosting a free conference titled "The International Symposium on Science of Science".

For full information see

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Computing Community Consortium has recently released a very nice white paper titled "Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda" which looks at a research agenda for computer and information scientists aimed at enhancing scientific discovery through advanced tools. The paper raises some very important issues about the shape and structure of the future scholarly record, and about the importance of computational access to this record.

See

for a little background and a pointer to the paper; a direct link to the white paper is

A report has recently been issued on the results of a survey by the European University Information Systems Organization and euroCRIS on information systems (particularly Current Research Information Systems, or CRISs, and Institutional Repositories) supporting research. See

for background and a link to the report.

My thanks to Kathleen Shearer at COAR for the pointer to this work.

There's a one-day conference taking place at the University of California, Santa Cruz on April 1, 2016 exploring three-dimensional modeling technologies in archaeology.

For details and registration see

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Our friends at the Knowledge Exchange have just published a report from an October 1-2, 2015 Workshop on Software Sustainability that will be of interest to some CNI-announce readers.

See

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I have worked with the M-Libraries conference since its inception - as a speaker and member of the program committee - and can highly recommend it for a high quality program. See details below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

We are delighted to announce that early-bird registration is now open for the Sixth International m-Libraries conference, entitled 'm-Libraries: smart libraries: re-inventing libraries for a changing world' to be held at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK on the 16th to 18th May 2016.

The registration deadline for the Spring 2016 CNI membership meeting is next THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Thursday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting website at:

CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting

CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting April 4-5, 2016 San Antonio, Texas The Westin Riverwalk Recently Added: Videos: New and Evolving Services for Scholarship Linked Data Implementations-Who, What an…

If you have questions about registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at the Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX on April 4-5.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Shapiro Design Lab (SDL) is a new creative learning environment at the University of Michigan Library enabling efforts to bridge disciplines, build networks, and discover new contexts for scholarship. Laurie Alexander and Justin Schell discuss how the new space encourages a culture of engaged, connected learning and knowledge creation in Design Labs at the Intersection of Engaged Learning and Digital Scholarship: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/156575644 YouTube: https://youtu.be/sMxOHGxqpSc

In the United Kingdom (UK) there are funder mandates for universities to take full responsibility for their research data. In Establishing a Shared Research Data Service in the UK: How We’re Doing It. What About You?, Rachel Bruce describes the shared solutions Jisc is putting in place to help manage universities manage this responsibility, including the establishment of a shared research data management service that can help to meet the core requirements using core systems: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/156313024 YouTube: https://youtu.be/CIt5v3A-es4

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

-Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies https://vimeo.com/152610618 -Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Research, and Research Management in Libraries https://youtu.be/L0G9JsPMEXY -Hydra-in-a-Box: Building and Bundling a National Digital Platform https://youtu.be/_YWnzuuypQ4 -The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices (Sanderson) https://youtu.be/2-U-Qd37WgE -New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight (Snydman) https://youtu.be/5HI913kE2dk -Experiences with High Resolution Display Walls in Academic Libraries (Brosz, Ashleigh, Boyer) https://vimeo.com/151911867 -Linked Data for Libraries and Archives: LD4L and Europeana (Kraft, Cramer, Blair) https://vimeo.com/151818388 -Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape (Visconti, Purdue) https://vimeo.com/151657119 -Big Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks (Tijerina and Keller, Data & Society Research Institute) https://vimeo.com/151672242 -The Archaeology of Infrastructure (Choudhury, Johns Hopkins; Geraerts, University College London) https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission (Sallans, COS; Meyers, Notre Dame) https://vimeo.com/149889116 -Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World (Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151 -Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship (Van de Compel, Nelson) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722 -Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation (Clifford Lynch, CNI) https://vimeo.com/149331593 -Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project (Smith, Anderson) https://vimeo.com/149410915 -How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version (Farb, Grappone, Broadwell, Klein) https://vimeo.com/149666124

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

The NCSU Libraries have just announced this intensive, week-long Data and Visualization Institute, with the first offering in May, 2016. It is an excellent opportunity for libraries that want to develop the expertise of staff so that they can work with faculty and students on the data generated from their research and assist them with developing useful visualizations for their projects. Applications for the institute will be accepted until March 13, 2016.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration now open for Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians at the NCSU Libraries This week-long course–a visualization immersion–will feature interactive sessions with expert instructors.

For CNI-announce readers in the Bay Area, Brewster Kahle will be giving two featured lectures next week. These should be fabulous. I don't know whether these will be streamed.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Right to Remember

Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive

I wanted to share the announcement of a recent report on the contributions and value of the European Bioinformatics Institute. (EMBL-EBI). This is a very unusual contribution to the literature, attempting to estimate economic and scholarly impact of investment in large-scale scientific infrasctructure that offers a trove of freely accessible information globally.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

In 2015, Charles Beagrie Ltd was commissioned by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), to study and analyse its economic and social impact.