CNI is pleased to announce video of the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture "Computers, Plans, and Campfires," given by Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The talk was presented as the closing plenary of CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting, held in St. Louis, MO on March 31- April 1, 2014. Access the video directly from:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/H6upfk-NVDc or Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/cni/91946249

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the spring 2014 CNI meeting. To see all videos available from CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org

A Conversation About the Present and the Future of Technology, Knowledge and Culture, the opening plenary from CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting, with Bryan Alexander and Clifford Lynch, is now online:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/pN7F3PdK5nk Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/91578596

Bryan Alexander is Head, Bryan Alexander Consulting, and Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). He researches, writes, and speaks about emerging trends in the integration of inquiry, pedagogy, and technology and their potential application to liberal arts contexts. His current research interests include emerging pedagogical forms enabled by mobile technologies, learning processes and outcomes associated with immersive environments (as in gaming and augmented reality), the rise of digital humanities, the transformation of scholarly communication, digital storytelling, and futurist methodologies. Alexander is author of Future Trends in Technology and Education, a monthly report that surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies.

Presentation Materials Now Available Check project briefing pages at http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014/s14-project-briefings-breakout-sessions/ for slide decks and other presentation materials. Presenters who would like their materials posted should deposit them in the meeting Dropbox folder (instructions were sent previously), or send directly to sharon@cni.org.

Recent talks on stewardship at scale by CNI director Clifford Lynch are now available online:

Challenges of Stewardship at Scale in the Digital Age Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Distinguished Speaker Series, Jan. 30, 2014 http://youtu.be/rfvLlQ2nZj0 "Over the centuries, we have developed a very complex system for managing and preserving our intellectual and cultural record. This system is now under enormous strain and trying to respond and adapt to changes in how we communicate and the ways in which technology can represent various modes of communication. We are recognizing that, particularly for digital materials, much more active stewardship is required; this has given rise to a major focus on data curation in the scholarly world. In addition, many stewardship institutions are no longer economically sustainable or stable, and for a number of reasons we are entering an era where I believe transitions of stewardship responsibility from one organization to another will become increasingly commonplace. My talk will examine all of these developments in contexts that range from management of research data to art collections, and will consider social, economic and technological forces reshaping the landscape."

Keynote Address: Sharing and Preserving Scholarship: Challenges of Coherence and Scale CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) 2014 Annual Conference, March 10, 2014 http://cenic2014.cenic.org/stream/archives/ssu/Cenic_2014_Conference-Keynote_Address-640x360.mp4 "Scholarly practice in all disciplines — humanities, sciences, and social sciences — increasingly relies upon high performance computing, novel and advanced distributed sensor systems, high-speed networking and massive data resources. Our cultural and intellectual record broadly, not just the record of scholarship, is taking on new dimensions and characteristics and now exists largely in digital form; this record is essential evidence for future scholarship as well as a memory for our society. We are also seeing a series of societal changes that are placing a much greater emphasis on public access, transparency and reproducibility in these large scale records of scholarship and society. A central challenge facing the higher education, research and cultural memory sectors is how to develop the necessary strategies and supporting infrastructure to deal with these demands effectively, affordably, and at the requisite scale. In my presentation, I will explore the specifics of these challenges and briefly outline some of the responses that are emerging."

I wanted to share the announcement of this new report from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) addressing payoffs from data curation and data sharing with the CNI community. It has already generated some lively discussion on more specialized lists, but because of its synthesizing nature and focus on specific benefits, I thought that it would be of broad interest, and many readers of this list might not have heard about it yet.

Beagrie, N. and Houghton J.W. (2014) The Value and Impact of Data Sharing and Curation: A synthesis of three recent studies of UK research data centres, Jisc. PDF (24 pages)

I have reproduced the more detailed announcement below.

Clifford Lynch Director CNI

At the CNI Spring Member Meeting earlier this week, Karen Smith-Yoshimura from OCLC and Micah Altman from MIT gave a wonderful presentation of the work of the OCLC Registering Researchers Task Group (see http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/registering-researchers.html ). We should have the materials from their talk available soon, along with other sessions from the Spring meeting.

As part of this presentation, Karen drew attention to a very recently released draft report for comment from this group, which I wanted to highlight for the CNI community, since it is integral to the issues involved in the CNI focus on network-based factual biography. The direct URL for the report is

see also

One of the questions that comes up repeatedly is about the genuinely new applications that very high speed (eg gigabit) networks can enable, as opposed to the role of these networks in just aggregating large numbers of much slower individual connections. Not only is this a critical issue in networking within the research and education community, but the question is at the heart of many policy discussions about broadband to the home (and what constitutes sufficiently broadband connectivity). It is also linked to closely to some of the questions that the American Library Association has explored about the need for high-speed connections supporting public libraries.

This recent blog post on the very helpful computing community consortium offers a very interesting list of some example applications:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The schedule for CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting has been posted: www.cni.org/go/cni-spring-2014-schedule

Also posted recently to the meeting website (www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014): Project briefing abstracts Complete schedule of events for download (PDF)

We will be posting meeting updates from the CNI Twitter account (twitter.com/cni_org) using the hashtag #cni14s and we encourage other twitterers to do the same. The meeting opens next Monday, March 31, and will be held at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

From our colleague at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI):

Greetings, just writing with a quick reminder that there is still time to register for the ELI online focus session on faculty development (April 1-3, noon to 3:30 ET each day). http://www.educause.edu/events/online-spring-focus-session-faculty-engagement-and-development

To develop the focus session, the ELI reviewed nearly one hundred faculty development practices from nearly as many institutions. The Focus Session will present the best practices across those institutions. We are targeting the topic of faculty development throughout 2014, as we feel it is pivotal to the institution’s moving forward in its teaching and learning mission.

We realize it’s difficult to reserve that much time in a week. Mindful of that, we will be recording every session and these recordings will be available to all registrants immediately after the Focus Session concludes. Hence no matter what your schedule might be, you won’t have to miss a thing!

Our colleagues at NISO invite CNI members to comment on this draft.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

NISO Releases Recommended Practice on Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs for Public Comment

A new, comprehensive resource on ETDs is now available. CNI's Joan Lippincott served as a reviewer on the project. A link to the document is included in the announcement below.

The ETD Lifecycle Management project is pleased to make available the Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. The full suite of Guidance Documents is freely available from Educopia Publishing (http://www.educopia.org/publishing/gdlmetd) and can also be obtained from the Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations - NDLTD website (http://www.ndltd.org/resources/manage-etds).

About the ETD Guidance Documents Written by ETD program experts from several established and well-respected academic institutions (see below), the Guidance Documents are geared towards the full range of stakeholders in ETD programs from administrators to graduate schools to librarians to vendors. The Guidance Documents cover a range of curation topics that span the lifecycle for ETDs. • Guidelines for Implementing ETD Programs – Roles & Responsibilities • Guide to Access Levels and Embargoes of ETDs • Briefing on Copyright and Fair Use Issues in ETDs • Guidelines for Collecting Usage Metrics and Demonstrations of Value for ETD Programs • Managing the Lifecycle of ETDs: Curatorial Decisions and Practices • Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management • Guide to ETD Program Planning and Cost Estimation • Guide to Options for ETD Programs

Today, the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a directive to federal agencies that own or support scientific collections calling for improved management and access to these collections.

The announcement is at

and the directive itself is at

A Guide to the Spring 2014 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2014 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri on March 31 and April 1, 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, March 31. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 1, 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, March 31, after which participants can enjoy a free 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, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting. Information about wireless access in the meeting room areas will be available in your packets or at the registration table.

Over the past two years, I have had the opportunity to co-chair, along with Professor of Mathematics Ingrid Daubechies from Duke University, a US National Research Council Committee that has been exploring the possibilities for building a global digital library to support mathematical research. The Alfred P. Sloan foundation commissioned the study form the National Academies.

A preprint version of the report is now available for free download from the NAS web site, at

Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research | The National Academies Press

Like most areas of scholarship, mathematics is a cumulative discipline: new research is reliant on well-organized and well-curated literature. Because of...

There is also a brief abstract of the report (under the "overview" tab) and a short pdf summary of the report's major findings (under the "related resources") tab.

Materials from the International Digital Curation Conference held in February 2014 in San Francisco are now available online. You can find the presentations at

and there is a collection of videos at

Another great line-up of speakers for the next LSC (Learning Spaces Collaboratory) webinar. -- Joan Lippincott

We invite you to join the LSC Guide Webinar III: Large Enrollment Classrooms (Planning for Teaching at Scale) http://www.pkallsc.org/events/lsc-guide%E2%80%94webinar-iii-exploring-lecture-spaces on Tuesday, March 25 at 3:30 p.m. EDT. · What are effective approaches for the physical design of spaces to enhance engaged learning in large enrollment courses? How do you plan for teaching at scale? · How are spaces for large enrollment classes now being imagined, designed and constructed? · Are there limits of “scale” for teaching classes with research-based pedagogical approaches? · What steps can be taken to help faculty to overcome the challenges for teaching and learning in tiered lecture halls, in large enrollment classrooms? These and other questions will be explored by facilitators (3:30 - 4:30 p.m.) ; opportunity for questions from participants follow the presentation by facilitators (4:30 - 5:00 p.m.)

Facilitators:

Posting on behalf of our colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. --Joan Lippincott

DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle

May 11-16, 2014 & January 5-6, 2015 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CNI is pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for this important event.

Archiving 2014 Preliminary Program Released

May 13-16 Berlin, Germany

All videos of project briefings from CNI's December 2013 meeting have been posted and are available from CNI's YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni) channels. Most recently released recordings include:

Mobile Technologies to Support Field Research, Wayne Johnston (U. of Guelph) http://youtu.be/x00-3vd3nwc

Accuracy in Web Analytics Reporting on Digital Libraries, Kenning Arlitsch & Patrick OBrien (Montana State U.), Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) http://youtu.be/vmFSRZUZwB8

Creating a Data Interchange Standard for Researchers, Research, and Research Resources: VIVO-ISF, Dean B. Krafft & Brian Lowe (Cornell) http://youtu.be/s4WamVOmdhk

A preliminary title/speaker list of project briefings to be presented at CNI's spring meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014/s14-project-briefings-breakout-sessions/

Details are subject to change.

The meeting will be held March 31-April 1 in St. Louis, MO, at The Ritz-Carlton.

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org

Posting on behalf of our colleagues at U. San Diego, the program is now available for this timely symposium. -Joan Lippincott, CNI

Digital Initiatives Symposium Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego

Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for a day-long event focused on the digital elements of library ecosystems and institutional repositories as well as a bepress Digital Commons user group meeting.