A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's fall 2013 meeting is now available:

Hiberlink: Investigating Reference Rot in Web-Based Scholarly Communication Herbert Van de Sompel & Martin Klein, both of Los Alamos National Laboratory

A video of the presentation is now online at http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-curation/f13-sompel-hiberlink/ Session Description:

References in scholarly communication are traditionally to published articles or books. But today’s Web-based scholarly communication increasingly includes links to a wide range of resources that are needed or created in research activity such as software, data sets, websites, presentations, blogs, videos, scientific workflows, and ontologies. These resources often evolve over time, unlike traditional scholarly articles. Their dynamic nature poses a significant challenge for the consistency of the scholarly record: a link may no longer work or the referenced content may change from what it was originally.

The ARL Statistics and Measurement Program is offering a full-day, in-person workshop on Google Analytics, to be held on October 20, 2014, in partnership with LunaMetrics, a Google Analytics Certified Partner. Google Analytics is a tool that can help identify where website visitors are coming from and how they interact with web pages. Libraries can use this knowledge to improve their websites and overall user experience. Course Description

This workshop will focus on the following topics:

Web Analytics Basics—what can we measure? Google Analytics Overview—how it works, implementation and configuration issues, data quality, and privacy Google Analytics 101—tour of reports, metrics definitions, features, and functions Advanced Analysis—custom reports, advanced segments, site search reporting, content grouping, event tracking, and e-commerce tracking Key Metrics for Actionable Insights—library websites, digital libraries, OPACs Critical Google Analytics Configuration Steps—goal tracking, site search, campaign links, filters, and profiles

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I wanted to share two (relatively) recent reports dealing with various aspects of human subjects, personally identifiable data and research data management and reuse.

The first comes from the US National Research Council and is titled "Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences" and can be downloaded for free (or purchased in print) from

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences | The National Academies Press

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subjects pro...

This is a wide-ranging report that builds on an earlier (March 2013) Workshop report that I posted last year to CNI-announce; it deals, among many other things, with questions about when Instutional Review Boards should become involved in behavioral and social sciences research and to what extent; it also deals with issues about data reuse.

I wanted to share the announcement of a new report from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance on the PDF/A-3 file format specification that was released in late 2012. The PDF/A specifications are fairly widely used to define a "more preservable" subset of the hugely complex general PDF specification (A is for "archival"). The new "incremental" upgrade to PDF/A raises some very nasty issues for institutions relying on this specification in an archival context; at the very least, migration to this new version is going to take some careful consideration, and potentially some substantial expense and disruption. There's a helpful short overview on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog at:

New NDSA Report: The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions | The Signal

We’re lucky in the digital stewardship community that our challenges tend to be non life-threatening. Still, when we get fired up about something there is guaranteed to be spirited debate and passionate advocacy on all sides. Such was the case with the release of the PDF/A-3 file format specification in October 2012. We wrote about …

The full report is at

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_PDF_A3_report_final022014.pdf

The Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2014 Conference will take place on April 10-11 at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, IN. The conference program is now available from the meeting website at http://visions.indstate.edu/pda2014/#; registration closes April 1.

CNI is pleased to serve as a conference collaborator again this year.

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

A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's fall 2013 meeting is now available:

Internet Identity Update: From Social to Scholar Kenneth Klingenstein (Internet2)

This presentation provides an update on Internet identity and its interactions with the research and evaluation community. Several key developments are shared, including Social-to-SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) gateways, scholarly identity, federal initiatives such as National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), application categories such as research and scholarship, privacy managers, international collaboration platforms, and other topics of interest to the CNI community.

A video of the presentation is now online at http://www.cni.org/topics/identity-management/f13-klingenstein-internet/

I'm passing along this invitation on behalf of Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R. Hopefully, some of those coming to our spring member meeting in St. Louis will be able to take advantage of this opportunity. If you are interested, please be in touch with Roger directly as he describes below; this is a separate event from the CNI meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Ithaka S+R is hosting a workshop of 8-12 library leaders to consider evidence-based decision-making in academic and research libraries. The workshop has been scheduled in conjunction with the CNI meeting in St. Louis and will be held on Monday morning, March 31. Ithaka S+R is building on the findings from our forthcoming Library Survey of deans and directors, which contains extensive findings on leadership and strategy for the academic library, as a point of departure for this session.

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2014 Membership Meeting are due THIS FRIDAY Feb. 14. Proposals may be submitted via the online form:

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org).

The meeting will be held March 31-April 1, 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri. The Twitter hashtag for this meeting is #cni14s.

Some great upcoming webinars on learning spaces from LSC. A link to (fee) registration is below. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Please join the LSC community for webinars in the continuing series on The Ecosystem of Learning Spaces.

February and March webinars focus on classrooms (general assignment, general purpose). Each will:

A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's fall 2013 meeting is now available:

Library Brand Recognition: Generating Visibility in the Virtual Age Jeremy Frumkin (U. Arizona), Pascal Calarco (U. Waterloo), Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris)

The library is often an invisible facilitator to digital content - users have access to certain resources thanks to the library's mediation, but they are often unaware of the library's key procurement role. The University of Waterloo and Ex Libris are piloting a new approach that enables libraries to brand electronic information resources (articles) to which they broker access. The solution is based on research conducted at the University of Arizona and Oregon State University. This presentation describes the general context and need for libraries to better reflect their value to their users, the proposed solution and branding approach, and the current state of the pilot and initial findings from the University of Waterloo.

A video of the presentation is now online at http://www.cni.org/topics/information-access-retrieval/f13-frumkin-library/

The submission deadline for CNI's spring 2014 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on March 31-April 1 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than Friday, February 14. A limited number of proposals are accepted. For details, and for a submission form, please consult http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014/s14-submit-a-proposal/

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is Monday, February 24: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014/s14-registration-accommodations/.

Please use #cni14s in tweets about this meeting.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

The New Media Consortium (NMC) released the Horizon Report 2014 Higher Education Edition at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting. As usual, this highly anticipated report drew much interest. Some of the findings include "Integration of Online, Hybrid, and Collaborative Learning" as a fast trend (1-2 years), the "Shift from Students as Consumers to Students as Creators" as a mid-range trend (3-5 years) and "Evolution of Online Learning" as a long range trend (5+ years).

You'll find much more in the full report at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-nmc-horizon-report-he-EN.pdf It provides a lot of detail on the trends, including links to some very interesting examples.

Joan Lippincott, CNI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award

Washington, DC - February 3, 2014 - The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that Donald A.B. Lindberg, director, National Library of Medicine, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of network-based information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

“In terms of genuinely sustained, visionary, and high-impact leadership in using networked information to transform everything from consumer health care to fundamental research in molecular biology and related disciplines, I can’t think of any organization that can match the record of the National Library of Medicine under Don Lindberg’s leadership,” noted CNI executive director Clifford Lynch. “He has been responsible for an incredible string of strategic and often prescient commitments that have changed our world. Don is a wonderful choice for the Paul Evan Peters Award.”

Dear cni-announce subscribers, The M-Libraries Conference brings together an international group of experts working to promote the integration of mobile devices and content suited for mobile devices into libraries and their services. The next conference will be in Hong Kong from May 27-30, 2014. I am delighted to be one of the keynote speakers. A link to the conference website, where you will find the program and registration information, is below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Fifth International M-Libraries Conference, presented by The Open University (UK) in partnership with, and hosted by, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The overall theme for the conference is 'M-Libraries: from devices to people'. The programme features international keynote speakers and around 40 papers from 20 countries around the world.

Further details on the conference can be found at www.m-libraries.org

A new video of a project briefing session from CNI's fall 2013 meeting is now available:

Institutional Research Data Management: Policies, Planning, Services & Surveys

This video features discussion of university-wide data policy planning by Ricky Erway of OCLC Research, and a presentation by David Fearon (Johns Hopkins U.), and Andrew Sallans (Center for Open Science) on surveying and report on research data management services offered by ARL-member research libraries.

CNI Fall 2013 Membership Meeting: Institutional Research Data Management: Policies, Planning, Services and Surveys

David Fearon, Johns Hopkins University Andrew Sallans, Center for Open Science Ricky Erway, OCLC Research

Our colleagues at the Copley Library, University of San Diego, are offering a timely symposium, and the CNI constituency is invited to submit proposals for a conference session. Details are below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Call for Proposals: Digital Initiatives Symposium

When: April 9, 2014 Where: University of San Diego Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-initiatives-symposium-tickets-9504204331

I'm forwarding information on two workshops that may be of interest to cni-announce subscribers. Joan Lippincott, CNI

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment program and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, are pleased to offer two three-day in-depth workshops focused on using XML and XSLT in the library environment: “An Introduction to XML and XML Applications” and “Transforming Library Metadata with XSLT.” An Introduction to XML and XML Applications

February 26–28, 2014, in Washington, DC

New videos of presentations from CNI's fall 2013 meeting are now available:

Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers, Joan Lippincott (CNI), Harriette Hemmasi (Brown U.), Vivian Lewis (McMaster U.) Many higher education institutions are considering how to better support e-research in a wide variety of disciplines on their campus. One response is the development of physical spaces, often called “digital scholarship centers,” that provide high-end technologies and support services primarily to faculty, graduate students, and seniors working on capstone projects. This presentation provides an overview of digital scholarship center trends. http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-humanities/f13-lippincott-trends/

Capturing the Ephemeral: Collecting Social Media and Supporting Twitter Research with Social Feed Manager, Daniel Chudnov, Bergis Jules, Daniel Kerchner and Laura Wrubel (George Washington University) In 2012 George Washington University Libraries started collecting social media data from Twitter. The process began in direct response to researcher needs: social sciences professors were analyzing how major media organizations use Twitter and how congressional representatives interact with their constituencies, collecting tweets through painstaking manual processes that did not scale and slowed down research progress dramatically. To simplify their process, staff developed Social Feed Manager, a free and open source Web application that collects data from multiple Twitter accounts using the free Twitter API. This presentation includes lessons learned so far about building social media collections and establishing a program in support of researchers and special collections/university archives. http://www.cni.org/topics/social-media/f13-chudnov-capturing/

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2013 CNI meeting. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

GET READY to Submit Your OR2014 Proposal A message from the Open Repositories 2014 Conference organizers As the year turns it's time to look forward to the Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2014 (#or2014). The conference will take place June 9-13 in Helsinki, Finland hosted by University of Helsinki‘s twin libraries: Helsinki University Library and the National Library of Finland. The theme this year is "Towards Repository Ecosystems" emphasizing the interconnected nature of repositories, institutions, technologies, data and the people who make it all work together. There are several different formats (see below) provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference. With the deadline for submissions fast approaching the organizers invite you to review the call for proposals here:http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281, and to submit your proposal here:https://www.conftool.com/or2014/ by Feb. 3, 2014. KEY DATES • 3 February 2014: Deadline for submissions • 4 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference • 17 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to interest groups • 9-13 June 2014: OR2014 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS Conference Papers and Panels We welcome proposals that are at least two pages and no more than four pages in length for presentations or panels that deal with digital repositories and repository services. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as an Interest Group presentation. Interest Group Presentations One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (DSpace, ePrints, Fedora and Invenio) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. 24x7 Presentation Proposals We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This format will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. "Repository Rants" 24x7 Block One block of 24x7's at OR14 will revolve around "repository rants": brief exposés that challenge the conventional wisdom or practice, and highlight what the repository community is doing that is misguided, or perhaps just missing altogether. The top proposals will be incorporated into a track meant to provoke unconventional approaches to repository services. Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's" We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters, demonstrations, technical how-tos and technology briefings. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. Developer "How-To's" will provide a forum for running a mini-tutorial or demonstration in the developer lounge, if there are enough interested parties. Developer Challenge Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2014 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. Workshops and Tutorials One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Please address the following in your proposal: • The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey • Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) • How many attendees you plan to accommodate • Technology and facility requirements • Any other supplies or support required • A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session • Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/ See you in Helsinki!

-- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris@DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace Twitter@DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org

I want to share this announcement of the call for proposals for the international ETD conference, the premier venue for learning about the latest developments in electronic theses and dissertations.

Joan Lippincott, CNI

With apologies for cross-posting

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) 2014: 23 to 25 July 2014, Leicester, UK. Deadline for proposals for papers and posters is 31 January ETD2014 – the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations’ (NDLTD) 17th annual symposium – takes place at the University of Leicester, UK from 23 to 25 July 2014.