The McKinsey & Co. Global Institute has released an interesting report titled "Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance" which covers the potential of opening up data (particularly government data) across a number of sectors, including education. Pointers to the executive summary and the full report, plus some related audio materials, can be found at

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For the last few years, the Library of Congress has been running an excellent annual meeting Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections, which is a great source of information on storage technology developments as they connect with digital preservation. The presentations for the 2013 meeting, held on 23-24 September, are now available at

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/storage13.html

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The Learning Spaces Collaboratory presents many fine programs. You may be interested in registering for the upcoming webinar. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Please join us for the LSC Webinar: Spaces for Making the Process of Learning Transparent for Faculty at Purdue University on Wednesday, November 6, 2013. 5:00 p.m. EST.

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A few days ago I sent out an announcement about a conference that the Smithsonian was hosting in Washington DC on 3-D imaging and reproduction for cultural heritage. Since then, I have heard some bad news and some good news from our friends at the Smithsonian. The bad news is that the physical event is completely subscribed. The good news is that the entire event is going to be webcast. Details are not yet available, but if you check back at http://3d.si.edu as the event date gets closer, you should be able to get information about how to join the web cast. You can also find information about the sessions and speakers at that address currently.

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Purdue University Press is about to release a new book titled Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals, edited by Joyce Ray, who many readers of CNI-announce will remember from her service with the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). I was delighted to have the opportunity to write a closing chapter for this book, dealing with my view of upcoming research data management challenges, but the core of the book is focused on ongoing work at various leadership institutions currently engaging the research data management challenge. I think that this is going to be a very helpful r(and at least right now, fairly unique) reference for institutions currently developing and deploying research data management support programs and strategies.

My closing chapter is available via the CNI web site, at

http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Research-Data-Mgt-Ch19-Lynch-Oct-29-2013.pdf

More detailed information on the table of contents, and on how to order the full volume (which Purdue is making available as both a printed book and an e-book) can be found at

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) has just issued a report on the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data; this should be of interest in a wide range of data curation contexts. you can find some background on the report, and a pointer to the report proper, at:

New NDSA Report: Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data | The Signal

Digital mapping information is an essential part of the backbone of our economy through the now-widespread consumer applications that allow us to track our location, find a nearby restaurant or guide us on a journey. While largely invisible to the casual user, the geospatial data that underpins these applications allows us to know what our …

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As a way of raising awareness and stimulating thinking about the potential for new uses of research data and information, the US National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information (which I currently co-chair), has issued an open challenge for exemplary projects. The announcement is below. I hope that there will be some great submissions from members of the CNI community.

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I wanted to share the announcement of this fascinating and important conference being hosted by the Smithsonian Institution on November 13-14, 2013 in Washington, DC. It's free, though registration is required and limited.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Smithsonian Institution invites you to attend an event about museums and 3D technologies on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Wednesday, November 13th and Thursday, November 14th. "Smithsonian X 3D" will feature two full days of in-depth talks, panel discussions and a 3D Technology Gallery showcasing how these technologies will transform the work of the Smithsonian Institution-and museum and research institutions worldwide.

There's a draft program available for the International Data Curation Conference, and registration is now open. It should be an excellent event, and CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor again this year. I hope to see many of you there.

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"Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society" 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA

In March 2013 the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) hosted a workshop at the LIbrary of Congress to help formulate national strategies for preserving software which I was fortunate to be able to attend. This was a helpful exploration of a very difficult, neglected, but vitally important area. A report from this meeting has just been issued, and you can find a summary, a pointer to the full report, and pointers to other materials related to the meeting at

Preserving.exe Report: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software | The Signal

Our world increasingly runs on software. From operating streetlights and financial markets, to producing music and film, to conducting research and scholarship in the sciences and the humanities, software shapes and structures our lives. Software is simultaneously a baseline infrastructure and a mode of creative expression. It is both the key to accessing and making …

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Dear cni-announce subscribers: NISO encourages those individuals who will be in Washington attending the CNI meeting on Dec. 9-10 to stay for their in-person meeting on the Altmetrics Project on Wednesday, Dec. 11. Information is provided below. Joan Lippincott CNI

NISO Altmetrics Project - In-person Meeting: December 11, 2013 in Washington, DC

In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL.

NC State University hosted a conference Designing Libraries for the 21st Century II held on October 6-8 and the speaker presentations (including my own) are now available at: The Designing Libraries II speaker presentations and program are now online.

Presentations | NC State University Libraries

Pre Conference Environmental Scan Shawna Sadler   Conference Realizing the Vision   Realizing the Vision    Susan K.Nutter, Vice Provost and Direc

The University of Calgary Library and CNI were co-sponsors of this conference.

I know you'll find the presentations on new technologies, lessons learned a year after renovations, and links to learning and research very useful if you are involved in a renovation or other type of building project.

CNI director Clifford Lynch and David Fenske, founding Dean of Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), discuss top tech, policy, and information science trends and challenges in this public conversation, part of CCI's Fall 2013 Speaker Series. The event took place on Oct. 4, 2013.

Video of the exchange is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjPxIkKHHLA

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

CNI executive director Clifford Lynch will kick off Loyola's Open Access Week 2013. In his keynote, The Move to Openness: An Intellectual Shift for Our Time, Cliff will address open access, its impact on academic institutions and how the broader intellectual shift is affecting not only academic institutions, but all areas of research. What will the future of research look like?

The talk will take place Monday, October 21, 10 a.m. (coffee at 9:30am), Klarchek Information Commons, 4th floor, Lake Shore Campus

This event is open to the public. RSVP to libraryprograms@luc.edu is appreciated.

More information about Loyola University Chicago's Open Access Week 2013 is at http://libguides.luc.edu/openaccess

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2013 Membership Meeting are due NEXT MONDAY, Oct. 21. Proposals may be submitted via the online form:

http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/submit-a-proposal/ or by e-mail to Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

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

Project briefings are 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. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. The meeting will be held Dec. 9-10, 2013 in Washington, DC.

Dear Colleagues,

The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) which many of you knew as the PKAL program, is offering a great opportunity for participants to attend a workshop which will encourage you to "shape and reshape the physical learning environment for an undergraduate community, to create 21st century spaces for 21st century learners." The program will be at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC on Saturday, November 2, 2013.

This workshop is intended for institutional teams who will "leave with a draft agenda for act;ion for transforming learning spaces on a campus."

LSC workshops are dynamic, thought-provoking, and hands-on. They provide an excellent means for campus teams to share ideas and move forward together.

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Fall 2012 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC on Dec. 9-10.

Project briefings are 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. A limited number of project briefings are accepted.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/f13_submit-a-proposal/

or by e-mail to Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

CNI's Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott will present a Community Update on Thursday, Oct. 17th, to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will be from 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM in meeting room 213A. We particularly invite individuals who do not regularly attend CNI membership meetings to come to this introductory session.

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

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

The most recent issue of Science includes a substantial section covering developments in communicating science, dealing with topics such as open access, peer review and scientific meetings. The articles in this section are free to read, and an idex to the section can be found at

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The 2014 Personal Digital Archiving Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 10-11, 2014. (Note that the dates have changed from the originally announced April 17-18). I've attached the call for papers for this important conference below. The Web site for the meeting at

also has some additional information, as well as links to materials from previous conferences in the series. Once again, CNI is very pleased to be a collaborating organization in this event.

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