On November 18-19, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is going to be hosting an interesting Data Science Symposium that is focusing on benchmarking, measurement, reference datasets and related issues. Many of the goals of this symposium echo the ideas that have led NIST to play such a key role in advancing work in information retrieval through programs like TREC over the years.

Full information on the symposium is below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Here is information on a helpful recently-released study from the SURF Foundation in the Netherlands that looks at the state of play for research data across Europe, including some comparative national data. See

Page not found | SURF.nl

for a summary of the project, and

http://www.sim4rdm.eu/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/SIM4RDM%20landscape%20report%20vs1%204_14.08.13.pdf

A recent talk by Clifford Lynch, Cloud Architectures & Cultural Memory, a keynote address presented at the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2013) in Limerick, Ireland, is now available online: http://youtu.be/hOCPfA79MIs

In this talk, Lynch explores some of the challenges of provisioning various types of access and use of cultural materials in meaningful ways, and the ways in which cloud storage and computational utilities interact with these challenges.

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

CNI is pleased to be serving as a cooperating organization for this conference again this year.

IS&T is pleased to announce the release of the Archiving 2014 Call for Papers. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2014 to be held May 13-16, 2014 in Berlin, Germany is December 2, 2013. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/archiving.

Please note carefully the new submission rules and templates that can be found at www.imaging.org/archiving.

The University of California is hosting a Symposium titled "Reclaiming Open Learning" in Irvine on September 26-27; it is free and open to the public, and many of the sessions will be offered as live streamed video as well. Many of the sessions are structured as conversations rather than presentations, and the opening keynote at 5pm (Pacific) on the 26, featuring John Seely Brown and Amin Saberi in conversation, looks particularly interesting. This symposium is part of the overall Digital Media and Program supported by the MacArthur Foundation (there is more information on this linked to the web page below).

Full information can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The report "Out of Cite, Out of Mind" produced by the US CODATA group and the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), covering current practices and policies on data citation is now available. I have included the announcement below with full information.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleague:

The Digital Preservation Network: A Report and Discussion on DPN’s Emerging Architecture, System Protocol & Service Model, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Tom Cramer and James Simon of Stanford University, is now available on CNI's video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/lCvY0_hzyw8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/74750028

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a nationwide initiative to create a preservation backbone for digital information of interest to the academy. DPN comprises a handful of large-scale preservation repositories, which together form a heterogeneous network of secure, trustworthy digital archives, each operated under diverse geographical, organizational, financial, and technical regimes. Robust (bit) auditing and repair functions ensure the integrity and security of content over time. Intellectual property agreements among depositors, repositories and the university members of the Network ensure succession of rights to use content in the event of the dissolution of the original depositor or archive. Since late 2012, a technical team from the five initial nodes has been working on an initial implementation of the network. This presentation describes that group’s work, which includes basic design principles, functional requirements and system specifications; the Network’s high level architecture and protocols for content replication and auditing; and framing of detailed service and policy questions that will drive the Network’s overall design and operation.

More information is available at http://www.cni.org/go/dpn-pb-s13/

In this recent podcast interview from EDUCAUSE, Wake Forest University e-Learning Librarian Kyle Denlinger talks about how the Wake Forest Library experimented with massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) as a new way to sell the concept of librarians as experts. To do this, ZSRx was created; it is a free, four-week, open, online course targeting Wake Forest parents and alumni, designed to help them use the Web more effectively while having fun, connecting with others, and learning about new tools.

Listen to the interview with Denlinger: http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-information-literacy-moocs-wake-forest-university

More information about the project briefing on this topic at CNI's Spring 2013 Membership Meeting, ZSRx: An Information Literacy MOOC, is at http://www.cni.org/topics/teaching-learning/zsrx-an-information-literacy-mooc/

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

We posted the announcement of registration for this conference on Data Information Literacy and the conference reached its registration cap very quickly; I know some of you were disappointed that you would not be able to attend in person. The conference organizers recently announced that they will be live streaming the sessions - see below - so you will have another mode for access. The conference will be hosted at Purdue University. --Joan Lippincott CNI

From the conference organizers: We are pleased to announce that much of the Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th will be streamed live on the internet.

We're still finalizing the URL information, but in the means time you can track updates via our Twitter (@datainfolit) and Facebook pages (www.facebook.com/datainfolit).

The Fall 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 9-10 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. Registration materials are being sent to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Tuesday, November 12. For more information, see the meeting website:

CNI Fall 2013 Membership Meeting

CNI Fall 2013 Membership Meeting December 9-10, 2013 Washington, DC Capital Hilton Thanks to all who participated in CNI’s Fall 2013 Membership Meeting! We will be posting meeting materials h…

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via online form:

There's a very nice book coming out from Information Today, edited by Donald Hawkins, which pulls together many of the key themes that have emerged from the last few Personal Digital Archiving conferences and offers a broad look at developments in this area. We have covered a number of these themes at CNI member meetings over the past few years. The book includes chapters from several people well known to the CNI community; I'm delighted to have been able to contibute a short chapter that focuses on the future research agendas for personal digital archiving .

The book is called Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. The publisher's page for the book (including a link to order copies, which are on sale during the pre-order period) is at

Personal Archiving – Information Today Books and Plexus Publishing

Preserving Our Digital Heritage Edited by Donald T. Hawkins Foreword by Brewster Kahle This multi-authored work offers one of the first and most robust explorations of the emerging field of persona…

The table of contents and the introductory chapter by Jeff Ubois of the MacArthur Foundation are at

I wanted to share this call for comments with the broad CNI community. Preserving digital news is a very important problem, and a very hard one; the NEH-funded project that is creating this document should be a helpful step.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh) is seeking further reviews and comments on the Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. This is the first major deliverable from this three-year project (2011-2014) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to research and document a series of preservation readiness steps for digital newspaper curators. The review period end date has now been extended to September 30, 2013 so that we can receive as many comments as possible. Reviewers now have the option of requesting a PDF for offline reading (more info below).

LSC (Learning Spaces Collaboratory) formerly known as Project Kaleidoscope or PKAL, has been offering terrific workshop on learning spaces for a number of years. You will see below the offerings for this fall, including both in-person events and webinars. Note that a major new resource, The LSC GUide to Planning & Assessing 21st Century Learning Spaces for 21st Century Learners will be available this fall. When that publication comes out, I'll post a separate announcement. I serve on the advisory committee of the LSC. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Welcome to LSC Events for Fall 2013

· What do we want our learners to become? · How does learning happen? · What difference does space make to learning? · How do we know?

Registration is now open for the ARL Fall Forum 2013, Mobilizing the Research Enterprise, to be held in Arlington, Virginia, October 10–11. The program will explore the response to the White House memorandum “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.” An opening keynote address will be presented by Richard McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University; CNI director Clifford Lynch, will moderate the panel discussion "Facilitating New Forms of Discovery." Sessions at this year's Fall Forum will cover a range of topics including infrastructure, discovery, policy issues, and data management/data sharing.

For details, and to register, see http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/2888-register-now-for-arl-fall-forum-mobilizing-the-research-enterprise

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

Stephen Wolfram has an incredible record of innovation, ranging from his early work in cellular automata through his development of Mathematica (25 years old this year), and more recently the publication of the book "A New Kind of Science" and the creation of Wolfram Alpha, a unique networked based computation and information retrieval resource.

He will be giving a public address at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress on September 4 at 11AM. Advanced registration is required. I've reproduced the announcement below with the link for registration. This talk will launch a series of Innovation Talks that are being sponsored by the Library of Congress FEDLINK.

I have had the opportunity to hear Wolfram on several occasions and have found him to be both fascinating and deeply thought-provoking. This is a great opportunity to hear one of the genuine innovators of our time.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

New podcast interviews from EDUCAUSE feature conversations with speakers from CNI's spring 2013 membership meeting:

"Rights, Research, Results — The Copyright Review Management System" http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-rights-research-results-—-copyright-review-management-system

Melissa Levine is lead copyright officer and principal investigator at the University of Michigan. In this conversation she reviews the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project and considers the promise this effort holds for the future of access to electronic scholarly resources.

"Scholarly Communication — New Models For Digital Scholarship Workflows" http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-scholarly-communication-—-new-models-digital-scholarship-workflows

G. Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, has just published a short free e-book titled "The Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age", discussing the efforts of memory institutions to open up their collections through information technology.

Further information and a link to the book can be found here:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Metadata [R]evolution: Transformative Opportunities (A "Collective Insight" event, hosted by Johns Hopkins University), will take place on Sept. 18, 2013, in Baltimore, MD and via live streaming video. For more information and to register, consult the event website: http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/2013/CollectiveInsightSeries/CollectiveInsight_JohnsHopkins_130918.html

Here is the call for papers for the next International Data Curation Conference (IDCC), which will be held in San Francisco on February 24-27, 2014. Once again, CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor of this important international meeting. I hope that many CNI-announce readers will be able to join us in San Francisco.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I am posting this announcement of a new learning space rating system for classrooms, an important development for those of you interested in learning space design. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings, I am writing to announce a new learning space initiative: the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS).

The web site for the LSRS initiative is at: http://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/learning-space-rating-system and detailed information about the project is available from those LSRS web pages.