In conjunction with the September 23-24, 2013 meeting of the National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information, or BRDI, (which I currently co-chair) the Board will be hosting a public symposium titled Privacy in a Big Data World. I have reproduced the full announcement below. The event is free, but if you want to attend in person you need to register in advance as discussed below; we will also be webcasting the symposium. More detail can also be found here:

The Board will meet on September 23-24, 2013, and preliminary information about the meeting (which will be updated as the agenda finalizes) can be found at

I am looking forward to seeing many of our CNI members at the Designing Libraries conference at NC State University. We have put together a program with a wide range of speakers, and if you are planning a renovation or new library facility, you will this conference to be stimulating and informative. Registration (for a fee) is limited. Hotel information is now available on the website. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is now open for the Second Annual Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/designing-libraries-II which will take place from October 6-8, 2013. Registration will be limited to facilitate substantive interactions with attendees and speakers during this single-track conference.

On the website you'll find information on a technology pre-conference, tours, and conference sessions; more detail on speakers will be posted soon. The conference will be located at the new James B . Hunt Jr. Library on the campus of North Carolina State University. The conference is cosponsored by NCSU, the University of Calgary, and the Coalition for Networked Information.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has just issued a call for information on software tools and analysis methods as part of their Big Data to Knowledge Initiative. Details can be found here:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HG-13-014.html

Responses are due by September 6. I hope that they will share what they learn with the broader community; this is a very interesting RFI.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Institutions that are developing ETD programs often have a need for information on a wide range of issues, from access and embargo issues (currently in the news due to the American Historical Association statement) to curatorial practices in the digital environment. A group of experts has written a set of materials addressing many aspects of ETD lifecycle management. The editors are requesting that interested parties review the documents and send comments to improve the content. I have already contributed comments and encourage all of you, whether you have existing ETD programs or are in the formative stages, to give some feedback to the editors. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

The ETD Lifecycle Management project (http://metaarchive.org/imls) releases for public review the draft Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and led by the University of North Texas, in partnership with the NDLTD and Educopia Institute, the ETD Lifecycle Management project is promoting best practices and improving the capacity of academic libraries to preserve ETDs for future researchers.

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance has recently released its 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which can be found at

This is a very valuable concise survey and agenda for high priority areas of digital stewardship; it's also important because it reflects the wide consultation and breadth that characterizes the important leadership and coordinating work of the Alliance.

I apologize to the many CNI-announce readers who have doubtless already seen announcements of this report (or indeed contributed to its development) but I think it's significant enough that I wanted to be sure that the entire CNI community was aware of it; those who do not follow digital stewardship developments in detail will, I believe, find the report to be a quite helpful snapshot.

I'd like to encourage the CNI constituency to contribute stories to this EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) project that my colleague Malcolm Brown is leading. Many of you have likely benefited from the informative and timely "7 Things You Should Know About" series that they produce, and EDUCAUSE is now looking for specific ways you and your institution have employed what you learned through a "7 Things" publication. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings, The ELI is preparing the 100th issue of its series 100 Things You Should Know About publication.

To prepare the issue, we are seeking stories about how folks have used the publication in the context of their work. Do you — or any of your colleagues -- have a story that --describes how you’ve made use of 7 Things; --illustrates how others at your institution have used 7 Things; --describes how 7 Things was useful to you or a colleague in an unexpected way; and so forth.

Three keynotes from the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital LIbraries, which took place in Indianapolis on July 22-26, are now available on Youtube. I had the honor of providing the opening keynote talk and was able to stay and enjoy the entire conference, which was excellent. I am also delighted that CNI was able to once again serve as a cooperation organization for the conference.

The three keynotes were:

My own, which dealt with issues about the changing nature of digital libaries and the shift to very large scale systems, and the challenges of coherence and prioritization that we face as a result of this shift.

While some of this report is quite specific to the situation in the UK, I thought that CNI-announce readers would find the study of interest. It's one of the few things that I know of that focuses mainly on the openness aspects of research data management support, as distinct from issues involving preservation or organization of research data.

I've reproduced the announcement below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The National Academies has recently released a prepublication version of a report on Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis; this is available for free downloading at

Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis

Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. Collections of documents, images, videos, and networks are being thought of not merely as bit strings to be stored, indexed, and retrieved, but as potential sources of discovery and knowledge, requiring sophisticated analysis techniques that go far beyond classical indexing and keyword counting, aiming to find relational and semantic interpre...

This is a really nice survey of much of the state of the art and the current issues involved in so-called big data arising in a variety of different contexts.

And just in time for those needing beach reading!

The following report will be of interest to some CNI-announce readers concerned with large scale research data management infrastructure planning.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

"Requirements for a multi-disciplinary Research Data Infrastructure", English translation of project report published.

Dear cni-announce subscribers,

The website for the 2d Annual Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference is now available at https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/designing-libraries-II

You'll find information on the pre conference, tours, and conference sessions. CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor of this conference, along with NCSU Libraries and the University of Calgary, where the first conference was held.

If you are interested in library design, don't miss this conference to be held on October 6-8 at the fantastic new Hunt Library at NCSU.

For those following the work of the Research Data Alliance, the second plenary meeting will be held in Washington DC September 16-18, 2013. I've reproduced the announcement below. There is more detail (including logistical information) on the RDA web site, http://www.rd-alliance.org .

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The British Academy has published a series of eight essays dealing with open access primarily in the humanities and social sciences. These are available for download at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The uncorrected proofs of a report on a National Research Council workshop held March 21-22, 2013 in Washington DC to obtain perspectives from social and behavioral scientists on the proposed revisions of the "Common Rule" regulations that are intended to protect human subjects are now available for free download at:

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule: Perspectives of Social and Behavioral Scientists: Workshop Summary | The National Academies Press

On July 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soliciting...

I think that this will be of interest to a number of CNI-announce readers involved in data curation, as it is highly relevant to understanding the conflicts and tensions between the goals of data sharing and reuse for data involving human subjects, particularly in the social and behavioral sciences, and the system that has been set up to regulate research involving human subjects with the goal of protecting these subjects. This already very complicated situation is further unsettled by some very complex revisions that were proposed to the human subjects regulatory framework in 2011; the potential impact of these changes is also discussed.

The workshop is part of an ongoing project that the Academies are conducting in this area; see

Steve Griffin, who many of you will remember from his time at the National Science Foundation, and now at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information, has asked me to share the call for contributions to a special issue of the International Journal of Digital Libraries that he is co-editing. He's assembled a stellar editorial board for this effort (among which you'll find four CNI keynote speakers!); his co-editor for the special issue is Stefan Gradmann of the University of Leuven. Many of the themes that he is hoping to engage here are very closely tied to the ongoing CNI agenda.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Digital Scholarship

A podcast of Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Process And Expectations, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Roberta Shaffer of the Library of Congress, is now available:

CNI Spring 2013: Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Process and Expectations

Roberta Shaffer, Library of Congress Listen to the Podcast

The Library of Congress (LC) has kicked off a process called the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) to develop a new communications vehicle for bibliographic data to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. This presentation will describe the BIBFRAME steps taken thus far and the current expectations for this development.

I'm delighted to to be able to inform CNI-announce readers that the 2014 Personal Digital Archiving meeting will be held April 17-18, 2014 at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, and that CNI will once again be a cooperating entity on this important meeting. A web site and call for participation will be available later, and I'll share that information here when I have it, but in the mean time hold the dates.

For information on the 2013 Personal Digitial Archiving meeting, which took place this February, see

and for the earlier meetings hosted at the Internet Archive, see

I'm very pleased to be able to share the announcement for this second conference on Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (and also to have the opportunity to speak at it). I hope that many interested readers of this list have had the opportunity to look at the proceedings book from the wonderful earlier conference that was held in Estonia in 2011 (this is available free for download at the educopia.org web site); I am hopeful that using this as a point of departure, it should be possible to make a great deal of progress at the Barcelona meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Our colleagues encourage your participation in this survey on a broad range of activities related to library publishing. If your library is involved in this kind of work, please add your information so that it will appear in the Directory of Library Publishing Services.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Colleagues,

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in Chicago, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will participate in the Digital Content Working Group (DCWG) panel ALA, Ebooks & Digital Content: What's Next? on Saturday, June 29, 1:00-2:30 p.m., in Convention Center S502. Also at the meeting, Clifford will be part of LITA's Top Technology Trends Panel on Sunday, June 30 at 1:00 p.m., Convention Center S105a-c.

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