The Open Annotation Collaboration continues to move ahead, and has just announced a workshop to help validate and expand the applicability of the model that they have developed. I've reproduced the announcement below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop will be held 24-25 March 2011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in- depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources.

There's a very nice new report available from the wonderfully named " Comité des Sages" (High Level Reflection Group on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage Online) titled "The New Renaissance". The report can be downloaded here:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf

and there's a press release at

Press corner | European Commission

Digital Agenda: ”Comité des Sages” calls for a ”New Renaissance” by bringing Europe\'s cultural heritage online IP\/11\/17Brussels, 10 January 2011Digital Agenda: ”Comité des Sages” calls for a ”New Re

The Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 4-5 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA. Registration materials will be sent by the end of this month to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, March 7. For more information, see the meeting Web site:

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, one hour breakout sessions which focus on a specific institutional project related to networked information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at

Happy New Year.

We've now collected substantially all of the presentation materials from the fall CNI meeting and linked them to the presentation listing on the CNI web site.

We are starting to roll out the videos from selected sessions. My opening plenary talk is now available both on Vimeo

Materials from the December 2010 International Digital Curation Conference are now available online; these include presentation materials, which are linked to the programme, and video of the main talks.

All the links are collected here:

As I mentioned in the December 2010 CNI Conversations, two of the sessions I found most compelling were those by Chris Lintott of Galaxy Zoo about the design of systems to support citizen scientist engagemetn, and the really frightening talk by Anthony Williams about quality and consistency issues across reference and research support databases in chemistry.There is video of both of these sessions available through Vimeo.

Many of the interviews conducted by EDUCAUSE during the Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting are now online: http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/220937

The podcasts include: * A conversation with MacKenzie Smith of MIT on linked open data and the latest from MIT's Simile Project * 2011 initiatives planned for the Library of Congress National Digital Preservation Program from Martha Anderson and Laura Campbell * Dean Krafft on re-imagining IT at Cornell University

These recordings are designed to function as an extension of the meeting, complementing the standard program, and providing an opportunity for the broader CNI community to hear from some of our key presenters and attendees.

The meeting was held December 13-14, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

The podcast of the Dec. 16 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). This call featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff also discussed the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the 2010-2011 CNI Program Plan, and The Next Twenty Years, a CNI project at the 20-year mark.

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real- time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Yesterday, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a report "Desiging a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Neworking and Information Technology"; this is a very interesting look at the coordinated, collective federal government investment in advanced information and networking technology. The report can be found at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Earlier this week at the Fall CNI Membership meeting, Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum and Rachel Donahue of the University of Maryland College Park presented their results of their study of digital forensics tools and methods in the context of curating digital materials. We'll be making video of this presentation available online early in the new year and will annouce this through CNI-announce when it's available. Concurrent with the CNI presentation, however, CLIR has released the full report of the digital forensics project; it's available at

http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html

I've reproduced the CLIR announcement below to provide some additional background on this very interesting work, which I think will have particular relevance to the management of digtal "personal papers" by archives and special collections in future.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The CNI 2010-2011 Program Plan, which was distributed in printed form to participants at our Fall Membership Meeting in Washington DC earlier this week, is now available online at the CNI web site, at

Program Plan

Prior to 2020, CNI unveiled a new program plan at the annual fall membership meeting, offering an overview of priorities and plans for the upcoming program year. These provide a rich record of the …

We will also be mailing printed copies ot our member representatives.

The Fall meeting was a great success; in the coming weeks we'll be releasing video of the plenary sessions and a few selected breakouts, and also making available presentation materials on the CNI web site.

A Guide to the Fall 2010 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on December 13 and 14, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in digital information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in the Washington, DC area to provide opportunities to interact with policy makers and funders.

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, December 13. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by two rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, December 14, 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 7:00 PM on Monday evening, December 13, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in the Crystal City and Washington areas. Downtown Washington, DC is a quick taxi ride or accessible via the METRO, which is directly connected to the Crystal Gateway hotel.

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 Web site, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting.

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/schedule.html

Links from this page lead to session abstracts; we are continuing to add supplemental information as it becomes available.

Additionally, the meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) is available for download from: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/project.html

We will be posting meeting updates from the CNI Twitter account (http://twitter.com/cni_org ) using the hashtag #cni10f and we encourage other twitterers to do the same.

I wanted to share this announcement from the Association of Research Libraries with the CNI community; I know many of you will have seen it already, but because it's so closely connected with one of our key programmatic areas, and so timely for many of our member institutions as they develop strategies to respond to the new NSF requirements for data management plans, I'm reposting it here.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

ARL Releases New Guide and Launches Online Forum for Libraries Supporting the NSF Data Sharing Policy

Join us for a recap of CNI's 2010 fall membership meeting, and updates on issues of importance to the community - register now for the Dec. 16 session of CNI Conversations. The discussion will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at Jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing explores the future of university presses, and includes a piece by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, "Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age." The entire issue is freely available online at http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/.

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The podcast of the Nov. 17 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). During this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, and he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, as well as LC's recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism. Associate Director Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions asked during the call include a recent New York Times article on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real- time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

The call for participation in the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, to be held at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Feb 24-25, 2011, has just been released. You can find this at

and there is registration information at

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I wanted to share this symposium announcement with the CNI community. This is a topic of intense interest, and they've prepared an excellent panel. Note that they also intend to webcast the event.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleague,

There's an interesting free upcoming event being hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University on November 30 titled "BIg Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus", which offers a great set of speakers exploring some important and neglected issues at the interfaces between the management of the historical record, the data deluge, and a range of public policy challenges.

Full information on the meeting is here:

Clifford Lynch Director, Coalition for Networked Information

A preliminary list of project briefings to be presented at CNI's fall membership meeting is now available:

Session abstracts and a finalized scheduled will be posted shortly.