The archived audio recording of the July 15 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 session includes a recap of the JISC/CNI Edinburgh conference by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch and myself; sessions on e-science, "digging into data challenge projects," special collections, institutional strategies for digital content, and services for users of mobile devices were highlighted. Cliff also discussed the IATUL conference and the Microsoft research meeting. I gave a summary of an article on the current status of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) programs in the US that Cliff and I co- authored and that will appear soon in the ARL publication RLI (issue 270).

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 me at Joan@cni.org.

Register now for the July 15 session of CNI Conversations; the call 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/ .

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

See the Twitter stream for the JISC/CNI 2010 Meeting, Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment, by searching the hashtag #JISCCNI. The meeting blog, where more information about the meeting will be posted in the coming days, including brief vodcast interviews, is available at http://jisccni.jiscinvolve.org/wp/.

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

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I'm pleased to announce a new video from CNI's spring meeting, "Learning Commons: What's Working." The session includes three perspectives on assessment of learning or information commons. The speakers included John Culshaw, University of Colorado, Boulder; Anu Vedantham, University of Pennsylvania, and myself. I think you'll find the content very informative if you are interested in these issues. Along with some other videos of meeting sessions, it is available on the CNI YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni)

Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.

--Joan

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) joan@cni.org www.cni.org

Register now for the July 15 session of CNI Conversations; the call 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.

Dear cni-announce subscribers,

We have a great lineup of speakers for the upcoming JISC/CNI conference in Edinburgh. In addition to the plenary speakers listed below, both Cliff and I will be presenting breakout sessions. Hope to see you there. Joan

A reminder about the forthcoming JISC/CNI event in Edinburgh. It is not too late to register; the delegate rate is £345 including attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast. For registration, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2010/ Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment Following the success of previous conferences held in venues such as York and Belfast, JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are proud to announce the 8th International Meeting that will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh on 1-2 July 2010. The meeting will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Parallel sessions will explore and contrast major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic. It should be of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research. The main conference will open at 09.30hrs on Thursday 1 July and will close at 15.00hrs on Friday 2 July. Conference keynote speakers include: Dan Atkins, Professor and Associate Vice President, University of Michigan and former Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, US National Science Foundation Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, John Hopkins University Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN Topics for sessions include: Cloud Computing Innovation in Learning and Teaching Open Data Policies Shared Services Repositories Digital Content and Institutional Planning Resource Discovery Digital Preservation e-Science The residential delegate fee includes attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast for one person. The residential delegate rate is £345. To register for the event, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2010/

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

This international group has taken the lead in organizing programs related to use of mobile devices in library and information-oriented applications. The proceedings from last year's conference are now available - see below - and plans are underway for the 2011 conference in Australia - save the date! I am on the international organizing committee for the conference. Joan

The book of proceedings from the second International Conference has just been launched http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=696-1 and the publishers have given us permission to make the book from the first conference freely available for download. This can be accessed via the m-libraries website http://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries

New videos from CNI's spring meeting are available on the CNI YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni) channels:

*As Lives are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations, by CNI director Clifford Lynch

*DuraCloud: Preservation Infrastructure in the Cloud, by Andrew Woods of DuraSpace

More videos from CNI's April membership meeting will be announced soon. Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.

A recent talk on developments in scholarship and scholarly communication presented by Clifford Lynch at the TERENA Networking Conference 2010 is available: http://globalplaza.org/spaces/terena/events/tnc-2010?show_video=375

The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community. TNC 2010 was held on May 31- June 3 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

The the archived audio recording of the May 27 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 session includes discussion of a recent meeting on computer forensics and cultural heritage, as well as information about a symposium at the University of North Texas dealing with a campus policy on open access. CNI Director Clifford Lynch also talked about the Sage Bionetworks Congress held in April 2010, to establish the foundation for the new public domain resource, the Sage Commons. Associate Director Joan Lippincott provides an overview of her talk at the upcoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference (Austin, TX, June 2010), in which she will speak on how library and IT units can better support students at the thesis or dissertation stage. Questions included the Center for Studies in Higher Education meeting on peer review, and the data management plan recently mandated by the National Science Foundation as part of grants.

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.

This popular institute, led by Steve Worona of EDUCAUSE and Tracy Mitrano of Cornell, is a great way to get up-to-date while enjoying summer by Lake Cayuga. --Joan Lippincott

Register now for the 2010 Cornell University/EDUCAUSE Institute for Computer Policy and Law

Dear Colleague,

NISO is hoping for a broad response to its survey on version practices related to journal articles. You'll find a link to the survey below. --Joan Lippincott

Online publishing allows for the release of multiple versions of journal articles -- and these growing practices are redefining our concept of “publishing” and the “version of record.” How do we determine when a manuscript is considered final? Which version should be cited? How do we best indicate online article versions?

In 2008, NISO published the Recommended Practice, "Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group" (NISO RP-8-2008; available at http://www.niso.org/publications/rp) . The recommended version classifications could be incorporated into article metadata for database management, archiving and cataloging, online display, and more.

Interviews conducted by EDUCAUSE during the Spring 2010 CNI Membership Meeting (held in Baltimore, MD on April 12-13) are now online:

The podcasts include a conversation with Ithaka research manager Roger Schonfeld, who discusses findings from his organization's latest faculty survey, as well as a discussion on the challenges of open access with opening plenary panelist Mary Marlino, Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Library. 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.

Mark your calendars: CNI's Spring 2011 Membership Meeting will take place on April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. As a reminder, the next membership meeting will be held on December 13-14, 2010, in Washington, DC. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our colleague Anita de Waard from Elsevier Labs sent me an announcement for a very interesting NSF-sponsored workshop on the archving of scientific experiments, which has clear links to scientific data management and the ability to reproduce experiments. There are workshop materials on the site, and they are also streaming the workshop live today and tomorrow. I don't know if the video streams will be saved and available later on demand.

My apologies for posting this so late: I hope it will still be useful to CNI-announce readers. I'll put out a further announcement when the workshop report is available.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Paul Uhlir has asked me to share this invitation to a very interesting symposium that's being held in conjunction with the US National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information's meeting on June 3 and 4 in Washington DC. Some of you may recall that Paul gave a CNI briefing recently on the work of the Board, which is involved in many policy areas related to research data management that are central to the CNI agenda; you can find extensive background on the Board's work at http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleagues,

Register now for the May 27 session of CNI Conversations; the call 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.

This is a great opportunity for members of the CNI community involved in digital government information. -- Joan Lippincott

THE PROGRAM

The Best Practices Exchange (www.bpexchange.org/2010/) is an informal gathering of practitioners working to create systems to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital government information. The Exchange provides an opportunity for them to discuss their real-world experiences, including best practices and lessons learned. Past attendees include librarians, archivists, information technologists, educators, and researchers.

I'm passing along this announcement from the editors of the Academic Commons Newsletter. The Academic Commons is an initiative involving those interested in teaching, learning, and technology in the liberal arts college community. There are a number of interesting studies here (see below). Full disclosure - I am on their advisory board. Joan Lippincott

We are excited to announce publication of the May 2010 issue of Academic Commons (http://academiccommons.org) .

"Advancing Towards Liberal Arts 3.0" is available online now. This issue marks the second installment in a new collaboration between Academic Commons and the National Institute for Technology in the Liberal Arts (NITLE). Here you'll find profiles of innovative projects taking place on NITLE-member campuses, written by the people who made them happen.

If your institution is interested in increasing linkages among researchers, you might want to check out the VIVO project. The project organizers are offering a conference in August. We have had 2 sessions on the VIVO project at CNI meetings - one in 2007 when it was initially developed at Cornell, and one at our last meeting in April. Video from that session "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists" is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRnGAuMMPnk or http://www.vimeo.com/11345580

Joan Lippincott

Announcing the first annual National VIVO Conference: Enabling National Networking of Scientists August 12-13, 2010 New York Hall of Science The first annual National VIVO Conference, Enabling National Networking of Scientists, will bring together scientists, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students and those supporting the development of team science. This two day conference will begin with workshops and tutorials for those new to VIVO, those implementing VIVO at their institutions, and those wishing to develop applications using VIVO. Invited speakers will present regarding the Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and the role of VIVO in support of team science. Panelists will discuss adoption and implementation findings. Feedback sessions will engage participants in requirements gathering and brainstorming regarding future network services. Presenters will discuss mapping, social networking, crowd sourcing, support for societies and other national network applications. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org/conference . VIVO is an open source, open ontology, research discovery platform for hosting information about scientists, their interests, activities, and accomplishments. VIVO supports open development and integration of science through simple, standard semantic web technologies. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org. VIVO is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822.

JISC has just released the final report of a major study of the costs of preserving research data. The details are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available from the JISC website. This KRDS2 study report presents the results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further development of the KRDS activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs. The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles Beagrie Ltd. and associates.