The last video from the Spring 2010 CNI meeting is now available; I’ve held off announcing it for a little while because it’s quite special, and I did not want it to be missed in the flood of other announcements.
This presentation describes a wonderful project at the University of Oregon which helps students to understand the uses of primary source materials, and also to think about their own roles as creators of such materials, and as prospective contributors to the collective social record. Technology comes into play, of course, but is very much in the background in some sense. It seems to me that the ideas here can be readily adapted and used by a wide range of institutions. If you are not familiar with this project, the video of this presentation is worth watching.
Here are the details:
Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community
Andrew Bonamici, University of Oregon
Heather Briston Corrigan-Solari, University of Oregon
Kevin Hatfield, University of Oregon
Matthew Villeneuve, University of Oregon
Available from CNI’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/cnivideo
(direct link is , if you prefer)
also available from CNI’s Vimeo channel: http://www.vimeo.com/cni
(direct link is http://www.vimeo.com/11280442, if you prefer)
Over the past few years, we’ve had several presentations at CNI covering a system called VIVO, which originated at Cornell and was designed to help researchers find other researchers with similar or related interests. More recently, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, it has established a national footprint. You can find video of their presentation at the Spring 2010 CNI meeting at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo#p/u/3/gRnGAuMMPnk
or http://vimeo.com/11345580
Next month, the VIVO consortium is holding its first meeting. I have included the call for participation below.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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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.
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)
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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.
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:
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.
Recordings of two lectures by CNI’s Executive Director Clifford Lynch are now available:
Video of Clifford Lynch’s talk, Scholarship, Cultural Memory and Libraries in the 21st Century, presented in April 2010 at The Catholic University of America as the Twentieth Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture, can be viewed at: http://live.cua.edu/ACADEMICS/SLIS/StoneLecture.cfm
In June 2009, Clifford spoke at the International Society for Knowledge Organization’s Content Architecture Conference. The recording of his keynote address, e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring is accessible from: http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm
A video recording of the CNI 2010 Spring Membership Meeting closing plenary session is now available for streaming or downloading. Liz Lyon’s presentation Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade can be accessed from:
More videos from the spring 2010 meeting will be announced shortly. All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channels at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni . Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.
CNI is pleased to announce the new CNI YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo, featuring full-length video recordings of selected sessions from CNI membership meetings. Current offerings include Bernard Frischer’s closing plenary address on 3D modeling of cultural heritage sites and monuments (fall 2009), David Rosenthal’s discussion of the longevity of digital documents (spring 2009), and presentations by Clifford Lynch, Herbert Van de Sompel, and others. Recordings from future meetings will be made available from the site.
Two new videos from CNI’s December membership meeting in are now available for streaming or download:
Memento: Time Travel for the Web, a project briefing presented by Herbert Van de Sompel & Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Michael Nelson from Old Dominion University, is at http://vimeo.com/8365394
Also by Robert Sanderson and Herbert Van de Sompel, the project briefing Interoperable Annotation: Perspectives from the Open Annotation Collaboration can be accessed at http://vimeo.com/8481040
For those hoping for more compact recordings of content from CNI’s meetings, AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for the four sessions recorded at CNI’s fall 2009 meeting:
A video recording of the CNI 2009 Fall Membership Meeting closing plenary session is now available for streaming or downloading. Bernard Frischer’s presentation Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments can be accessed from http://vimeo.com/8345677.
More video from the fall 2009 meeting will be announced shortly. All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni. Subscribe to the CNI video channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available: http://vimeo.com/channels/cni/videos/rss.
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