CNI Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar Series - Registration Open
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce that registration is open for a webinar series Digital Scholarship Planning, which will...
Summary of February 2020 NLM Workshop on Generalist Repositories
On February 11-12, 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) held a very interesting workshop on the role of what they are terming "generalist" data...
"OCLC Research Library Partnership Webinar Series on Cross-Campus
The OCLC Research Library Partnership has announced a series of webinars, starting in late August, that explore cross-campus collaborations for research...
"Report on Intersection of Humanities and Data Science from Turing
The Alan Turing Institute in the UK has just issued a very interesting report looking at challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of...
"Summary and Recordings from National Academies Reopening Research
On July 21, the US National Academies hosted a half-day virtual workshop exploring the issues involved in reopening research universities. I was fortunate to...
"IMLS Grant Awarded to Support National Finding Aids Network
I was delighted to see that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has just awarded a National Leadership Grant to a group of collaborators lead by the...
"Controlled Digital Lending - Update on Some Recent Developments, In
It's clear that Controlled Digital Lending approaches are proving to be very important in maintaining continuity of research and instruction during the...
OCLC Paper on LInked Data for Archives and Special Collections
OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership have just issued a very nice paper on issues surrounding the use of Linked Data in Archives and...
Jen Liu and Jake Tompkins Receive Paul Evan Peters Fellowships
Washington, DC — Doctoral student Jen Liu and master’s student Jacob (Jake) Tompkins are the 2020 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate...
"LC Labs Report by Prof Ryan Cordell on Machine Learning and
The Library of Congress Labs has just released a really excellent report on the prospects for machine learning in libraries prepared by Professor Ryan...
AIP report on COVID-19 Impact on the Physical Sciences
I just found out about a report that came out last month from the American Institute of Physics looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...
Case for Sustained Strategic Investment in Scholarly Infrastructure
During the Spring CNI Virtual Member meeting in April-May 2020, I was frequently struck by the numerous ways in which roughly thirty years of sustained,...
ITHAKA S+R on Research Continuity -- Blog Post
Here's a very useful blog post that offers some survey data on how the COVID-19 shutdowns impacted faculty, based on work that Ithaka S+R did in May-June,...
NDSA 2020 Innovation Awards
I’m very pleased to share this call for nominations for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) 2020 Innovation Awards - more information about the...
"Protocols.io Webinar: Post COVID-19 Procedures for Safely Returning
Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with colleagues from Protocols.io. I have followed the wonderful work that they have been doing for the last few...
"Webinar on Recent NAS report: Lifecycle Decisions for Biomedical
A few weeks ago, I shared information about the availability of the report "Life Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data: The Challenge of Forecasting Costs,...
Lynch Webinars on Research Continuity & Learning Materials
Videos are now available of Clifford Lynch’s webinar presentations discussing the Executive Roundtables from CNI’s Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting: What Happens...
"Report of National Academies Committee on Forcasting Lifecycle
Over the past year or so I have been fortunate to serve on the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving and Promoting...
"EDUCAUSE Letter to Congress on Student Broadband Access and R&E
I wanted to be sure the CNI community was aware of this important action; in the current emergency even more that ever, universal high quality broadband...
"Report from Spring 2020 Executive Roundtable on Acquiring
On March 30-31, 2020 as part of the CNI Spring virtual Member Meeting, we held two convening of an Executive Roundtable on strategies for acquiring...
