Interviews with selected attendees and speakers from CNI’s spring 2022 membership meeting, produced by EDUCAUSE, are now available at https://er.educause.edu/podcasts/the-cni-interviews-podcast

The conversations include: ARL President K. Matthew Dames , K. Matthew Dames (Notre Dame University) Big Ten Academic Alliance , Maurice York (Big Ten Academic Alliance) Insights from Carnegie Mellon’s Dean of Libraries , Keith Webster (Carnegie Mellon University) Ithaka S+R’s Report on Big Data Infrastructure at the Crossroads , Danielle Cooper & Dylan Ruediger (Ithaka S+R) Updates from the San Diego Supercomputer Center , Frank Würthwein (San Diego Supercomputer Center) More interviews from EDUCAUSE conducted at CNI’s spring 2022 meeting will be posted shortly.

This release continues an EDUCAUSE-produced based on interviews conducted at CNI events for many years, featuring conversations with leaders and innovators in libraries, research, networked information, higher education, and related fields. We are delighted that the program has returned after a brief hiatus, now under the moniker “CNI Interviews Podcast” – our thanks to EDUCAUSE for making it possible!

-Diane

REMINDER: Proposals will be accepted until August 26 for the October edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/resources/pbvs/submit-a-proposal

Important Details: Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations. Videos should focus on a timely topic or a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported at CNI in the past. We recommend that these videos run no more than 15-20 minutes, though longer presentations may occasionally make sense. Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a guide for contextualization. Their availability will be announced on CNI’s listserv, website, and social media. No more than 12 pre-recorded project briefings will be accepted for each edition; we will issue calls for proposals approximately every two to three months. More information is available on the CNI website and the second edition (July 2022 ) is now available. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!

-Paige Pope, CNI Communications Coordinator

The US National Institutes of Health is presenting the Lindberg-King Lecture and Scientific Symposium: Science, Society and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD. This will run online all day on September 1, 2022. The session will also be recorded and available for later viewing.

The late Dr, Donald Lindberg was the visionary director of the National Library of Medicine for many years, and was a great leader in biomedical informatics. He also played a key role in establishing the US Federal Government's High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program. Lindberg received CNI's Paul Evan Peters award in 2014 (see https://www.cni.org/about-cni/awards/pep-award/2014-donald-lindberg ).

For full details, and to register for the Symposium, see

Lindberg-King Lecture and Scientific Symposium: Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.

Learn about the latest happenings at the world’s largest biomedical library.

The US National Academies is hosting the Endless Frontier Symposium 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years from 12-5pm EDT on September 22, 2022. As I understand it, the event is being broadcast online, but it may also be possible to attend in person at the National Academies in Washington, DC; I also think it's likely that the talks will be made available for subsequent viewing, though I don't know this for sure. For more details and the agenda for the afternoon, and to register, see

Endless Frontier Symposium 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years

On September 22, 2022 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (National Academies), in collaboration with the Kavli Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Issues in Science and Technology, will host the “Endless Frontier Symposium 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years.” This symposium is a follow up to the February 2020 symposium and will bring together experts and leaders from across the world to consider transformations needed from...

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Proposals are now being accepted for the next edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. More information about this year-round program is available on the CNI website and the second edition (July 2022) is now available.

Pre-recorded project briefing videos should focus on a timely topic or on a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported at CNI in the past. In general, we recommend that these videos run no more than 15-20 minutes in length, though longer presentations may occasionally make sense; we leave this decision to the discretion of presenters.

Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.

Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a guide for contextualization. Their availability will be announced on CNI’s listserv, website, and social media outlets.

EDUCAUSE has just issued a new report in its Horizon series, focusing specifically on institutional data and data analytics in higher education. See

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Ithaka S+R has just issued a really valuable report titled "The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems", authored by Oya Rieger, Roger Schoenfeld and Liam Sweeney, funded by a grant from the US Institute for Museum and Library Studies. This is the kind of broad landscape survey that we very badly need as we seek to understand priorities and strategies for digital preservation; it's also extremely helpful in that it sheds considerable light on the roles that commercial preservation services are taking on in this landscape, which I do not believe has been much analyzed. The report is here:

The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems - Ithaka S+R

In August 2020, with funding from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), Ithaka S+R launched an 18-month research project to examine and assess the sustainability of these third-party digital preservation systems. In addition to a broad examination of the landscape, we more closely studied eight systems: APTrust, Archivematica, Arkivum, Islandora, LIBNOVA, MetaArchive, Samvera and Preservica. This report details research investigating the effectiveness, durability, and sustainabili...

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Edition Guide Coalition for Networked Information Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series July 2022

Welcome to the second edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series intended to provide timely reports on projects, events, and other initiatives or issues of importance to the community. This guide contextualizes the video collection, which reflects CNI’s ongoing programmatic interests and ongoing challenges in digital information, including changing research methods, the evolution of scholarly communication, the urgency of digital preservation, and more.

Members of the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) project, a rapid-response digital humanities project focused on archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites at risk of being lost, have shared a fascinating account of their work. In Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online & Rapid-Response Digital Humanities , project participants Quinn Dombrowski, Alex Gil, and Anna Rakityanskaya describe how SUCHO builds on earlier socially-engaged digital humanities work while facing new challenges around web archiving in unstable circumstances. The presentation brings together several perspectives: SUCHO co-founder Dombrowski offers an overview of the work and evolving situation, Rakityanskaya describes project components and her own experience as a volunteer, and Gil discusses previous rapid-response projects.

Also focusing on digital cultural heritage preservation, Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) at Age 18 provides an update to a fall 2020 project briefing. dLOC is a collaborative digital library by, from, and for Caribbean libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations. In 2021, after facing various challenges, dLOC released updated bylaws, launched its first mobile-responsive patron interface, split its website into three systems, and planned its first all-virtual partner meeting. The briefing takes stock and maps a future revitalization project funded by Mellon Foundation.

The most recent volume in the Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals series, titled "Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing", is available anas an open-access download at

Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing

What is the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of scholarly communication? What impact does AI have on the practices and strategies of publishers, libraries, information technology companies, and researchers? What exactly is AI and what are those in the realm of scholarly communication actually thinking about it and doing with it? This Charleston Briefing seeks to provide some answers to these very important questions, offering both general essays on AI and more specific ...

The relatively short volume, edited by Ruth Pickering and Matthew Ismail, is a series of essays; these are very accessible and focus on the ways that AI may change the work of libraries and publishers (and to a lesser extent, the work of researchers and scholars more broadly), rather than the details of AI technologies themselves.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

As part of its ongoing series of reports on the future of the internet, the Pew Research Center has recently released a report titled "The Metaverse in 2040". As is usual with this series, the Pew researchers invited a wide range of people (disclosure: including myself) to reflect on several questions, and basically have compiled and organized these responses, and extracted some key themes, views and predictions; the report also quotes extensively from the responses Pew received. The report can be found here:

The Metaverse in 2040 | Pew Research Center

Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive “metaverse.” They expect that augmented- and mixed-reality enhancements will become more useful in people’s daily lives. Many worry that current online problems may be magnified if Web3 development is led by those who built today’s dominant web platforms.

The use of the term "Metaverse" in the report title is unfortunate, in my view, as the report really deals very broadly with the prospective evolution of immersive environments and user interfaces and various types of AR and VR technologies and how this connects up with today's online experiences. I'd urge you to have a look at the page above to get a sense of the scope of the Pew study.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The LD4 2022 Linked Data Conference, "Linking Global Knowledge", is taking place virtually July 11-15, 2022 (yes, that's next week, sorry to share this so late). Registration is free. The conference runs around 9am-2pm EDT daily. I am unclear about whether or when recordings will be available, but the LD4 conferences have made them available for previous conferences. The conference web site is at

2022 LD4 Conference

If you aren't already registered, go to Sched.com to log in or sign up and register for the event.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm delighted to share this call for participation with the CNI community. CNI has been tracking the work of the Sourcery program since it's inception, and has had several presentations on this important work during the pandemic (see our website for video recordings); hopefully we'll have a further update at our December member meeting. I'd urge CNi member institutions to seriously consider participating in this testing program; I think this is an important part of the future of access to special collections and archives. I reproduce the call for participation below.

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The Sourcery team at the University of Connecticut is excited to announce that we are actively looking for archives, repositories, and libraries of all kinds to join us as partners during our testing phase.

Peter Brantley and his collaborators have announced a new conference dealing with next-generation publishing, building on the work of meetings like the Books in Browsers series. For details, see

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There's a report of last year's summit hosted by Brown and Emory on digital publications which has recently been released. See

this is a really interesting look at possible futures for the scholarly monograph.

We'll have a video on this work as part of the next release of CNI video project briefings, which will be released shortly.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just reached a milestone in its effort to establish a set of quantum resistant cryptographic algorithm standards. See

NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms | NIST

Federal agency reveals the first group of winners from its six-year competition.

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CNI-announce readers may remember a December 2021 Virtual Meeting presentation describing the work that JISC had been advancing to develop a new platform for providing access to the primary research record, complementing the existing journal publication system. That presentation can be found at

CNI Fall 2021 Membership Meeting: Octopus: The New Primary Research Record for Science

Alexandra Freeman, Octopus Publishing CIC Watch the Video

At the time of the presentation the system was still under development. At this point the system is going live in prototype. The Octopus team is hosting a free online event on June 29, 4-5pm UK time (11-12am US EDT). For details on the event and to sign up, visit

The OECD has released a useful report on integrity and security in the global research ecosystem; this connects to several recent developments in science nationalism. My thanks to the amazing Gary Price for the heads-up on this (I don't know how he finds all this material!). See

Here's the abstract:

Responsibilities for research integrity and security are distributed across multiple actors in the international research ecosystem. These include, national governments, research funding agencies, research institutions, universities, academic associations, and intergovernmental organisations. This report describes policy initiatives and actions to safeguard national and economic security whilst protecting freedom of enquiry, promoting international research cooperation, and ensuring openness and non-discrimination. It includes examples of actions that are being taking to prevent foreign interference, manage risks, and help ensure trust in science in the future, and offers recommendations to help countries develop effective policies to strengthen research security as part of a broader framework of research integrity.

Educopia is hosting a very interesting virtual symposium (free registration) July 11-12, 2022 (10AM-2PM EDT), This will explore issues around sharing, curating and sustaining research data and related infrastructure. For details see

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, we are delighted to announce the next Designing Libraries conference, to take place at Temple University in Philadelphia. You will have the opportunity to visit the beautiful Charles Library, benefit from the expertise of a wide array of speakers, and interact with colleagues from a variety of professions. More details, including registration information, will be available during the summer. To receive updates about this conference, please subscribe to our email list . Hope you can join us there!

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Emerita Coalition for Networked Information

Hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia, PA

DESIGNING LIBRARIES IX FOR THE 21ST CENTURY November 6–8, 2022 Join us in Philadelphia for Designing Libraries IX, where librarians, architects, planners, designers, information technologists, and others will gather to explore the achievements and challenges of designing libraries and learning spaces for the 21st century. Registration will open this summer.

Today, Ithaka S+R issued a very informative report on academic library acquisition strategies for video and audio materials. This has been a slowly developing crisis prior to the pandemic, and emerged as a massive challenge in supporting the move to online instruction and research during the pandemic; CNI heard a great deal about these problems during our executive roundtables over the past few years. At the most basic level, it frames the profoundly destructive effects of a move from the commerce in objects (perhaps in conjunction with practices such as controlled digital lending) to a licensing regime for digital materials, and provides a very important parallel case study to the unfolding disaster of ebook licensing and libraries.

See

Streaming Media Licensing and Purchasing Practices at Academic Libraries - Ithaka S+R

Researchers have undertaken several important efforts to track how libraries are approaching the streaming media market and troubleshoot the challenges they are encountering, focusing especially on strategies for balancing patron demand with managing costs. Building on those data gathering efforts, this report shares findings from the most comprehensive survey to date of academic library streaming media approaches at four-year institutions in the US and Canada. How do libraries approach the stre...

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