Proposals are now being solicited for the 2020 Web Archiving Conference (WAC); the program will undoubtedly be of interest to many within the CNI community. See below for more information and for links.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

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This draft guidance will be of interest to the CNI community, and this is an important opportunity to make comments and suggestions to the National Institutes of Health.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

NIH Requests Public Comment on a Draft Policy for Data Management and Sharing and Supplemental Draft Guidance

Over the past year I've been serving as an advisor to this important next-generation infrastructure planning initiative, and I wanted to share the announcement about the recently-issued action plan that has come out if it with the CNI community.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

A reminder that the deadline for nominations for the Paul Evan Peters Award is THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 8. The award recognizes notable and lasting impact related to information technology and the creation and use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Previous award recipients: Herbert Van de Sompel Donald A.B. Lindberg Christine L. Borgman Daniel E. Atkins Paul Ginsparg Brewster Kahle Vinton Gray Cerf Tim Berners-Lee

More information is at www.cni.org/go/pep-award/ .

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

The Knowledge Exchange is a joint undertaking of some six European organizations, including JISC in the UK and DFG in Germany (both CNI members). They've done a great deal of work on changes in the scholarly communication system, and have recently published a book examining the economics of the transition to open scholarship that I think will be of interest to many in the CNI community. This can be found at

Below, more details on this work.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

This conference (the second in a series, the first having been held in Norway last December) will, I think, definitely be of interest to the CNI community. There are many timely and important topics on the agenda here. Note that the second day is quite hands-on and technical.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Registration is now open for Fantastic Futures 2019, the 2nd International Conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Join us December 4-6 at Stanford University for three days of study and community building. This conference is a forum for in-depth discussion of the effects of these new technologies, demonstrations of work already underway, and workshops to help increase AI literacy across our organizations.

This conference, sponsored by University of San Diego, is a lively venue to participate in with your contributions to a wide array of topics. Note the deadline for proposals is Nov. 22, 2019. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

Call for Proposals : Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020

The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego is accepting proposals for its full day conference on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. We welcome proposals from a wide variety of organizations, including colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions.

Our friends at JISC have commissioned a very interesting research project being conducted at DEMOS which is investigating the implications of a group of technologies related to artificial intelligence and robotics for the work of researchers, including the ability to automate at least some classes of research work. The project is called Research 4.0: Research in the Age of Automation. This month they issued a very thought-provoking Interim Report with their initial findings and a discussion of the next steps in their investigation. The report is here:

https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Jisc-OCT-2019-2.pdf

A JISC Blog posting discussing this work is here

In May 2016 I shared the report of a National Academies workshop dealing with issues arising from the need to transition the internet to cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to quantum computing. This is a very large, complex undertaking. Very recently, the Computing Community Consortium issued a report of a workshop that they held earlier in 2019 that focuses on research challenges involved in the migration (as opposed to work going on under the auspices of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) that addresses the selection of quantum resistant cryptographic algorithms themselves).

A web page summarizing the findings of the workshop and a link to the full report can be found at:

A direct link to the report is here

The 2020 Library Publishing Forum will take place in Worcester, MA, on May 4-6; proposals are being accepted through Nov. 15th. CNI is pleased to serve as a Strategic Affiliate of the sponsoring organization, the Library Publishing Coalition. More information is available below, and at the event website: https://librarypublishing.org/library-publishing-forum/

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

—— —— Library Publishing Forum CFP and Scholarships The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition , but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend. The 2020 Forum will be held in Worcester, MA, May 4-6, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Call for Proposals

A call for proposals is now open! In addition to the full sessions and individual presentations formats we have used for the last couple of years, we are also welcoming two new proposal formats: poster talks and experimental sessions. We warmly encourage proposals from first-time presenters and representatives of small and emerging publishing programs. Proposals may address any topic of interest to the library publishing community and all disciplines. However, with the conference being hosted by the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), we extend a special invitation to sessions exploring projects or topics related to STEM publishing and the Open Science Movement. The proposal deadline is November 15th.

I am delighted to share this call for nominations for the Paul Evan Peters Award. The Committee would welcome your nominations, which do not need to be elaborate. Details below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 8, 2019

CNI’s Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott will be speaking at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2019 in Chicago, IL, to report on a series of roundtable discussions CNI has hosted over the past year to explore the changing character and purposes of library-IT collaborations. In the EDUCAUSE session they will report on findings from these events, which included discussions on the research enterprise, privacy, accessibility, data governance, and teaching, learning and student success.

Session Title: “Opportunities and Mandates for New Collaborations by Libraries and Information Technology” Date: Thursday, Oct. 17 Time: 9:30a.m. - 10:15a.m. CT Location: W375b, Level 3

More information is at https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/2019/agenda/opportunities-and-mandates-for-new-collaborations-by-libraries-and-information-technology

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

Proposals are now being accepted for Archiving 2020 in Washington, DC, May 18-20; submission deadline is Nov. 1. Details are available at www.imaging.org/archiving.

CNI is pleased to serve again this year as a supporter of this important event, focusing on the digitization, preservation, and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials, including documents, photographs, books, paintings, videos, and born digital works.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

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I'm delighted to announce the plenary sessions for the December 2019 CNI Member Meeting.

As is traditional at our December meetings, I'll take the opening plenary to survey developments and report some of the findings of our recent work, and to introduce the 2019-2020 CNI Program Plan. We will also hear briefly from Joan Lippincott, our soon-to-be-emerita Associate Executive Director.

I'm really thrilled to announce Professor Kate Eichhorn from the New School will be our closing keynote speaker. This last summer, Kate published a fantastic book titled "The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media"; this crystalized a number of trends and developments that I had been watching closely and put them together in some unexpected and extremely insightful ways. The implications -- for the public at large, for our students, for the evolution of social norms, and for memory institutions -- are profound, and I was really excited when she agreed to come and explore these issues with us. You can find her abstract and bio on our web site at

CNI Fall 2019: Plenary Sessions

CNI Fall 2019 Membership Meeting December 9-10, 2019 | Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC Opening Plenary Clifford Lynch Executive Director, CNI Closing Plenary Kate Eichhorn Associate Professor o…

I'm delighted to announce that registration has opened for the 15th International Digital Curation Conference, which will take place early next year. The full announcement is below. CNI has been proud to be a collaborating organization with the IDCC conference since the beginning.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

"Collective Curation: the many hands that make data work"

Over the summer I wrote a short and relatively non-technical piece looking at what machine learning might have to offer to archives and special collections. This has just come out, and can be found here

The International Council on Archives, which invited the piece, has also translated it into French, for those who prefer that language.

Recently, my friend Dan Cohen of Northeastern University has also looked at very similar topics in his wonderful newsletter Humane Ingenuity. See

Over the past few months I have had a number of long, wonderful conversations with CLIR Presidential Fellow Carol Mandel about her fascinating work on born-digital preservation at scale, which turns out to be very closely related to thinking I've been doing over the past decade about stewardship in the digital world. Carol has now issued the first chapter of her analysis, which frames a series of questions for discussion by the community. The paper can be found at

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Carol will be leading a discussion on this at the DLF Fall Forum. She and I will also be doing a breakout session on this work at the December CNI Member Meeting.

Comments on this important and insightful work and the questions it raises are welcome, and should be sent to comments@clir.org

The submission deadline for CNI’s fall 2019 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on Dec. 9-10 in Washington, DC.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than Monday, October 7. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2019/project-briefing-proposals-f19

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, Nov. 8: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2019/registration-accommodations-f19

More information is at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2019 . Follow along: #cni19f

Registration is open for the PAGES VI Workshop, which will take place in Edmonton, Canada, on Oct. 4, 2019. This free all-day workshop will explore the topic of reading under surveillance, and is open to anyone who works with readers in any capacity; advance registration is required. Among the speakers will be CNI director Clifford Lynch, who will discuss the broader implications of surveillance.

More information, including a link to registration, is available at http://pagesworkshop.com/ .

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

The "Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration" project at the University of Calgary has produced some valuable findings. This is an opportunity for others to benefit from their experience and that of additional institutions. This symposium, a dissemination activity of the project, will include presentations, panel sessions, and opportunities for small group discussions. Registration is now open (see links below) and is expected to fill very quickly.

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration Is Open

Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise