This upcoming meeting will be of interest to the CNI-announce readership.

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This year’s Force11 Conference will focus on “Changing the Culture” as a theme to guide these discussions. It is intended to create new partnerships and collaborations and to support implementation of ideas generated at the conference and in the FORCE11 working groups. With a focus on dialogue rather than monologues, on diversity both on stage and in the audience, and with a program geared towards turning past experiences with and future visions for scholarly communication into concrete next steps, the FORCE2017 Conference aims to contribute its fair share to changing the scholarly communication landscape. Check out the line-up of Keynote Speakers and topics on the website, www.force2017.org.

The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) conference in Oxford, UK September 11-13. Over 150 practitioners and vendors in digital preservation from all over the world are expected. The PASIG is focused on collegial discussion on the practical aspects and best practices in this field. The registration page, agenda, and list of sponsors can be found at

The conference Early Bird Special price of £150 ends on August 18. First day-only registration for the Preservation 101 session is also available for £75.

Past conference material may also be viewed at the main PASIG website

This new report from our colleagues at JISC in the UK will be of interest to CNI-announce readers. A blog post giving a bit of background on the report, which explores new developments in Academic-led publishing and the University Press Landscape, and has a pointer to the report proper.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Designing Libraries conference, to be held at Hunt Library at North Carolina State University on September 17-19, 2017. Please see details below. CNI is very pleased to co-sponsor this conference with NCSU and the University of Calgary. There is a cap on registration so I encourage you to register soon if you're interested. --Joan Lippincott

“Designing Libraries” returns to the NCSU Libraries Annual conference considers the future of library spaces and services

The NCSU Libraries will host Designing Libraries 6, an annual conference that gathers librarians, architects, planners, designers, and information technologists to discuss the challenges and achievements of designing libraries and learning centers for the twenty-first century. This will be the third time the NCSU Libraries has hosted the conference.

North Carolina State University has launched a Mellon-funded project for visualizing digital scholarship in libraries and learning spaces. See below the call for proposals for institutions interested in participating in the new initiative.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

Call for Proposals Grant: Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces Award amount: $40,000 Funder: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lead institution: North Carolina State University Libraries Due date: 13 August 2017 Notification date: 15 September 2017 Website: https://immersivescholar.org Contact: immersivescholar@ncsu.edu immersivescholar@ncsu.edu Twitter: @ImmersivScholar

MIT has announced the 2017 Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE), which will take place October 27-28, 2017 at MIT. I was lucky to be able to attend two of the earlier conferences in this series (2014 and 2015), both of which I found to be very interesting. See

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The dates have been set for the 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole conference, the fifth in a series of excellent conferences (I have been fortunate to be able to attend several) dealing with the critical issue of how we can preserve our news media in the digital age. It is now open both for registration and for session proposals. See

Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 - RJI

November 15–16, 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole 2017: Saving Online News was held at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco. Speakers, panelists and attendees explored solutions to the most…

The conference will take place on November 16-17, 2017 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California.

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Dear cni-announce subscribers: Those of you interested in trends in academic libraries today may wish to register for this free webinar. The speakers represent selected authors from a new book, edited by Yale's Todd Gilman. They'll talk about a range of issues from their various perspectives. (Disclosure: my daughter, Sarah Lippincott, formerly with the Library Publishing Coalition, will speak about scholarly communication issues; we co-authored the chapter on that topic.) -Joan Lippincott, CNI

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The UK Open Research Data Task Force has just released a report looking at the Research Data Infrastructure Landscape in the UK and beyond. This will be of interest to many readers of CNI-announce. You can find material about the task force and a link to the report here:

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We're sharing this opportunity with cni-announce subscribers; you may be interested or know of someone interested in becoming the next editor of the LITA journal Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL). -- Joan Lippincott, CNI

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of editor of Information Technology And Libraries (ITAL), the flagship publication of the Library Information Technology Association (LITA).

LITA seeks an innovative, experienced editor to lead its top-tier, open access journal with an eye to the future of library technology and scholarly publishing. The editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for an additional three years. Duties include: Chairing the ITAL Editorial Board Managing the review and publication process: Soliciting submissions and serving as the primary point of contact for authors Assigning manuscripts for review, managing review process, accepting papers for publication Compiling accepted and invited articles into quarterly issues Liaising with service providers including the journal publishing platform and indexing services Marketing and promoting the journal Participating as a member of and reporting to the LITA Publications Committee Some funding for editorial assistance plus a $1,500/year stipend are provided.

Posting on behalf of Patrick Yott, at Northeastern University Libraries, who is seeking participation in a very interesting project to promote inclusive and ethical practices in information systems. There is a link to the project website for more information.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

The Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University is pleased to announce an IMLS-funded national forum on "Design for Diversity": a public conversation that focuses on constructing a collaborative pedagogical toolkit to encourage inclusive and ethical practices in information sciences and system design.

This IMLS grant will support a series of public events and working meetings on the ways in which information systems embody and reinforce cultural norms, and ask how we can design systems that account for diverse cultural materials and ways of knowing. The end results will be a teaching and learning toolkit for cultural heritage practitioners in systems design which will better inform both future work and the education and professional development of new practitioners.

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in Chicago, CNI's Joan Lippincott will participate in the ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Group panel Advocating for Resources for Digital Scholarship Centers along with Harriet Hemmasi of Brown University, Toby Graham of the University of Georgia, and Meris Mandernach of The Ohio State University. The event will take place on Saturday, June 24, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Hilton - Stevens Meeting Center, Salon A-1.

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New videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting are now available:

-Building a Deeper Bench: Training Students to Provide Digital Scholarship Support, Joe M. Williams (UNC Chapel Hill) This video highlights one new way that University of North Carolina Libraries services are enabling pedagogical and curricular change: by training Library student employees to provide substantial digital scholarship support. This initiative provides students with a hands-on work experience, engages them in new types of research, and develops their skills with emerging tools and practices. It also allows the Library’s many digital scholarship services to scale more readily, providing librarians with more time to engage with researchers on larger, complex projects and questions. YouTube: https://youtu.be/-2jOGeZSTUU Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/220321311

-Software Carpentry in the Library: Partnering to Give Researchers Needed Technical Skills, Sarah Clayton & Carl Grant (University of Oklahoma) Major grant-funded projects may be able to hire someone to provide basic programming and data management skills, services that have become invaluable for creating reproducible research services, but the majority cannot. Recognizing this need, the University of Oklahoma Libraries has partnered with Software Carpentry, a non-profit foundation that offers two-day, hands-on workshops on basic programming skills designed to help researchers automate and track their research processes. Each workshop is taught by library staff including experts in data management, informatics, and digital scholarship, which has provided them with a better understanding of local researchers’ needs. YouTube: https://youtu.be/mCjlgzOm6k8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/220344798

Also from this meeting, released previously:

We are pleased to announce that the following working group paper, a collaboration between the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) and CNI is now available:

Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning A Joint ECAR/CNI Working Group Publication https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/5/building-capacity-for-digital-humanities-a-framework-for-institutional-planning

A growing number of researchers in the humanities are using computational tools and methods that are more typically associated with social and scientific research. These tools and techniques enable researchers to pursue new forms of inquiry and new questions and bring more attention to—and cultivate broader interest in—traditional humanities and humanities data. This paper outlines a practical framework for capacity building to develop institutional digital humanities support for IT staff, librarians, administrators, and faculty with administrative responsibilities.

The working group chairs, Quinn Dombrowski (University of California, Berkeley) and Joan Lippincott (CNI) will also be presenting on the paper and how it can be used at the Digital Humanities 2017 conference this August (see https://dh2017.adho.org/ for more information).

Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-Is the Researcher Human? Is the Librarian? Bots, Conversational User Interfaces, and Virtual Research Assistants, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (UIUC), Jason Griffey (Harvard)), Emily King (College of Southern Nevada), Michael Schofield (LibUX) Information seeking, retrieval, analysis, and decision-making are often discussed as human activities; however, increasingly humans rely on automation, technology surrogates, and artificial intelligence for these activities. Bots and conversational user interfaces are beginning to emerge as service surrogates in libraries. As these trends grow, libraries and information providers face questions that will change practices while potentially expanding opportunities for services. This video explores the implications of these emerging technologies and their applications for libraries and information providers. YouTube: https://youtu.be/tAAFBm9nkMg Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/219138916

-A Linked Data Approach for Humanities Data, Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University) & Jaap Geraerts (University College London) The Archaeology of Reading team returns to CNI to discuss the use of linked data models and protocols to connect the various data in their innovative digital research environment, developed to research the reading practices of two prominent sixteenth century scholars. In this video, they describe the use of linked data models and protocols to connect data, facilitating study of the scholars’ pathways through content, and they explain how the systematic progression of supporting increasingly complex scholarly use cases represents an important exemplar for levering extensible, common infrastructure across a diverse range of humanities data. YouTube: https://youtu.be/CbW0hjGjjxM Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/218811909

Also from this meeting, released previously:

A reminder that registration is open for the ETD2017 Symposium, which CNI's Clifford Lynch will keynote. You'll also find detail on the program from the conference invitation web page (below). --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is open for the ETD2017 Symposium. The Early Bird discount rate of $199 ($99 for developing nations) ends on May 31st. The hotel conference rate is $179 per night (includes breakfast). Complete registration information is available online. ETD2017, the 20th international symposium on electronic theses and dissertations will be held August 7 – 9, 2017 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will be hosted by George Mason University with additional support from Washington Research Library Consortium members and co-organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA). ETD2017 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), institutional repositories, graduate students and scholarly communications. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations and encourage the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities as well as to provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD programs. For more information about the program visit our conference invitation Web page. Before, during and after the conference you can enjoy and experience the many facets of Washington, DC. For tour and entertainment ideas visit our Welcome to Washington, DC Webpage. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn more and share your experiences with colleagues at ETD2017! To register visit our registration Web page. We hope to see you in Washington, DC at ETD2017. Kind Regards, ETD2017 Conference Planning Committee

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Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-To the Rescue of the Orphans of Scholarly Communication, Herbert Van de Sompel and Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael L. Nelson (Old Dominion University) Scholars have started using a wide variety of online portals which exist outside of the established scholarly publishing system (experiment.org, SlideShare, etc.) to conduct aspects of their research and to convey research results. Whereas initiatives such as LOCKSS and Portico have emerged to make sure that the output of the established scholarly publishing system gets archived, no comparable efforts exist for scholarly artifacts deposited in these online platforms. This video describes how these scholarly orphans could be archived. YouTube: https://youtu.be/_OInNoQxpTQ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/218627896

-Collaborating to Digitize Paleontological Collections at the University of Wyoming, Chad Hutchens, University of Wyoming Academic libraries and museums are increasingly collaborating on digitization, metadata aggregation, and data management to offer access to objects that rarely see the light of day in many small museums. The University of Wyoming Libraries and the UW Geological Museum have been working together to make physical objects (largely vertebrate fossils) available in 3D formats to anyone with an internet connection. YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xxi6iIFcKno Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/218636796

Also from this meeting, released previously:

In May 2016 I was fortunate to be able to attend most of a symposium sponsored by the Computer and Telecommunications Science Board (CSTB) of the National Academies that dealt with society's ability to change out cryptographic algorithms in the networked infrastructure (think public key cryptography (PKI) here, which underpins all kinds of fundamental technologies like SSL/TLS). This eye-opening and disturbing (at least for me) discussion was largely driven by the potential (though controversial and complicated) not-too-distant emergence of quantum computing, which might well put much of the current PKI at risk, and the prospects for dealing with it. If this is not on your radar screen for the 5-20 year future (and the big time range uncertainty is part of the problem) it should be, in my opinion.

The report from this symposium has is now available. There's a free PDF download. It's at

Cryptographic Agility and Interoperability

In May 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop on Cryptographic Agility and Interoperability. Speakers at the workshop discussed the history and practice of cryptography, its current challenges, and its future possibilities. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Background on the workshop is at

Ithaca has issued a very nice report authored by Dale Askey and Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe titled "Finding the Way from the Margins to the Middle: Library Information Technology, Leadership and Culture" which follows up and expands upon their presentation at the recent CNI membership meeting. The report can be found at:

Finding a Way from the Margins to the Middle - Ithaka S+R

Given the number and variety of significant information technology projects led or supported by research libraries, one could incorrectly assume that

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-Virtual Reality in the Trenches: Addressing the Preservation Challenges of Virtual Reality for Scholarship, Zack Lischer-Katz and Matt Cook, University of Oklahoma This video presents work being conducted at the University of Oklahoma to develop strategies and best practices for addressing the digital preservation and data curation needs associated with adopting the use of virtual reality (VR) and 3D digital assets in academic research and instruction. YouTube: https://youtu.be/fV3Zqd5wvwA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/217004710

-Online Scientific Reference Sample Collections and Shared Linked Data for Heritage Science and Related Disciplines, Fenella France, Library of Congress This talk explores how developments for linked scientific data generated on heritage materials have advanced within the Library of Congress Preservation Research and Testing Division. The group has engaged with colleagues in the Research Data Alliance and internationally to build upon existing standards and authorities, allowing greater credence for humanities and cultural heritage linked data. YouTube: https://youtu.be/nTv1uSMRbEs Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/216696620

Also from this meeting, released previously: