On January 27-29, 2016 CNI joined with the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries to convene a meeting of the leadership of a group of research libraries and university art museums to discuss strategies and agendas for collaboration; the meeting was hosted by the Libraries and the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, with generous support from both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

I'm delighted to announce that the report of this very stimulating meeting, prepared by Jill Deupi and Charles Eckman of the University of Miami, is now available at:

At CNI, we are looking forward to doing further work with our partners to explore and advance the opportunities for collaboration.

For cni-announce subscribers, this is a nice opportunity to have a voice in assisting EDUCAUSE to identify key issues in teaching and learning for higher education. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Hello everyone, As you may know, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has been surveying the community each year since 2011 to identify the key issues in post-secondary teaching and learning. You can review the results of the 2016 survey here.

This year we’d like to involve a wider segment of the teaching and learning community to help us design the survey. Please join us online for one of two 30-minute discussion sessions:

Particularly because of the strategic importance of the National Digital Platform program, I wanted to share this recent announcement from the US Institute of Museum and LIbrary Studies Grant Guidelines for 2017; pre-proposals are due September 4, 2016.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A multi-institutional stakeholder group in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2016 released a milestone document titled "Concordat for Open Research Data", which can be found at:

There is an announcement about the release at:

I wanted to share this announcement from Ivy Anderson at the California Digital Library about the availability of the final "Pay It Forward" study on sustainable models of processing-charge based open access. There was a presentation of interim results at the December 2015 CNI Membership meeting on this work; materials from this can be found at:

CNI Fall 2015 Membership Meeting: Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project

MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis Ivy Anderson, University of California, California Digital Library

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

For those interested in the status of linked data developments in the library world (and a bit beyond) Karen Smith-Yoshamura has just published a D-Lib article documenting the results of her analysis of a survey carried out last year by OCLC Research. The (open access) article is here:

Those at the Spring 2016 CNI membership meeting in San Antonio may recall the presentation that Karen did on this work. There is voice over powerpoint of this at:

CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting: Linked Data Implementations-Who, What and Why?

Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

University of Calgary, North Carolina State University, and CNI are collaborating on the 5th Designing Libraries Conference and we are announcing the program sessions and speakers. We think we have a fantastic line-up. If you are interested in attending, please register soon; these conferences have regularly filled up. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Join Us for the 5th Designing Libraries Conference | September 18-20, University of Calgary

We are pleased to announce that the Program and Speaker Line-Up are now available for the 5th Annual Designing Libraries Conference, co-hosted by North Carolina State University, the Coalition for Networked Information and the University of Calgary.

The fall PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) meeting has been announced: it will take place in New York City on October 26-28. Details below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The PASIG Program Committee is pleased to announce that registration is OPEN for our October 2016 event! For the first time PASIG will be held in New York City, at the Museum of Modern Art, October 26-28. The final program is still being created, but the current version is below. It's shaping up to be an outstanding event, with a wide range of speakers.

I'm delighted to announce that dates have been set for the 12th International Digital Curation Conference. The conference wil take place 20-23 February 2017 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. There will be workshops on Monday 20 February and Thursday 23 February; the main conference will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, 21-22 February.

I'm delighted that CNI will continue to be collaborating with the DIgital Curation Center on this important meeting in 2017. I'll announce further details and the call for papers when they are available. In the interim, please hold the dates!

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm delighted to be able to share this call for participation; note the July 31 deadline for early registration. The provocative conference theme is "Overcoming the LImits of Digital Archives". The workshops include the 1st international workshop on reproducible science.

CNI is once again a supporting organization for this conference.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

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

In Linked Data Implementations-Who, What and Why? Karen Smith-Yoshimura discusses the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers conducted by OCLC Research in 2014 and 2015, summarizing the 2015 survey results: 1) which institutions have implemented or are implementing linked data; 2) what linked data sources institutions are consuming, and why; 3) what institutions are publishing, and why; 4) barriers and advice from the implementers; 5) some changes from respondents who answered both the 2014 and 2015 surveys. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/170617358 YouTube: https://youtu.be/S5zFcNpIYzM

New and Evolving Services for Scholarship presents a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research, as well as a presentation about the evolution cycle of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, as it continuously works to fine-tune its models for faculty and student support. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/171579014 YouTube: https://youtu.be/8Dw7KG636Js

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -An Ocean of Data: A Metadata and DOI Strategy for Large, Dynamic Data about the World’s Oceans https://youtu.be/TcW8hzGp-TE -Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research https://vimeo.com/170618573 -The Future of Organization Identifiers https://youtu.be/1mehVMocV_0 -Rebuilding the Getty Provenance Index as Linked Data https://vimeo.com/167758833 -Text and Data-Mining on Licensed Collections https://youtu.be/I5CjfMsKBM4 -Transformational Online Reference with a Proactive, Context-sensitive Chat System: Using Triggers to Encourage Patrons to Ask Questions https://vimeo.com/166403201 -Scaling Maker Spaces Across the Web: Weaving Maker Space Communities Together to Support Distributed, Networked Collaboration in Knowledge Creation https://vimeo.com/166096019 -Connect. Collaborate. Contribute: A Model for Designing and Building a Research Commons https://youtu.be/-ZUogocY7o4 -Activist Stewardship: The Imperative of Risk in Collecting Cultural Heritage https://vimeo.com/163211057 -Access to DBpedia Versions using Memento and Triple Pattern Fragments https://youtu.be/e1CpQEjYfa8 -Starting a Textbook Revolution: Project Partners On and Beyond Your Campus https://vimeo.com/163210515 -Improving Research Data Sharing and Reuse: Scientists and Repositories https://youtu.be/vG7Wb5BGvgI -Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research https://youtu.be/X8M6ocvEOdE -The Role of Next Generation Libraries in Enhancing Multidisciplinary Research https://vimeo.com/163210455

This week, our friends at the Jisc and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) released their 2015 faculty study conducted by Ithaka S+R on the ways that academics value and use libraries and their services.

Announcement at:

direct link to full report:

Registration is now open for the 2016 Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News conference, which will be hosted by the University of California Los Angeles Library October 13-14, 2016. There is no charge to attend, but space is limited. The Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) is helping to underwrite the conference, which is organized by the Journalism Digital News Archive at the University of Missouri's Reyynolds Journalism Institute.

I had the opportunity to speak at the first in this series of important meetings, in 2014, and learned a great deal there: this is a very hard, complex issue that is of enormous importance to the future of scholarship and of society broadly. I'm looking foward to participating in this follow-on meeting, and hope to see a number of CNI-announce subscribers there.

Information and registration is at:

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News - RJI

October 13–14, 2016 Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News, was held at the UCLA Library. It explored preservation and access of content produced by not only traditional media outlets…

I wanted to share this recent announcement from our friends at the Digital Preservation Coalition on the important and somewhat neglected topic of preserving transactional data.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), UK Data Service and Charles Beagrie Ltd are delighted to release the latest DPC Technology Watch Report 'Preserving Transactional Data' by the DPC's Sara Day Thomson. This report tackles the requirements for preserving transactional data and the accompanying challenges facing companies and institutions that aim to re-use these data for analysis or research, presenting the issues and strategies which emphasize preservation practices that facilitate re-use and reproducibility.

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

An Ocean of Data: A Metadata and DOI Strategy for Large, Dynamic Data about the World’s Oceans describes the decisions and strategy to develop metadata and to assign digital object identifiers (DOIs) to large and complex data sets that are continuously updated. The Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) are working with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a multi-institution, National Science Foundation-funded initiative to monitor the status and health of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/170617358 YouTube: https://youtu.be/TcW8hzGp-TE

Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research summarizes the issues and recommendations that emerged from a meeting of cultural heritage professionals on digital curation in art museums, including the key principles, roles and responsibilities that digital curation should play in art museums, as well as innovative models for internship projects and research that can advance the museum mission and contribute to the implementation of digital curation practices in art museums. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/170618573 YouTube: https://youtu.be/RpodjWNC43U

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -The Future of Organization Identifiers https://youtu.be/1mehVMocV_0 -Rebuilding the Getty Provenance Index as Linked Data https://vimeo.com/167758833 -Text and Data-Mining on Licensed Collections https://youtu.be/I5CjfMsKBM4 -Transformational Online Reference with a Proactive, Context-sensitive Chat System: Using Triggers to Encourage Patrons to Ask Questions https://vimeo.com/166403201 -Scaling Maker Spaces Across the Web: Weaving Maker Space Communities Together to Support Distributed, Networked Collaboration in Knowledge Creation https://vimeo.com/166096019 -Connect. Collaborate. Contribute: A Model for Designing and Building a Research Commons https://youtu.be/-ZUogocY7o4 -Activist Stewardship: The Imperative of Risk in Collecting Cultural Heritage https://vimeo.com/163211057 -Access to DBpedia Versions using Memento and Triple Pattern Fragments https://youtu.be/e1CpQEjYfa8 -Starting a Textbook Revolution: Project Partners On and Beyond Your Campus https://vimeo.com/163210515 -Improving Research Data Sharing and Reuse: Scientists and Repositories https://youtu.be/vG7Wb5BGvgI -Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research https://youtu.be/X8M6ocvEOdE -The Role of Next Generation Libraries in Enhancing Multidisciplinary Research https://vimeo.com/163210455

The Pacific Neighborhood is holding its annual meeting in the United States this year; it will be held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA August 16-18. i'm thrilled to be one of fhe speakers this year; I had the honor of speaking at the founding meeting in 1993 when I was at the University of California and have spoken at several of the meetings in the intervening years. This is a consistently interesting meeting with some fascinating speakers and topics; this year, the speakers include my colleague Michael Buckland from the University of California, Berkeley.

Information on the conference can be found at

PNC

General information on the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium can be found at

I wanted to share the announcement for this conference, which is taking place at the University of Notre Dame Sept 30-Oct 1, 2016. I'm delighted to be doing the opening keynote. My understanding is that registration is free, which is wonderful.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Rigor and Relevance in Scholarly Publishing: New Realities, New Metrics, New Methods and What it Means for You

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is hosting a full day symposium titled "Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What's on the Internet" on June 16, 2016. Full information is here:

As far as I can tell, the event will be recorded but not live-streamed.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Earlier this week the Obama administration issued a new report titled "The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan" as the latest step in its overall big data initiative. You can find the announcement on the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) blog here:

The report itself can be downloaded here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/bigdatardstrategicplan-nitrd_final-051916.pdf

The May 26, 2016 issue of Nature has a very interesting report on a survey that they conducted on scientific reproducibility, as well as an editorial. Both of these are available online without a paywall.

See

for the editorial, and the main article can be found at: