The Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society, an interdisciplinary working group established in 2014, has just this week issued a report titled "Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society" summarizing and synthesizing much of their thinking over the past two years.

The report can be downloaded here:

and there are many links to the Council's other outputs, as well as background about the project.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just recently issued a call for community input on Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, with a particular interest on the role and placement of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division and its programs within NSF. For details see:

Seeking Community Input on Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

The call runs through the end of June.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The invaluable SIgnal DIgital Preservation blog from the Library of Congress has a great summary post from guest contributor Julia Kim (from the LC American Folklife Center) describing the Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing held by the Radcliff Center for Advanced Study at Harvard on April 4-5, 2016 that I think will be interesting reading for many CNI-announce subscribers. See

The Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing | The Signal

This is a guest post from Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The annual meeting of the Radcliffe Technology Workshop (April 4th – April 5th, #radtech16) brought together historians, (digital) humanists and archivists for an intensive discussion of the “digital turn” and its effect on our work. The …

Clifford Lynch DIrector, CNI

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

Despite excellent work undertaken by existing players, there is no consistently adopted, open, community-driven infrastructure providing organization identifiers. The Future of Organization Identifiers provides an overview of current and potential uses of organization identifiers, current state of the art, a summary of topical reports and working papers, and a review of a draft proposal for a ‘minimum viable product’ to serve community needs. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/166818858 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1mehVMocV_0

The Getty Provenance Index records the ownership and sale of artwork as documented in auction house sales catalogs, archival inventories, dealer stock books, and listings of public collections, with some records reaching as far back as the 16th century. In the mid 1980’s, the Getty converted the print publication to an online database, and now, 30 years later, the system of six heterogeneous flat file databases that make up the Provenance Index will be mapped to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) and released as Linked Open Data. Rebuilding the Getty Provenance Index as Linked Data describes the project background, reveals some of the work in progress, and outlines the project roadmap. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/167758833 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HRbP4zjqPM

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Last week CNI and ARL held a workshop Planning a Digital Scholarship Center, and presentation slides from our terrific roster of speakers are now available at: https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/dscw16/program-2016

Sessions included such topics as goals & strategies, models/types of centers, staffing, technologies, physical spaces, partnering with faculty on teaching and research, and products of new types of scholarship.

Several of the sessions were conducted as panels with some specific questions for speakers, and therefore some of the presentation materials are brief. In addition, the workshop included a number of table discussion sessions, which are not represented on the website but some details on those discussions will be included in the report that we will issue about the workshop.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Many of your institutions have active electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs, but you may still seek information on best practices in areas such as file formats, metadata, and version control. Our colleagues at Educopia have facilitated the development of ETD Guidance Briefs and are inviting the community to review and comment on these items by June 30, 2016.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings,

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I am sharing the announcement below, by University of Calgary, the host of the next Designing Libraries Conference. CNI is proud to be a co-sponsor of this conference series, which highlights innovations and new kinds of programs at libraries. This year we will have two preconferences to choose from -- one on Digital Displays for Visualization, Engagement, & Learning and one on Innovations in Teaching & Learning Spaces at the New Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, a building that opened after the last Designing Libraries conference was held at Calgary. The conference will include a reception and tour at the newly opened and spectacular building - the National Music Centre - in downtown Calgary and a presentation on the Calgary Public Library, a Snohetta-designed project, which is currently under construction. We will also get an advance look at the Riddell Library and Learning Centre, which will open in October, 2016, at nearby Mount Royal University.

The main program will include sessions on fostering experimentation, aligning the library organization with facility transformations, new staff roles, and digital research platforms, among others.

The Designing Libraries conferences generally fill up quickly so I encourage you to register soon if you plan to attend.

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

Expensive electronic licensed content promises easy access to vast quantities of digitized material, but its use is restricted by both copyright and licensing agreements. Text and Data-Mining on Licensed Collections includes a discussion and demonstration of Robots Reading Vogue, a project of the Yale University Library DHLab, which is an effort to build digital humanities tools on top of a restricted archive, allowing exploration and experimentation on 400,000 pages of Vogue magazine while still respecting copyright. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166401139 YouTube: https://youtu.be/I5CjfMsKBM4

At a time when many libraries continue to experience low reference activity, the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries have seen a 489% increase in chat usage from 2013 (4,600 questions) to 2015 (27,000 questions), after implementing Zopim, a proactive, context-sensitive chat system. Transformational Online Reference with a Proactive, Context-sensitive Chat System: Using Triggers to Encourage Patrons to Ask Questions provides information about the configuration and management of the system and the changes in chat staffing to support the high-demand service. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166403201 YouTube: https://youtu.be/P27-3z3cCA0

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

In conjunction with the spring 2016 CNI meeting, the University of North Texas (UNT) hosted a Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit. This meeting attracted thought leaders from a variety of sectors, including universities, federal agencies, and associations. While I was only able to participate in the first part of the meeting, I was impressed by the thoughtful comments by participants and by the depth of knowledge represented in the room. Longterm preservation of federal information of all types -- publications, websites, social media, etc. -- is a very large problem, and must be addressed in order to create a full record of our society for future generations. The report includes recommendations for future work, including developing an environmental scan and a registry.

The report of the summit is now available at http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc826639

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I am pleased to announce that a report of two sessions of a CNI Executive Roundtable on Supporting Digital Humanities is now available at https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CNI-SupportDH-exec-rndtbl.report.F14.pdf

In this report, we summarize the state of play of support for digital humanities at many of our member institutions. We were pleased that we had representatives from many types of higher education institutions and individuals representing many kinds of roles - library administrators, technologists, faculty, and others, so that we had a variety of perspectives on the topics discussed. The report describes some of the models employed at various campuses and explores some of the key issues that arose, such as types of staff expertise needed, lifecycle support for projects, and the problems of acceptability of some forms of digital scholarship outputs in promotion and tenure processes. The roundtables were held at the December, 2014 CNI membership meeting.

CNI has had an ongoing interest in supporting digital scholarship. Additional resources on our website include a report and program descriptions from a Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends and Good Practice Workshop held in spring, 2014 https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-centers-cni-workshop and a number of videos and presentations on this topic from our membership meetings - see, for example the items listed in the category "digital humanities" on our website: https://www.cni.org/category/topics/digital-humanities

Last week, to what seems to be relatively little fanfare, the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Academies released a report from an NSF-funded study titled "Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure".

There is a press release here

News | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

and the report (also linked from the press release) is available as a free PDF download from the NAS at:

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

The Ohio State University Libraries was determined from early on to create a suite of co-located services that, taken together, would promote interdisciplinary team work, showcase output, and highlighting impact. In Connect. Collaborate. Contribute: A Model for Designing and Building a Research Commons, Alison Armstrong highlights how creating a network of partners, integrating feedback, and exploring use cases drove the iterative development and deployment of services, spaces, and technology that facilitate purposeful discovery and innovation. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166096019 YouTube: https://youtu.be/-ZUogocY7o4

In Scaling Maker Spaces Across the Web: Weaving Maker Space Communities Together to Support Distributed, Networked Collaboration in Knowledge Creation, Rick Luce and Carl Grant of the University of Oklahoma describe Innovation @ the Edge, an initiative that develops tools, technology and methodologies to bring collaborators together across geographically distributed innovation spaces in order to support collaboration, leverage expertise and support agile methods of new knowledge creation through the use of virtual reality, instructional technology, websites, and shared community building. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166081979 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ARcnn4gpFtg

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

Dear CNI Community,

We are sharing with you an exciting development regarding the upcoming OA symposium at the University of North Texas, where newsmaker Alexandra Elbakyan (of Sci-Hub) was recently added to the lineup. Online registration is now closed so see instructions below if you are interested in attending.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

Greetings,

I wanted to share the announcement of the recently-published OCLC Research Report on Organizational Identifiers. This is a very important -- and very hard -- problem that has been getting renewed attention recently in a variety of contexts. For those looking for additional information, I'd note the sessions at the last few CNI meetings, and also the recent workshop held at the Force 11 meeting in Portland in April 2016 as additional resources. CNI will continue to cover developments in this area.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm pleased to announce that OCLC Research has published a new report: Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI.

Dear cni-announce subscribers, The deadline approaches for registration for two excellent conferences -- the Open Access Symposium and the Library Publishing Forum, both held at the University of North Texas in Denton. These conferences are filled with sessions that will provide both inspiration and suggestions for practice.

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

Final reminder: registration for the Open Access Symposium 2016, held in Denton in May 19-20, closes on Saturday. We've got a great lineup of speakers from around the world. Do also consider attending the Library Publishing Forum 2016, an international event held this year in Denton just before the OA Symposium. Registration for that event is separate. Note there's also an option to register for just pre-conference on open educational resources (OER) on May 17.

Hope to see you in Denton next month!

Dear cni-announce subscribers, Those of you interested in learning spaces are likely aware of the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS); this tool can be used both to evaluate existing spaces on campus that you believe need renovation and assist in planning renovated or new learning spaces. The LSRS provides you with a very detailed analysis of a wide range of factors that are involved in making a learning space great. The advisory board encourages your input as they develop version 2.0. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings, to those of you who might be learning space enthusiasts! Your input is requested!

We are just beginning the process of updating the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) to a new version 2.0. Version 1 was published in fall of 2014, and the LSRS team would like to update that version this year.

New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting have been posted:

Activist Stewardship: The Imperative of Risk in Collecting Cultural Heritage examines a central mission challenge for research libraries as they continue to collect and manage contested and controversial parts of the cultural record. This plenary talk was presented by a panel from the University of California, Los Angeles. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/163211057 YouTube: https://youtu.be/NbiDoREVtAI

In Access to DBpedia Versions using Memento and Triple Pattern Fragments, Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Miel Vander Sande (Ghent University) describe their work with Memento, DBpedia (the linked data version of Wikipedia) and the added capabilities of linked data fragments, triple pattern fragments, and HDT. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/163210737 YouTube: https://youtu.be/e1CpQEjYfa8

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

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

Textbook affordability is an issue of growing concern in higher education. Academic libraries, working collaboratively with campus partners, have led the way in program innovation to improve student access to course learning content. Starting a Textbook Revolution: Project Partners On and Beyond Your Campus includes presentations by speakers from three institutions taking strategic approaches to advance the adoption of open educational resources (OER) through partnerships on and beyond their campus. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/163210515 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9_WizSoIptg

In Improving Research Data Sharing and Reuse: Scientists and Repositories, Michael Conlon of the University of Florida reviews and discusses the landscape of scientific data sharing and reuse, and the efforts that may be needed to create a preferable environment: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/163210812 YouTube: https://youtu.be/vG7Wb5BGvgI

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2016 CNI meeting. To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

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

The opening plenary talk, Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research, by Victoria Stodden of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explores how to define and ensure the integrity of the scholarly record in an age of computationally enabled work, focusing especially on the reproducibility of research findings. YouTube: https://youtu.be/X8M6ocvEOdE Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/162823483

In The Role of Next Generation Libraries in Enhancing Multidisciplinary Research, Tom Hickerson and Kathryn Ruddock (U. Calgary), Joan Lippincott (CNI), and Shawna Sadler (Deakin) examine if research libraries are equipped to meet the needs of multidisciplinary research, and they report on a series of focused discussions with researchers during a recent series of workshops. YouTube: https://youtu.be/OGWxAWrlZTc Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/163210455

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2016 CNI meeting. To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

The Library Publishing Coalition's Library Publishing Forum, which takes place May 17-19 at the University of North Texas, has posted its full program. This is a great opportunity to get up to speed with a fast-developing program area for academic libraries. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

The 2016 Library Publishing Forum (May 17-19 at the University of North Texas) is fast approaching!

We have posted our full program, which focuses on the theme of "Amplifying Scholarship" through building robust, innovative, and sustainable library publishing initiatives. Program highlights include keynotes from Cheryl Ball(Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University) and Dan Morgan (Digital Science Publisher at the University of California Press and Publisher of Collabra).