I wanted to share this announcement. CNI is delighted to again be a cooperating organization for this meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

PDA 2016 Registration is open. The PDA 2016 website is http://www.lib.umich.edu/pda2016 or http://www.lib.umich.edu/personal-digital-archiving-2016/registration-and-housing-information.

The PDA 2016 will start May 12 with a Keynote speech by Doug Boyd, from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Special Collections Research Center, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky Libraries. The rest of the day will be filled with Panels and Lighting talks and end with a reception and Poster session. Day two will began with a Keynote speech by Gabriela Redwine of Yale University and author of Personal Digital Archiving Report. The rest of the day is filled with more presentations. The final day May 14, 2016 will be a time for hands on workshops in the computer labs in the University of Michigan Library.

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and is open for comment through February 28.

Dear cni-announce subscribers: Registration is now open to individuals or teams from any institution (it was restricted to those affiliated with ARL or CNI member institutions for the first 2 weeks.) We are near capacity for the workshop; if you are interested in participating, I encourage you to register right away. We will maintain a waiting list once we reach the maximum number of registrants.

We have seen increasing interest in the development of digital scholarship centers, often in academic libraries, in recent years. CNI has been active in featuring sessions about these centers at our membership meetings, and we have published reports and articles on the topic. Our latest initiative is this workshop, which will provide a range of models for developing a digital scholarship center and will provide information on a wide variety of issues to be taken into consideration during planning and early implementation phases. We are very pleased to partner with ARL on this workshop. We expect a lot of interest in this workshop and we do have a limit on the number of attendees.

Please see below for additional information, including a link to the workshop website. Joan Lippincott, CNI

The University of Texas Libraries in Austin is extending a special opportunity, to CNI spring meeting attendees, to tour the newly renovated spaces in UT's Perry-Castañeda Library . More information is below, including a link to RSVP for a tour.

Dear CNI Spring Membership Meeting Attendees, Your colleagues at the University of Texas Libraries in Austin invite you to visit their newly renovated spaces in the Perry-Castañeda Library , including the Learning Commons with active learning classrooms and a media lab and the Scholars Commons with silent study spaces and a data lab. Tours have been organized for Sunday afternoon April 3, 2016. Please follow this link to learn more and RSVP for a tour . If you cannot make it on Sunday but are interested in visiting later in the week, please contact Catherine Hamer hamer@austin.utexas.edu, Associate Director for User Services.

Catherine Hamer Associate Director for User Services University of Texas Libraries The University of Texas at Austin 512-495-4321 hamer@austin.utexas.edu hamer@austin.utexas.edu

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting are due THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 12. Proposals may be submitted online:

CNI Spring 2016: Submit a Proposal

Propose a Project Briefing for the CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting SUBMIT A PROPOSAL DEADLINE: FEB. 12, 2016 About the Briefings Project Briefings (presentations) are the heart of every membersh…

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org diane@cni.org).

Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. The meeting will be held April 4-5, 2016 in San Antonio, TX.

Preservation systems using emulation have recently been deployed for public use by the Internet Archive and the Rhizome Project, and for restricted use by the Olive Archive at Carnegie-Mellon and others. What are the advantages and limitations of current emulation technology, and what are the barriers to more general adoption? David Rosenthal of Stanford University explores these questions in Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/152610618 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9IGyI5B_rJ0

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

-Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Research, and Research Management in Libraries https://youtu.be/L0G9JsPMEXY -Hydra-in-a-Box: Building and Bundling a National Digital Platform https://youtu.be/_YWnzuuypQ4 -The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices (Sanderson) https://youtu.be/2-U-Qd37WgE -New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight (Snydman) https://youtu.be/5HI913kE2dk -Experiences with High Resolution Display Walls in Academic Libraries (Brosz, Ashleigh, Boyer) https://vimeo.com/151911867 -Linked Data for Libraries and Archives: LD4L and Europeana (Kraft, Cramer, Blair) https://vimeo.com/151818388 -Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape (Visconti, Purdue) https://vimeo.com/151657119 -Big Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks (Tijerina and Keller, Data & Society Research Institute) https://vimeo.com/151672242 -The Archaeology of Infrastructure (Choudhury, Johns Hopkins; Geraerts, University College London) https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission (Sallans, COS; Meyers, Notre Dame) https://vimeo.com/149889116 -Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World (Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151 -Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship (Van de Compel, Nelson) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722 -Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation (Clifford Lynch, CNI) https://vimeo.com/149331593 -Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project (Smith, Anderson) https://vimeo.com/149410915 -How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version (Farb, Grappone, Broadwell, Klein) https://vimeo.com/149666124

At the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) conference today, the New Media Consortium (NMC) will launch the latest version of its Horizon Report for higher education. I have found that this report is widely read around the world and can serve as a great discussion starter among information technology professionals, librarians, faculty, and administrators. The report can be freely downloaded from a link on this page: http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-and-educause-learning-initiative-release-the-nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-ed-edition/ Disclosure: I served on this year's advisory group for the report and I am a member of the NMC board. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Samantha Becker, Senior Director, Publications & Communications, NMC 512.445.4200 | samantha@nmc.org

Kristi DePaul, Marketing Manager, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 412.608.7402 | kdepaul@educause.edu

A group of associations in the UK have issued The UK Higher Education Learning Space Toolkit www.ucisa.ac.uk/learningspace I have taken a quick look at most of the sections and believe that many in North America and other regions will find the advice contained here useful. Sections include working in partnership, effective learning by design, evaluation, and many others. Note that the final item on the menu allows you to download the full PDF, and the resource is freely available. The authors state that one of their inspirations was the FLEXspace repository, which I have described in posts and in presentations (http://flexspace.org/ You need an account, which is free, to access FLEXspace.) In addition, the Learning Space Toolkit, hosted at North Carolina State University, is an excellent resource http://learningspacetoolkit.org/ and it also has been very interesting to see some implementations of the Learning Space Rating System http://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/learning-space-rating-system at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative(ELI) annual conference. If you are working on a building or renovation project, you'll want to check out this new resource from the UK. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Dear colleagues

I am writing to announce the publication of the UK Higher Education Learning Space Toolkit: a SCHOMS, AUDE and UCISA collaboration www.ucisa.ac.uk/learningspace

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

As the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has advanced, one of its major challenges has been the lack of effective, widespread tools for stewarding and syndicating digital content. Recently, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $2M to DPLA, Stanford and DuraSpace for the “Hydra-in-a-Box” project to help address this need. Hydra-in-a-Box: Building and Bundling a National Digital Platform provides an in-depth look at the project’s goals, timelines, and early progress. YouTube: https://youtu.be/_YWnzuuypQ4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/153922457

The Data Science Environment (DSE) program provides resources to help universities develop collaborations between researchers, develop tools in data science (DS), and create new career paths for data scientists. In Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Research, and Research Management in Libraries, program members from three partner universities discuss the role of DS in information science, the potential career paths for data scientists in libraries, and the potential amplification of information services (e.g. data curation, institutional repositories, scholarly publishing). YouTube: https://youtu.be/L0G9JsPMEXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149713097

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices (Sanderson) https://youtu.be/2-U-Qd37WgE -New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight (Snydman) https://youtu.be/5HI913kE2dk -Experiences with High Resolution Display Walls in Academic Libraries (Brosz, Ashleigh, Boyer) https://vimeo.com/151911867 -Linked Data for Libraries and Archives: LD4L and Europeana (Kraft, Cramer, Blair) https://vimeo.com/151818388 -Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape (Visconti, Purdue) https://vimeo.com/151657119 -Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks (Tijerina and Keller, Data & Society Research Institute) https://vimeo.com/151672242 -The Archaeology of Infrastructure (Choudhury, Johns Hopkins; Geraerts, University College London) https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission (Sallans, COS; Meyers, Notre Dame) https://vimeo.com/149889116 -Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World (Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151 -Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship (Van de Compel, Nelson) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722 -Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation (Clifford Lynch, CNI) https://vimeo.com/149331593 -Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project (Smith, Anderson) https://vimeo.com/149410915 -How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version (Farb, Grappone, Broadwell, Klein) https://vimeo.com/149666124

The submission deadline for CNI's spring 2015 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on April 4-5 in San Antonio, Texas.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than Friday, February 12. A limited number of proposals are accepted. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2016/s16-submit-a-proposal

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is Thursday, March 3: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2016/s16-registration-accommodations.

Follow this meeting on Twitter: #cni16s

Dear cni-announce subscribers: We have seen increasing interest in the development of digital scholarship centers, often in academic libraries, in recent years. CNI has been active in featuring sessions about these centers at our membership meetings, and we have published reports and articles on the topic. Our latest initiative is this workshop, which will provide a range of models for developing a digital scholarship center and will provide information on a wide variety of issues to be taken into consideration during planning and early implementation phases. We are very pleased to partner with ARL on this workshop. We expect a lot of interest in this workshop and we do have a limit on the number of attendees.

Registration is now open to individuals from ARL and CNI member institutions for Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI/ARL Workshop. General registration opens February 16, 2016. Please see below for additional information, including a link to the workshop website. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI/ARL Workshop May 17-18, 2016 Arlington, VA

Reduced rate early registration closes January 31 for the 11th International Digital Curation Conference in Amsterdam, 22-25 February. I understand there is still good space availability for many of the workshops as well.

The full programme can now be found online at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc16/programme.

This year's keynotes will be delivered by Barend Mons, Professor of BioSemantics and founder of the BioSemantics group at Leiden University Medical School (LUMC) and Susan Halford, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton.

On Tuesday 23 February the programme will feature an Open Data Panel and an interactive afternoon including posters, demonstrations and birds of a feather sessions which will shortly be chosen by conference delegates.

The UK Higher Education Commission has just issued a major report on national strategy for learning analytics and underlying data collection and stewardship, including some consideration of privacy issues.

The report, plus a press release and some pointers to media coverage, can be found here:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Our colleagues at the JISC have issued a call for comments on a set of vision documents dealing with teaching and research. They have a deadline of February 2 for input. See

Some of the material, particularly dealing with research practices, will be of considerable interest to some CNI-announce readers.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Our friends at EDUCAUSE have just released a great series of interviews with several key speakers and attendees from CNI’s December meeting. We’ve put up links to the individual recordings on the meeting homepage (https://www.cni.org/mm/past-meetings/fall-2015 ), where you’ll also find slide decks and direct links to all the videos we’ve released so far (there are a few more of those to come so stay tuned).

You can also access the CNI interviews by going to https://soundcloud.com/educause/tracks , where you’ll find lots of great content by EDUCAUSE.

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

Rob Sanderson of Stanford University presents an assessment of the current BIBFRAME best practices from the Linked Data community by methodically laying out those best practices, discussing the extent to which they are applied in BIBFRAME and describing some of the steps for remediation. The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices is now online: YouTube: https://youtu.be/2-U-Qd37WgE Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/152611387

In New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight, Stanford's Stuart Snydman highlights two community open source software projects: one that enables librarians, curators, and others to easily build Web-based exhibits that showcase digital collections, and another that leverages the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to support comparative and interactive uses of image-based resources across libraries, museums and archives. YouTube: https://youtu.be/5HI913kE2dk Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/152599632

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -Experiences with High Resolution Display Walls in Academic Libraries https://vimeo.com/151911867 -Linked Data for Libraries and Archives: LD4L and Europeana https://vimeo.com/151818388 -Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape (Visconti, Purdue) https://vimeo.com/151657119 -Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks (Tijerina and Keller, Data & Society Research Institute) https://vimeo.com/151672242 -The Archaeology of Infrastructure (Choudhury, Johns Hopkins; Geraerts, University College London) https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission (Sallans, COS; Meyers, Notre Dame) https://vimeo.com/149889116 -Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World (Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151 -Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship (Van de Compel, Nelson) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722 -Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation (Clifford Lynch, CNI) https://vimeo.com/149331593 -Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project (Smith, Anderson) https://vimeo.com/149410915 -How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version (Farb, Grappone, Broadwell, Klein) https://vimeo.com/149666124

Posting on behalf of MacKenzie Smith, UC Davis University Librarian.

Registration in now open for

GAMING METRICS: INNOVATION & SURVEILLANCE IN ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT UC Davis, February 4-5, 2016

For those interested in digital preservation issues, please consider attending this event in Prague. Posting on behalf of PASIG. -Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is open for the next PASIG event, March 9-11, at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague. Note that the attendee cost is 200€ until the end of January and 250€ February 1 on. To view the agenda and register, go tohttp://pasig.schk.sk/wordpress/registration. A list of local hotels is available on the website.

This is a great opportunity for organizations setting up preservation repositories to collaborate and work directly with leaders in the field. The PASIG is focused on 1) addressing practical preservation questions, 2) hearing about best practices and new technologies from global experts, 3) investigating the convergence of on-premise architectures and the Cloud, 4) how to set up, initiate, and audit the metrics of a preservation project, 5) key global project updates, and 6) solution provider and end customer collaboration. PASIG is a highly collaborative and interactive forum and generally attracts a large contingent of new participants.

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

High resolution displays have been an increasing presence in libraries. Experiences with High Resolution Display Walls in Academic Libraries explores how these screens have been integrated to support a variety of research and learning at the University of Calgary, Brown University and North Carolina State University. The talk is now online at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/EivwkNt0gYk Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/151911867

In this 2-part presentation, Dean Krafft of Cornell and Tom Cramer of Stanford provide an update on the Mellon-funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project, and Charles Blair (University of Chicago) discusses the process of applying linked data to a digital repository. Linked Data for Libraries and Archives: LD4L and Europeana is online at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXWKu0elxQM Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/151818388

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape (Visconti, Purdue) https://vimeo.com/151657119 -Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks (Tijerina and Keller, Data & Society Research Institute) https://vimeo.com/151672242 -The Archaeology of Infrastructure (Choudhury, Johns Hopkins; Geraerts, University College London) https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission (Sallans, COS; Meyers, Notre Dame) https://vimeo.com/149889116 -Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World (Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151 -Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship (Van de Compel, Nelson) https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722 -Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation (Clifford Lynch, CNI) https://vimeo.com/149331593 -Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project (Smith, Anderson) https://vimeo.com/149410915 -How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version (Farb, Grappone, Broadwell, Klein) https://vimeo.com/149666124

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Spring 2016 CNI Membership Meeting on April 4-5 in San Antonio, Texas at The Westin Riverwalk.

Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings are accepted.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2016/s16-submit-a-proposal Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 12.

Follow this meeting on Twitter: #cni16s