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

Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape explores a uniquely shaped humanities dissertation, which included the design, code, and user-testing of an experimental social reading interface. The talk by Amanda Visconti (Purdue) is now online at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/_U0j9Nq0TKU Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/151657119

Bonnie Tijerina and Emily Keller of the Data & Society Research Institute discuss the Supporting Ethics in Data Research project that explores the current and potential partnerships between computer science researchers, librarians, and support systems on campus to address emerging ethical issues in the research process. Big Data Ethics Support Systems and Networks is online at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/bJACENw_AuI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/151672242

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -The Archaeology of Infrastructure https://vimeo.com/149713092 -The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission 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

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

Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins) and Jaap Geraerts (University College London) describe the close cooperation between scholars and technical experts in the development of a transcription protocol developed to better understand the practice of reading. Watch The Archaeology of Infrastructure at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/u7gA_T0eVXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149713092

The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free, open source Web application, developed by the Center for Open Science (COS), that provides features like file sharing and citing, persistent urls, provenance tracking, and automated versioning. Andrew Sallans (COS) and Natalie Meyers (Notre Dame) describe the core OSF architecture and the problems that it solves, and then explore how this infrastructure can support the institutional research mission, demonstrated through specific examples from the University of Notre Dame. The Open Science Framework (OSF) at Notre Dame: Connecting the Workflow and Supporting the Research Mission is online at: YouTube: https://youtu.be/enohoM6cBww Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149889116

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

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

In this video of the closing plenary address, Transparency, Trust, and Consumer Protection in a Complex World, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill discusses the Internet of Things, big data and the implications for privacy and fairness from the consumer's perspective: YouTube: https://youtu.be/_yB80xD3xvY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149483151

Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University) consider 17 years of working towards interoperability in the project briefing Achieving Meaningful Interoperability for Web-based Scholarship, exploring, in particular, three efforts: OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, and Memento: YouTube: https://youtu.be/NEeDvlveEVA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/149517722

Previously-released videos from this meeting: -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

In November, 2015, I had the opportunity to visit with bepress in Berkeley and have a interesting conversation with CEO JG Bankier and the bepress team about the evolution of institutional repositories, including some humbling cross-examination about the paper I wrote on repositories over a decade ago. bepress has made the video available and it can be found at:

There is also a blog post

Today's “Morning Edition” (a National Public Radio [NPR] program) featured a story on digital preservation of interest to the CNI community: “Will Future Historians Consider These Days the Digital Dark Ages?” The piece includes perspectives from several experts very familiar to CNI followers, including Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and CNI's Cliff Lynch. Here’s a link to a recording of the story:

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/04/461878724/will-future-historians-consider-these-times-the-digital-dark-ages

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org facebook.com/cni.org

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

Clifford Lynch’s opening plenary address, Recalibrating Access, Security, Privacy and Innovation, an overview of CNI’s 2015-16 Program Plan, looks at key developments that the Coalition has been tracking over the past year, and highlights some issues of particular interest to the CNI community. You’ll find Cliff’s talk on both of CNI’s video channels, and here are the direct links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/M1Zl-ovCoYI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149331593

In How Much Does $1.7 Billion Buy You? A Comparison of Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Version, a team from UCLA examines the value added by academic publishers to scholarly communications by coordinating reviews and contributing text during publication. The preliminary results presented here are based on pre-print publications from arXiv.org and their post-print counterparts obtained through subscriptions held by the UCLA Library. YouTube: https://youtu.be/7vAvrzmQdTQ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149666124

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the fall 2015 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 Pay-It-Forward project at the University of California (UC) is investigating the financial sustainability of the “Gold” model for Open Access (OA), in which journal publishers charge authors an Article Processing Charge (APC) to generate revenue instead of subscriptions. In this breakout session from CNI’s recent membership meeting UC Davis University Librarian MacKenzie Smith and California Digital Library Interim Director Ivy Anderson present an update on the project, including data on journal budgets and expenditures, publishing costs, and attitudes about Gold OA by publishers and authors.

Is Gold Open Access Sustainable? Update from the UC Pay-It-Forward Project is now available online: YouTube: https://youtu.be/TC9juHky3n4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149410915

Readers may also be interested in a related presentation from CNI’s spring 2015 meeting in Seattle, also by Ivy Anderson, along with Stuart Shieber of Harvard and Ralf Schimmer of the Max Planck Digital Library. Video of What Price Open Access? is available from CNI’s video channels, and on the project briefing page at https://wp.me/p1LncT-5BD .

On a related note: A study by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and released earlier this year, "Disrupting the subscription journal's business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access” (http://dx.doi.org/10.17617/1.3 ), asserts that a transition to open access would be possible at no extra cost. Today, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released a summary of the recently-held Berlin 12 Open Access Conference that was convened to discuss a proposal by the Max Planck Society to flip subscription-based journals to open access models. ARL’s report is available at http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/2015.12.18-Berlin12Report.pdf .

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has recently announced the public release of a report in its Technology Watch Seriies on Personal Digital Archiving prepared by Gabriela Redwine of Yale University. The announcement, describing the scope and purpose of the report, can be found here:

and a direct link to the report:

Every year, in conjunction with our December member meeting, CNI releases an updated Program Plan document, which includes some background material on CNI and covers our plans for the program year. As part of my opening plenary at the member meeting, I usually cover highlights from this plan.

For those who were not able to be with us at our meeting earlier this week, the 2015-2016 Program Plan is now available on our website, linked directly from the home page. Printed copies will be sent to member representatives early in 2016.

Video of the opening plenary, the closing plenary, and a number of other sessions will be rolled out in the coming weeks as well, with announcements to this list.

Best wishes for the holiday season and the new year.

I have been part of a EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) working group on Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) for a number of years. Recently, this working group completed work on a series of papers covering big data in the campus context which are now available for public access. There are four papers: Laying the Groundwork; Basic Infrastructure Support; Security and Privacy; and Curation. (Disclosure: I served as the lead author on the final paper. )

These are short, high-level surveys that should be helpful for a range of audiences on campus. The series can be found at:

More information on the work of the ECAR-CCI working group is at

Here is the call for proposals for the 2016 Open Repositories meeting. CNI is once again delighted to be a cooperating organization for this important gathering

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Posting on behalf of the Wikipedia Library Team. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Hello from Jake and Alex at The Wikipedia Library!

Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday this January 15th. We want to invite you to help us make it a big splash with a week-long, global campaign to engage our peers in the research, library, and cultural sectors all over the world.

A Guide to the Fall 2015 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2015 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC on December 14 and 15, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the "roadmap" to the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in digital information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in the Washington, DC area to provide opportunities to interact with policy makers and funders.

As usual, the CNI meeting proper is preceded by an optional orientation session for new attendees, both representatives of new member organizations and new representatives or alternate delegates from existing member organizations, at 11:30 AM; guests and presenters are also welcome. Light refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, December 14. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, December 15, includes three additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch and the closing plenary, concluding around 3:30 PM. Along with plenary and breakout sessions, the meeting includes generous break time for informal networking with colleagues and a reception which will run until 7:15 PM on Monday evening, December 14, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in Washington.

The CNI meeting agenda is subject to last minute changes, particularly in the breakout sessions, and you can find the most current information on our website, cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting.

Dear cni-announce subscribers: Posting on behalf of the organizers at UNC-Chapel Hill. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

The BitCurator Consortium is pleased to announce that the BitCurator User Forum 2016 program is now online (https://www.bitcuratorconsortium.org/events/buf2016). On this website, you'll find session descriptions and suggested accommodations, as well as registration info.

Overview: Join BitCurator users from around the globe as we discuss how we are using the BitCurator software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, real-world experiences of digital archivists and digital curation experts. Come prepared to discuss your current challenges, share emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and address the “now what” of handling your digital forensics outputs.

CNI is pleased to be a cooperating organization for the IS&T Archiving Conference once again.

The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) is pleased to announce the release of the Archiving 2016 Preliminary Program .

The program provides an overview of the conference, as well as information on the Short Course Program and Behind-the-Scenes Tours . A number of new courses are offered this year, including Computational Photography Techniques for Cultural Heritage Documentation and Archiving, Spectral Imaging—Spectral Capture and Processing, and Assessing Formats for Preservation.

Conference Keynotes:

The annual Library Publishing Forum Call for Proposals is out. This is an excellent way to get up to speed on an important trend in academic libraries and to contribute your own innovative work. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

LPForum 2016 Amplifying Scholarship: More Choices, More Voices May 17 - 19, 2016 University of North Texas Libraries

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is accepting proposals for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, to be held May 17 - 19 in Denton, Texas. An international, community-led organization with over 60 member libraries, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic and research libraries to support content creators as they generate, advance, and disseminate knowledge.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

The annual electronic theses and dissertations conference ETD2016 will be in Europe this summer and there will be some a theme that is very relevant to many in the CNI community -- handling research data produced by PhD students. There will be sessions on a broader set of topics, too.

I encourage you to submit a session proposal - see below. Note: I am on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) which co-sponsors the conference. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers: I know many of you have participated in the Learning Spaces Collaboratory's webinars. Here is an opportunity to join an in-person workshop in Washington, DC. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Jeanne L. Narum" jlnarum@ico-dc.com Subject: LSC Workshop Alert: Designing and Delivering Learning Spaces that Matter Date: December 2, 2015 9:16:15 AM EST To: "Jeanne L. Narum" jlnarum@ico-dc.com

I wanted to share this meeting invitation with the CNI community. The Image Interoberability Framework is gaining a lot of traction lately, and we will also have coverage of the initiative at our upcoming CNI member meeting in DC later in December. My apologies for the late posting, but I hope some CNI-announce subscribers will still find this helpful.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Subject: Invitation to IIIF: Access to the World's Images - 8 December 2015

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

It's that time of year - the Horizon Project Higher Education trends, 2016 edition, have just been announced. In addition, you are invited to submit your projects, policies, and initiatives that reflect those topics to the New Media Consortium (NMC). Disclosure: I served on the advisory group to this report and am also serving on the NMC Board. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Posting on behalf of the New Media Consortium: The 2016 Horizon Project Higher Education expert panel has spoken! They have just selected the six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology that will be featured in the upcoming NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition, to be released at the ELI Annual Meeting in February. The project and resulting report is a collaboration with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). These are the topic poised to have a major impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in higher education across the globe. Check out a summary of results below, and you can find helpful definitions and discussions of each on the official project wiki. Then it’s your turn! We’re looking for innovative projects, policies, and leadership initiatives that reflect these topics in action. Submit your exemplary work at go.nmc.org/projects