While this is mentioned in the announcement of the National Research Council Symposium on the Federal Interagency BIg Data Strategic Plan that I just posted to CNI-announce, I wanted to specifically direct attention to the recent public call for input on this planning work which can be found at:

The call is open until November 13, and the page at the NITRD site above has all the details.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2014 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held December 8-9 in Washington, DC.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than next Monday, October 13. A limited number of proposals are accepted. For details, and for a submission form, please consult http://www.cni.org/go/fall-2014-proposal-form/.

Meeting and hotel registration deadline is November 7: http://www.cni.org/go/fall-2014-accommodations/.

Meeting hashtag is #cni14f.

I wanted to share this announcement with the broad CNI-announce community, even though it has already been posted to some more specialized digital preservation lists. The release of the free, open source digital forensics software described below, a joint effort of the University of North Carolina I-school and MITH at the University of Maryland enabled by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funding, finally puts an important class of digital preservation and curation tools into the hands of archivists, librarians, and curators of all kinds. This is particularly important in the emerging area of digital personal archives and archiving.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Release of BitCurator 1.0: Free and Open-Source Software for Libraries, Archives and Museums

On September 22-23, 2014 the Library of Congress hosted its annual invitational meeting on Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections in Washington DC; I was once again fortunate to be able to attend. This is a consistently excellent meeting that makes a real contribution to understanding interactions among storage systems, reliability and resilience, and preservation and digital library economics. The presentation materials from the meeting are now online at

There is a wealth of valuable material here that will be of interest to CNI-announce readers.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Following up on a session from one of our recent CNI membership meetings, I wanted to share this announcement of the release of the new version 2.0 of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). This is a very helpful integrating framework for a number of image-related services and interactions which I think is starting to gain some significant deployment.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Subject: IIIF Image and Presentation API Version 2.0 Published

For those interested in assessment of learning spaces, you will want to download version 1 of the newly released Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) available on the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) website at http://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/learning-space-rating-system

From the Introduction: "The Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) project provides a set of measurable criteria to assess how well the design of classrooms support and enable active learning activities. Noting the success of several architectural programs to promote sustainable building design, the LSRS provides a scoring system to serve as an indicator of how well a classroom’s design serves the goal of active learning. The LSRS criteria form the basis for a rating system that will allow institutions to benchmark their environments against best practices within the higher education community."

While this version focused on formal learning spaces, primarily classrooms, future versions will informal spaces (such as library and computer center spaces) and specialized spaces.

--Joan Lippincott CNI

Washington DC — The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of doctoral student Jordan Eschler and master’s student Olivia Dorsey as the 2014 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in library and information sciences. The fellowship was established to honor the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters; it recognizes outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, a commitment to civic responsibility and democratic values, and imagination. This is the first time two fellowships are being awarded in one year.

Jordan Eschler is a PhD student at the University of Washington’s Information School; she holds a BA in Economics and English from the University of Michigan and an MS in Information Management from the University of Washington. Eschler was selected for the Peters Fellowship, in part, for her research in helping to empower patients in their healthcare decisions, focusing especially on the unique circumstances of young adults with chronic disease. This segment of the population, Eschler points out, typically has fewer resources than older patients, but it is generally more inclined to seek advice and information from online communities. University of Washington iSchool professor Michael Eisenberg, who recommended Eschler for the award, wrote that she “shares the same sense of passion and commitment to using technology to improve society and services to people” as the award’s namesake.

This year’s recipient of the new award for master’s students, Olivia Dorsey, begins a program in information science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she previously received a BS in information science. Dorsey is particularly interested in using digital humanities to explore issues surrounding diversity, experience and identity. As an undergraduate research fellow, Dorsey created the digital archive FranklinMemories.com, which documents the faces and voices of the African American community in the racially diverse Appalachian town of Franklin, NC. Dorsey “has demonstrated outstanding potential for research and scholarship,” wrote University of Maryland professor Richard Marciano in a letter recommending her for the award, concluding, “she is committed to the archives profession and advancing diversity concerns within it.”

CNI executive director Clifford Lynch stated, “This year we again had a wonderful applicant pool that would have made Paul Peters both delighted and proud, and we have a great pair of awardees that honor his memory.” Commenting on this year’s change to the fellowship, “I am particularly pleased that this cycle we were able to offer a second award specifically targeted at a master’s-level student; this allows us to recognize people who are eager to move quickly into professional practice, paralleling Paul's career trajectory.”

As part of our continuing interest in the evolution of the scholarly monograph, CNI is very pleased to be a partner with the Association of Research Libraries in the ARL 2014 Fall Forum, "Wanted Dead or Alive -- the Scholarly Monograph". This one-day meeting, to be held in Washington DC on the 9th of October, 2014, will look at developments surrounding the monograph from a variety of directions, including the economics of monograph publishing and the shifting role of the monograph in the digital world.

Full information can be found at

ARL Membership Meeting Spring 2012 — Association of Research Libraries

The 160th ARL Membership Meeting convened in Chicago, Illinois, May 2–4, 2012. Program sessions were held on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, open scholarship, scenario planning, balanced...

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

CNI's Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott will present a Community Update on Wednesday, Oct. 1st, to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will begin at 4:30 PM in meeting room W307A/B. We particularly invite individuals who do not regularly attend CNI membership meetings to come to this introductory session.

Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference

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

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a special issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) on building open access infrastructure. Guest edited by Liam Earney, head of Jisc's Library Support Services, the issue features articles from a variety of perspectives, including publishers, universities, and open access experts. Browse the table of contents at http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2014/v26no2/

In Clifford Lynch's contribution to the issue, The Need for Research Data Inventories and the Vision for SHARE, CNI's director describes the potential role of the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) in the overall scheme of managing research data. The piece is freely available for download at http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13684/PI_Lynch_SHARE_isqv26no2.pdf

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

Artstor is proud to announce the Digital Humanities Award. This award recognizes the most innovative and intellectually stimulating projects in this growing field as part of Artstor’s commitment to enhance scholarship and teaching across all disciplines through the use of digital media. Award recipients will receive five years of free access to Artstor’s innovative cloud-based digital asset management tool, Shared Shelf.

To apply for an Artstor Digital Humanities Award:

Entrants are invited to describe their Digital Humanities project in 1,000 words or less. The team behind the best three entries will receive full, long-term access to Artstor’s Shared Shelf digital media management software to upload, catalog, manage, store, and share their project.

About Shared Shelf:

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Fall 2014 CNI Membership Meeting on December 8-9 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton.

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: http://www.cni.org/go/fall-2014-proposal-form/

Proposal submissions are due no later than Monday, October 13.

The University of Missouri - Columbia is hosting a forum on November 10-11, 2014 titled "Avoiding the Memory Hole: Saving Born-Digital News Content". Our lack of good preservation strategies for digital news is a serious crisis that has been developing for some time, and another look at the issues and the agenda and strategies going forward seems very timely. I will be participating in the event and I hope that other interested readers of CNI-announce will be able to join me at the forum.

Full information can be found at

Note that there is no registration fee.

Posted on behalf of Barrie Howard at the Library of Congress:

Dear Colleagues,

Last month the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program launched a survey designed to capture the digital preservation continuing education, professional development, and training needs of your organization. The survey has been extended until close of business on Friday, September 5, 2014, and is available fromhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014DPOESurvey

The survey addresses basic questions about your organization, staff size and responsibilities, collection items, preferred training content and delivery options, and professional development planning. The Library intends to use this information to assist with the further development and/or refinement of its digital preservation educational programs and initiatives.

I know that many readers of the CNI-announce list share my interest in speculations about the future, and how technology, society, and scholarship may evolve to create that future. I've recently read what I thought was a very elegant book that I highly reccomend to those who share those interests titled "A History of the Future in 100 Objects" by Adrian Hon.

Adrian Hon's book is partially inspired by the recent exhibition (and accompanying book) by Neal MacGregor at the British Museum summarizing the history of civilization in 100 objects, and envisions 100 objects (broadly defined; some are really events or other developments that are in some sense represented by an object) from the period 2014 - 2087 that chart the evolution of civilization during that period.

You can find information about this book, and excerpts from it, at

About five years ago I shared some pointers to materials, including a synthesis of the state of the art and the research agenda, describing work going on primarily within the exascale computing community on the resilience of very large scale systems; while much of this is focused on computation (very large numbers of processors), it is also highly relevant to storage systems essential for large scale data management and digital preservation. Recently, a new article has been published by a group that includes a number of the authors of the earlier reports, looking at the progress that has beenmade over the past five years. This will be of interest to CNI-announce readers interested in getting a sense of the progress that has (or has not) been made over the last half decade.

This is available at

(abstract and pointer to PDF of the article).

Posted on behalf of Malcolm Brown at EDUCAUSE:

Greetings! I’m writing with a reminder that the call for proposals for the ELI 2015 Annual Meeting is open, but the deadline is fast approaching (August 28th).

The URL for submitting a proposal is here: http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-annual-meeting/call-proposals

The dates for the 2015 Annual Meeting are Feb. 9-11, 2015, and the location is Anaheim, CA. The tag line for the event is: Designing Our Thinking: Crafting New Directions for Digital Engagement.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has just released its first ever report for libraries. As with its other reports, this one identifies six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.

The full report is available at http://www.nmc.org/news/its-here-horizon-report-2014-library-edition

I served on the expert panel to select the topics featured in the report.

--Joan Lippincott CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

A limited number of places are still available at the 3d Designing Libraries Conference, which will be held at the University of Calgary in Canada on September 28-30, 2014. North Carolina State University Libraries and CNI are co-sponsors of this event.

Librarians, architects, planners, designers, information technologists and others will gather to discuss the challenges and achievements of designing libraries and learning centers for the 21st century. We will have sessions on an array of topics including creating a vision, focusing on learning, research and technology spaces, planning, interior design, and addressing organization and service models. We will include many examples from renovated libraries as well as new buildings.

We have a great line-up of speakers and topics as well as two preconferences. Information on the program and registration, for a fee, is available on the conference website at http://ucalgary.ca/designinglibraries/

In March 2014 I announced the report of a US National Research Council committee that I co-chaired on the possibilities for building a global digital library to support mathematical research. There's a short article summarizing this report that committee member Jim Pitman from the University of California, Berkeley and I co-authored which may be of interest to some CNI-announce readers; it's in the August 2014 Issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society, which is available on the web at

a direct link to the article can be found at

http://www.ams.org/notices/201407/rnoti-p776.pdf