DigCCurr Professional Institute Registration Open
I'm passing along registration information from our colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who offer excellent professional development...
CNI Mtg Schedule Available
The schedule for CNI's Fall 2013 Membership Meeting has been posted: http://www.cni.org/go/cni-fall-2013-schedule/ Also posted recently to the meeting...
A Busy Week for Big Data
There have been several inter-related announcements dealing with "Big Data" this week that I think will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers; my...
UK Government Report \"Seizing the Data Opportunity\"
This pointer from the UK Digital Curation Center newsletter will, I think, be of interest to CNI-announce readers. The UK Government has recently published a...
CLIR Report on Research Data Management
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released a new publication titled "Research Data Management: Principles, Practices and...
2014 Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries
Again this year, Stanford University Libraries are calling for entries for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries. These entries are due by...
REMINDER: CNI Registration closes Tuesday 11/12
The registration deadline for the Fall 2013 CNI member meeting is next TUESDAY, November 12. If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel...
Research Data Management & the History of Science
There's an interesting report from the History of Science Society that looks at the question of how historians of science, as opposed to scientists in...
McKinsey Report on Open Data
The McKinsey & Co. Global Institute has released an interesting report titled "Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance" which covers the potential of...
Presentations from LC Meeting on Storage Architectures
For the last few years, the Library of Congress has been running an excellent annual meeting Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections, which...
Learning Spaces Collaboratory Webinar
The Learning Spaces Collaboratory presents many fine programs. You may be interested in registering for the upcoming webinar. Joan Lippincott, CNI Please...
"Webcast: Smithsonian Event on 3-D imaging & printing, Nov 13-14,
A few days ago I sent out an announcement about a conference that the Smithsonian was hosting in Washington DC on 3-D imaging and reproduction for cultural...
"New Book on Research Data Management and my chapter on future
Purdue University Press is about to release a new book titled Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals, edited by Joyce...
NDSA Report on Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) has just issued a report on the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data; this should be of interest in a...
"National Academy BRDI Open Challenge on Research Data and
As a way of raising awareness and stimulating thinking about the potential for new uses of research data and information, the US National Academy of Sciences...
"3D imaging & printing for cultural heritage -- Smithsonian, DC,
I wanted to share the announcement of this fascinating and important conference being hosted by the Smithsonian Institution on November 13-14, 2013 in...
IDCC14, SF 24-27 Feb: Draft Programme & Registration Open
There's a draft program available for the International Data Curation Conference, and registration is now open. It should be an excellent event, and CNI is...
NDIIPP report on Preservation of Software
In March 2013 the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) hosted a workshop at the LIbrary of Congress to help formulate...
NISO Altmetrics meeting in Washington, DC 12/13/13
Dear cni-announce subscribers: NISO encourages those individuals who will be in Washington attending the CNI meeting on Dec. 9-10 to stay for their in-person...
Designing Libraries II Presentations Available
NC State University hosted a conference Designing Libraries for the 21st Century II held on October 6-8 and the speaker presentations (including my own) are...
