What Is College For? The Future of Higher Education, the closing plenary from CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Association of American Universities President Hunter R. Rawlings III, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/zDLuCjCglDg Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/56015654

As former president of both the University of Iowa and Cornell University, and now as President of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Hunter Rawlings is ideally positioned for understanding how higher education in the United States is changing in response to a wide range of pressures and new opportunities. In this talk, Rawlings shares some of his perspectives on these developments, and helps us to better understand the broad context for our collective efforts to support and advance the scholarly enterprise.

Previously-released video from this meeting: -MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI's Perspective on 2012 and 2013 (Cliff Lynch, CNI) http://youtu.be/Fvys5VZrjsI -Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change (Lynne O'Brien, Duke U.) http://youtu.be/UbK0i4mhpWU

Following up on my earlier posting, here are more details on the upcoming Research Data Management Implementation Workshop scheduled for Washington DC on March 13-14, 2013.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Research Data Management Implementations Workshop funded by the National Science Foundation March 13 - 14, 2013 Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington VA

Many readers of CNI-announce are aware of the work of the newly-formed Research Data Alliance, which gave a presentation at our December 2012 CNI Member Meeting in Washington.

Fran Berman, who leads the United States participation in the Alliance, has asked me to share the note below with the CNI community, inviting participation in the RDA Launch Event, which will be held in Gothenburg, Sweeden on March 18-20, 2013.

Clifford Lynch DIrector, CNI

In December 2012 Brown University hosted a fascinating workshop (which I was unfortunately unable to attend) looking at issues in the reproducibility of computational and experimental mathematics, which has many connections to broader questions about scientific data management and cyberinfrastructure requirements to support reproducibility. The workshop web page, which can be found at

links to many of the presentations and position papers, as well as extensive reference resources.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI) at EDUCAUSE has just released a report from a working group that has been studying the development and depolyment of institutional services to help researchers to prepare data management plans to accompany grant proposals. The report can be found at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Spring 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 4-5 (Thursday and Friday) at the Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX. Registration materials will be sent shortly to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Tuesday, March 5. For more information, see the meeting website:

CNI Spring 2013 Membership Meeting

CNI Spring 2013 Membership Meeting April 4-5, 2013 San Antonio, TX Westin Riverwalk Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and app…

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via online form:

MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI’s Perspective on 2012 and 2013, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by director Clifford Lynch, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/Fvys5VZrjsI Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/55881513

In this talk, Clifford looks back on the events of 2012, and he discusses CNI's program for the coming year.

Previously-released video from this meeting: -Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change (Lynne O'Brien, Duke U.) http://youtu.be/UbK0i4mhpWU

I wanted to share the following announcement from Rajendra Bose about a workshop that I think will be of considerable interest to the CNI community.

With best wishes for 2013

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change by Lynne O'Brien of Duke University, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2012/), is now available on CNI's two video channels:

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/55947847 YouTube: http://youtu.be/UbK0i4mhpWU

About the presentation: Since announcing a partnership with Coursera in July 2012, Duke has launched two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and has eight more in development. Spanning humanities, social sciences and science topics, these courses have over 320,000 enrollments as of October 2012. Duke’s goals in experimenting with MOOCs are to drive teaching innovation in both campus-based and online courses, to extend Duke’s commitment to knowledge in service to society, and to expand Duke’s reach and reputation in a global environment.

In this presentation, O'Brien describes how the Coursera partnership has shaped campus discussions about higher education and teaching, and she discusses the impact of MOOCs on library planning and academic technology support. O'Brien also explores the rapidly evolving format of MOOC courses and considers what the implications may be for campus-based courses in the near future.

The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is clearing out its publication release backlog as a special holiday gift for us all. This is the last of a number of announcements I've shared over the past week or two noting these releases for CNI-announce readers.

The report I'm covering here is based on an excellent symposium that the Academies hosted in Washington DC in May 2011 on Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Network Environments. The full announcement is below. The report is available for free download as a PDF.

With Best Wishes for the Holidays

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI (Full Disclosure: I am currently co-chair of BRDI and was a participant in the symposium.)

This week, Ithaka released a report on a study funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities titled "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians"; this is part of a series of disciplinary studies that Ithaka is conducting in both the sciences and the humanities, and that they described at a session at the Fall CNI membership meeting earlier this week. The report is at

and a background description can be found at

Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians - Ithaka S+R

This study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, uncovers the needs of today’s historians and provides guidance for how research support

I wanted to share the following report announcement with the CNI community.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI (full disclosure: I am the current co-chair of the Academies Board on Research Data and Information, which is one of the groups within the academy involved in developing this report.)(

The new 2012-2013 CNI Program Plan, which was released in conjunction with our Fall membership meeting in Washington DC earlier this week, is now available on our web site. This is directly linked from our home page at www.cni.org. We will be mailing printed copies to CNI member representatives in early January, 2013.

I discussed the program plan as part of my "2012-2013 Review and Prospects" opening plenary session at the meeting; video from this should be available in early January 2013 and there will be an announcement here when it's ready.

Comments on the Program Plan are always welcome.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

On July 5-6 2012 JISC and CNI held a small invitational meeting in Birmingham, England to explore developments in scholarly communications and the implications of these for research institutions. A report from the meeting, prepared by Alma Swan, is now available at

The JISC Inform web site also contains a collection of video clips of interviews with some of the meeting participants at

CNI is pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for Open Repositories again this year.

Open Repositories 2013: Registration Open and Call for Proposals

This year’s Open Repositories Conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12.

Registration is now open at http://or2013.net/registration - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can!

A Guide to the Fall 2012 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2012 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC on December 10 and 11, 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 sessions at 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 are also welcome. Refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, December 10. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. As we did last fall, we added an extra round of breakout sessions on Monday in order to take advantage of a large number of very high quality and timely proposals for sessions. Tuesday, December 11, includes three additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch and the closing keynote, 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 10, 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, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting.

The PNC and ECAI are having a joint meeting in Berkeley on December 7-9, 2012; I am delighted to be doing one of the opening plenary talks on the first day. This looks to be an excellent program; details can be found at

http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2012/english/program.html

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share the announcement of this recent report from the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (which I currently co-chair) covering data citation and attribution. This report, based on a workshop held in August 2011 in Berkeley, California, is particularly useful because it looks at the issues broadly and analytically, as opposed to simply describing and advocating for one of the specific solutions that are currently being advanced.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleagues,

The Schedule of Events/Meeting Program for CNI's Fall 2012 Member Meeting is now available for download from the meeting website:

Fall 2012

CNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting December 10-11, 2012 Washington, DC Capital Hilton Hotel Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, a…

The document includes a schedule of project briefings to be presented at the meeting, as well as session abstracts.

We will be posting meeting updates from the CNI Twitter account (http://twitter.com/cni_org) using the hashtag #cni12f and we encourage other twitterers to do the same. The meeting will be held Dec. 10-11 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.

For those subscribers to cni-announce insterested in digital curation, you'll find a great line-up of speakers at this program in North Carolina on January 9 2013. Joan Lippincott

Register Now for "CurateGear 2013: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Join us for CurateGear 2013 a day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments and discuss application in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive event focused on digital curation tools and methods.

The symposium will take place on January 9, 2013 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.