I was fortunate to be able to participate in an excellent symposium that Harvard University hosted on May 16, 2012 exploring issues in contribution and attribution in scholarly communications. This connects in complex ways with work that is underway in developing new metrics for scholarly impact, author IDs and authority control, and the convergence of identity management, biography and bibliography. For me, one of the most interesting aspects of the discussions at the meeting and the subsequent report was the recognition that scholarly publishers need to explicitly structure metadata that characterizes scholarly contributions of contributors to publications, and that we face a major challenge in the development of norms and standards to facilitate this. The report from this meeting is now available, along with other background materials, at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

CNI is pleased to serve again this year as a cooperating organization for the IS&T Archiving Conference.

IS&T is pleased to announce the 10th Archiving Conference which will be held April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts is November 15, 2012.

A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.

The annual event presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in this exciting field. Archiving 2013 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. It brings together attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions.

I wanted to share the recent announcement of this valuable international resource with the CNI community.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

International Knowledge Base on Virtual Research Environments now released

PASIG, the Preservation and Access Special Interest Group, is meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 16-18, 2012. Here's the latest information on the conference. I'll be doing a plenary talk on the morning of the last day.

Note that early registration is about to end. My apologies for not getting this announcement out sooner.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm very pleased to share the call for papers for the 2013 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, which will be held on the east coast at the University of Maryland College Park on Feb 21-22, 2013. Many readers of CNI-announce will recall the 2011 and 2012 meetings, which were hosted at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California; materials from these meetings are available on the net. CNI is very pleased to again be a cooperating organization on this important conference.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Personal Digital Archiving 2013 21-22 February 2013 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA http://www.pda2013.info

The Fall 2012 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 10-11 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration materials will be sent shortly to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Monday, November 12. For more information, see 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…

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:

Last Call for Papers: iConference 2013 Fort Worth, Texas, February 12-15, 2013 Conference Site: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ Conference Submission System: https://www.conftool.pro/iConference13/

The iConference 2013 Papers deadline is September 3, 2012—less than a week away! All authors are encouraged to finalize their submissions as soon as possible.

Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/participation/

Following the Papers deadline, Notes will be due September 10; this new category is for reporting early and partial results. Poster submissions should be made by September 24. Doctoral colloquium applications and proposals for workshops, panels, and other alternative events are also due September 24.

Linked Data for Libraries: Why Should We Care? Where Should We Start, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Jennifer Bowen (U. of Rochester) and Philip E. Schreur (Stanford University) is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/jAUhQ7B8jp8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/45768860

Linked data is poised to replace MARC as the basis for the new library bibliographic framework. For libraries to fully benefit from linked data, they must learn about it, experiment with it, demonstrate its usefulness, and take a leadership role in its deployment. The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) facilitates these activities by providing open-source software for libraries that is “linked-data-ready”. XC software prepares MARC and Dublin Core metadata for exposure to the Semantic Web using a platform based upon the OAI-PMH protocol, incorporating registered vocabularies for Resource Description and Access (RDA) elements and roles, and enabling the creation of linked data that represents Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Group 1 entities. XC can play a key role in transitioning libraries from their current record-based system infrastructure to linked data by facilitating the repurposing of metadata, without disrupting existing business processes.

Other videos available from the spring 2012 CNI meeting include: Reinventing the Research University to Serve a Changing World (J. Duderstadt) Key Trends in Teaching & Learning: Aligning What We Know About Learning to Today's Learners (P. Long) Archiving Large Swaths of Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (Besser, et al) National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education (Halbert, et al) Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion (V. Steel & R. Chandler)

(I know that announcements of the availability of this volume have had considerable distribution, but I wanted to add a few comments of my own)

In May of 2011, I was fortunate to be able to participate in a very valuable conference hosted by the National Library of Estonia to explore international co-ordination and collaboration in efforts to preserve digital cultural memory that were underway in various nations. The National Library facility and the city of Tallinn -- which I had not had the opportunity to visit previously -- provided a truely inspiring background for considering these issues and opportunities, which I think are tremendously important and promising, and are starting to gather increasing attention in various ongoing fora such as the International Internet Preservation Consortium and PASIG. But this workshop is perhaps the broadest look at the range of opportunities in this area, which include such fascinating issues as trying to understand how various nations actually scope the digital cultural record and define the role of their national and research libraries in preserving it. The proceedings of the Tallinn conference have now been published as an freely downloadable PDF (there is also a print version available for purchase), and I have reproduced the announcement below. And I'm proud to have been able to contribute a summay essay to the volume, based on my remarks at the end of the Tallinn meeting. I think this volume will be of interest to all those interested in national strategies for digital preservation and how they might be coordinated and extended into international collaborations.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Virginia Steel and Robin Chandler of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/igPVcJvb3YA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/44839434

The Grateful Dead Archive (GDA) at UC Santa Cruz represents one of the most significant popular culture collections of the 20th Century and documents the band’s activity and influence in contemporary music from 1965 to 1995. At CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, UC Santa Cruz University Librarian Virginia Steel and Project Manager Robin Chandler discussed the particular challenges of merging a traditional archive with a socially constructed one.

Other videos available from the spring 2012 CNI meeting include: Reinventing the Research University to Serve a Changing World (J. Duderstadt) Key Trends in Teaching & Learning: Aligning What We Know About Learning to Today's Learners (P. Long) Archiving Large Swaths of Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (Besser, et al) National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education (Halbert, et al)

Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Courtney Loder, a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), as the 2012 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. 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.

Loder, who has a BA in history from Humboldt State University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, was selected for the Peters Fellowship, in part, due to her work using social theory to investigate the relationship between technology and social activity. Of her pursuits, Loder writes, “the ultimate goal of my research is to bring computing and the social together to provide a better understanding of how each can support the other, and to use this understanding in exploring new ways to facilitate connection between people, institutions, and space.” Loder’s extraordinary academic performance, creative investigative approaches, and her “quick wit” (like that of the award’s namesake), were all factors that contributed to her selection.

Recognized for her skill and commitment, Loder was selected as assistant director of the University of Pittsburgh’s iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the organization’s purpose is to recruit and develop students from populations underrepresented in the information professions and to help them prepare for graduate study. Respected by her peers, she has also served as chair of the University of Pittsburgh’s American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) student chapter. "I have been most impressed both by her scholarship and her humanity,” wrote UCI Professor Geoffrey Bowker, who recommended Loder for the award. “She meshes perfectly the skills of a programmer and the ethos of a librarian.”

Virginia Steel, University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a member of the selection committee, noted that Loder “shows exceptional promise of significant contributions in the future as she pursues her career interests. Her doctoral research will include the creation of tools to facilitate and enhance effective social interaction across space and time. Ms. Loder’s dual interests in technology and the people who use it are an excellent match with Paul Evan Peters’s deep commitment to using technology to improve society.”

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of higher education; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the Internet" project, including the one on big data that I highlighted two weeks ago, it's a compilation of comments on some specific questions by a wide variety of people that are collected together with some synthesis. These can be quite helpful in getting a sense of the range of (often quite informed) opinion on the issues. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of emphasis on the role of the Internet and of technologies broadly.

The announcement and pointers to the report both online and in downloadable PDF are at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Neil Beagrie has just announced the availability of a new report of teh Economic Impact Evaluation of the UK Economic and Social Science Data Service (ESDS). This is an important contribution to a literature that is still far too sparse, and I believe it will be of interest to CNI-announce readers well beyond the UK. Neil's announcement, which I've reproduced below, also contains some information on more recent developments on the new UK Data Service program.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We are pleased to announce that the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK has published the report of the Economic Impact Evaluation of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) to coincide with the launch of the new UK Data Service that succeeds it.

This is a very welcome development in the gradual convergence of biography, factual biography and bioliography CNI has been seeking to encourage. I have not seen much about this work; basically, linkages will be built between the biographical entries in Wikipedia and the VIAF author name authority files.

See

My thanks to Peter Brantley for the pointer to this work.

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of big data; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the Internet" project, it's a compilation of comments on some specific questions by a wide variety of people that are collected together with some synthesis. These can be quite helpful in getting a sense of the range of (often quite informed) opinion on the issues.

The announcement and pointers to the report both online and in downloadable PDF are at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) will be holding its next meeting in Washington DC on August 29-30. Much of the meeting is open to the public and includes a wide range of updates on developments in data management and curation, and there is a Forum on Global Scientific Data Infrastructure on the afternoon of the 29th.

You can find information on the overall meeting at

and the details of the forum are at

The EDUCAUSE Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI)'s Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group has just issued a new white paper that takes a broad synthesizing look at the series of reports issued by a series of task forces to the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure last year from the perspective of campuses supporting researchers that rely on this cyberinfrastructure. I have reproduced the EDUCAUSE announcement below.

Disclosure: I have been part of the CCI Task Force that prepared the white paper.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The DFG (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has just released a new strategy paper on approaches to developing and funding information infrastructues for research over the next five years; this should be of interest to a number of CNI-announce readers. I have reproduced the announcement below. The direct link to the paper is at:

www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/strategy_paper_digital_transformation.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers: Both the content of this academy at Cornell and the excellent line-up of speakers will be of interest to many of you. Joan Lippincott

================== CONTACT: Cornell University Professional Studies Phone: (607) 255-7259 E-mail: cusp[at]cornell.edu

Thought Leaders to Discuss Internet Culture and the Academy at the 2012 Institute for Computer Policy and Law

The Institute for Computer Policy and Law: Internet Culture and the Academy September 19-21, 2012 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Register now at http://icpl.cornell.edu

The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information has a study underway on workforce and educational issues raised by the new demands for digital curation. As part of this work, the sturdy committee will be holding a public symposium on 19 July in Washington DC which I think will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers. . More details are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI