Our friends at the UK JISC have just issued a very useful new report titled "Value and Benfits of Text Mining" which looks at some of the early applications of text mining, particularly in the context of the scholarly literature, and the technical, economic, and legal barriers to large scale use of text mining technologies. Of particular interest is the analysis of text mining as a means of accelerating innovation and discovery across a wide range of sectors and some of the related economic considerations. The coverate of copyright here actually include a discussion of possible future changes in copyright law (perhaps in the context of the Hargreaves review of intellectual property law that is under discussion in the UK) to facilitate text mining technologies.

The report can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

An update from University of North Texas.

Dear Colleagues:

Thank you for the overwhelming response to our call for participants in the Data Management Focus Group at the CNI Spring Membership Meeting. Unfortunately, the session is now full.

Other ways you can contribute to this research include:

At CNI we have been focusing on the topic of research data management as a key priority for the past few years. This workshop, hosted by University of North Texas, has an impressive line-up of speakers and should be very useful to those seeking perspectives in this area.

Joan Lippincott

Greetings,

The next Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) conference will be held in Lima, Peru on September 12-14, 2012. Please consider submitting a proposal for a conference session. I will be presenting a keynote talk at the conference. Joan Lippincott

The theme of ETD 2012 is “Integrating cultures for the creation and sharing of knowledge – providing opportunities for the future”. Our goal is to explore and share opportunities between representatives from Ibero American and other countries around the world, in order to exchange experiences and knowledge on scholarly communications projects related to the topics considered in the ETD 2012 program. The program will include technical papers, plenary keynote and panel sessions, workshops and poster presentations about the following topics: Digital preservation Copyright / Intellectual property Institutional Repositories ETD policies and programs Technological developments in ETD and institutional repositories Digital libraries and information technology National and international collaboration ETD Multimedia Data Curation Interoperability and union catalog collections If you are interested in presenting a paper, power point presentation, or contributing a panel or poster session, please visit the proposal submission Web site athttp://www.etd2012.edu.pe/en/presentacion-trabajos/index.asp The preliminary program as well as speakers and other relevant information are available at the conference Web site www.etd2012.edu.pe. We hope you will consider participating in this important international digital library venue and you will join us for an engaging experience at ETD 2012 as well as the incredible “once in a lifetime” experiences that Peruvian culture has to offer. Machu Picchu, Lima and many other sights are waiting for you, and so are we! For more information please send your requests to Liliana Eléspuru (etd2012@gmail.com) Libio Huaroto (etd2012@gmail.com) Co-Chairs, ETD 2012 Conference Organizing Committee ETD 2012 Website - www.etd2012.edu.pe/

The latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-277) offers a preview of the CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of plenary sessions and selected project briefings.

CNI's spring membership meeting will be held in Baltimore, MD on April 2-3, 2012. Visit www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/ for more information.

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

A number of cni-announce subscribers have told me that they have benefited from the Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinar series. Here is information about the next one. (I am on the advisory board of this group.) --Joan Lippincott

Greetings:

Please join us for an opportunity to explore The Athenaeum at Goucher College, which is “a high-tech library, a public forum, classrooms, a café, an art gallery, a radio station, a center for community service places to meet and converse, and many other spaces—all in one.” The webinar is at 4pm EDT on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

An Overview of the National Science Foundation DataNet Funded Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data Project, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by Margaret Hedstrom of the University of Michigan, and Robert McDonald of Indiana University, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/pFVJ4MadmeA Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/37284117

Previously-released videos from CNI's fall 2011 meeting: -Online Video Creation by Undergraduates: Consequences for Media Literacy (Anu Vedantham, Renee Hobbs) -Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation (Oya Y. Rieger, Robert Wolven) -Five New Paradigms for Science & Academia & an Intro to DataOne (Closing Plenary, William Michener) -Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology: CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012 (Opening Plenary, Clifford Lynch)

All videos from CNI are available on CNI's video channels: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

Call For Participation The Management of Scholarly Identity A CNI Workshop April 4, 2012 (following the CNI Spring Member Meeting) Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, Maryland

10AM - 3PM

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is hosting an invitational workshop for organizations actively involved in developing systems, services, databases, standards or policy frameworks addressing author identity management within the academy and the scholarly communication systems. The purpose of this workshop is to understand and coordinate developments in historically independent spheres that involve the management of authorial identity, publication histories, and other parts of academic biography (for example, grants awarded to faculty); in the new digital scholarly communications environment there is at least potential convergence among many of these activities. A particular focus of the workshop will be to identify work that can help information to move more effectively across the many different silos in this area. Here are some of the relevant threads:

A number of proposals for author identifiers have now largely coalesced into the ORCID initiative, which remains very much a work in progress; there are also international standards efforts (which seem to have rather different objectives) under development. This work is not yet well connected to the increasingly widely deployed campus identity management efforts employing Shibboleth and organized under InCommon.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I have been involved with the planning for this University of Calgary Taylor Family Digital Library conference, and Tom Hickerson, Vice Provost & University Librarian and I believe we have put together a rich program for administrators involved in developing new library spaces. Information on registration (for a fee) can be found at the URL below.

You may also be interested in a video of a presentation by Tom and his colleague Shawna Sadler from the Spring 2011 membership meeting; it is available at:

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-26o), recorded Feb. 28, CNI Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott report on various recent conferences & reports, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012 meeting, the recent Personal Digital Archiving meeting, and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) conference, as well as much more.

For the latest news & information: CNI-ANNOUNCE: cni-announce-subscribe@cni.org CNI News: http://www.cni.org/news/ Follow CNI: @cni_org

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

The DataRes Project is organizing this focus group, which will take place at the end of the CNI spring meeting. Please see below to express interest in attending. -- Joan Lippincott

Call for Participation: Data Management Focus Groups, Jan. 20th during the CNI Membership Meeting

Data Management Focus Group Tuesday, April 3, 2012 from 4:00 - 5:00 Severn I, Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel CNI Membership Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland

The registration deadline for the Spring 2012 CNI membership meeting is next MONDAY, MARCH 5th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Monday. Information about registration & accommodations is available online: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/registration-accommodations/

A preliminary list of project briefing/presentation titles & presenters is now available, as are abstracts for plenary talks by James Dudererstadt (U. of Michigan) and Philip Long (U. of Queensland), all from the meeting website: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012

If you have questions about meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The event will be held in at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD on April 2-3.

We looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore!

Our friends at the SURF foundation in the Netherlands have just announced a new report that I think will be of interest to the CNI community. I've reproduced the announcement below. The report is at:

http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Users%20narcissism%20and%20control.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The US National Science Foundation has released a short document titled "Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan". The document lays out a new high-level vision for Advanced Computing Infrastructure that takes acount of the findings of the six task force reports to the Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, as well as other developments. The document argues for a broad and balanced portfolio of investments in Advanced Computing Infrastructure.

The document can be found at:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12051/nsf12051.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

CNI is a co-sponsor of this event

You are cordially invited to

*The 16th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium

*Orphan Works & Mass Digitization: Obstacles & Opportunities

Online Video Creation by Undergraduates: Consequences for Media Literacy, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by Anu Vedantham of the University of Pennsylvania, and Renee Hobbs of Temple University, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/HNwSh62owu4 Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/36327641

Previously-released videos from CNI's fall 2011 meeting: -Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation (Oya Y. Rieger, Robert Wolven) -Five New Paradigms for Science & Academia & an Intro to DataOne (Closing Plenary, William Michener) -Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology: CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012 (Opening Plenary, Clifford Lynch)

All videos from CNI are available on CNI's video channels: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-23U) CNI Director Clifford Lynch discusses the New Media Consortium Horizon Project megatrends report, the ICSU scenarios project, e-book self publishing, and much more. Associate Director Joan Lippincott talks about selected sessions at the recent AAC&U meeting, as well as her recent participation on an ACRL-sponsored panel on academic libraries and trends in higher education.

For the latest news & information: CNI-ANNOUNCE: cni-announce-subscribe@cni.org CNI News: http://www.cni.org/news/ Follow CNI: @cni_org

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. It is available at http://www.nmc.org/news/and-eli-release-horizon-report-2012-hied-edition This popular resource identifies trends in technology that have particular relevance for teaching and learning. Key trends and challenges that will affect current practice over the next five years frame these discussions. The report includes links to additional resources that provide detail and examples of the trends. I know many of you will find this report very useful for planning discussions in your institution. I have served on the Advisory Board of the report for the past few years. --Joan Lippincott

A report of the CNI Executive Roundtable Risk Management & Disaster Planning, held at the CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting, is now available:

Background: Increasingly, institutions are grappling with the reality that they must have good plans in place to quickly provide access to networks, IT services, and digital content if disaster strikes. On-campus disruptions, including local violent acts or massive power outages, may precipitate the need to activate an emergency plan, or natural disasters may provide the impetus. In addition, major disruptions or outages from commercial content providers or cloud services could have negative consequences for research projects and teaching and learning activities. Outsourcing creates dependences that need to be identified, analyzed, and taken into account when managing risk. What can institutions realistically plan for, and how can they assess the risks of locally provided content, cloud services, and content provided from vendors’ own systems?

Teams from 10 higher education institutions described their experiences, concerns, strategies, and future plans during a discussion of these and other issues that took place at the CNI Executive Roundtable in Arlington, VA on December 12, 2011.

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting are due THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 17. Proposals may be submitted by email to joan@cni.org, or via the online form:

www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/submit-a-proposal/

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org).

The meeting will be held April 2-3, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. The opening plenary talk, The Future of the American Research University, will be presented by James Duderstadt, University of Michigan President Emeritus & chair of the US National Academies committee that authored the report Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University. Phillip D. Long, professor and director of the Centre for Educational, Innovation & Technology at the University of Queensland, Australia, will present the closing plenary. The meeting hashtag is #cni12s.