Presentation materials & handouts for many of the Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting breakout sessions are now available from the project briefing (presentation) pages at http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/project-briefings/

Presenters who have not done so already are asked to send their materials to sharon@cni.org.

Videos from selected sessions will be available beginning in early January.

Audio recordings and powerpoints from the sessions at the October 13-14, 2011 ARL-CNI Wahsington DC Symposium on 21st Century Collections are now available at

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There's a wealth of great material here, though personally the two talks that stand out in my memory (and I have not gone back and listened to the all the talks again) were those of Paul Duguid, my colleague at the UC Berkeley School of Information, and John V. Lombardi, the very blunt-spoken and provocative President of the Lousiana State University System.

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Apologies for the late information, but I'll be speaking Friday, December 16, at the National Library of Medicine at 10AM. The talk announcement is below. My understanding is that the video (see link below) will be available both real-time and for later replay.

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As the National Library of Medicine's 175th anniversary draws to a close, we invite you to hear an interesting perspective on the future.

The European Science Foundation's Standing Committee on the Humanities has just issued a policy brief on Research Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities which offers an excellent survey of many large-scale European digital humanities efforts. Further details and a link to the report can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

A Guide to the Fall 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on December 12 and 13, 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 12. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. For this meeting, we added an extra round of breakout sessions on Monday in order to take advantage of an unprecedented number of proposals for sessions; it's clear that the pace of developments is accelerating, and we need to be responsive to this. Tuesday, December 13, 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 12, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in the Crystal City and Washington areas. Downtown Washington, DC is a quick taxi ride or accessible via the Metrorail (Metro) transit system, which is directly connected to the Crystal Gateway hotel.

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 Web site, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting.

Last fall, I shared with the CNI-announce community a call for short papers issued by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the US National Science Foundation as part of an unusual effort to identify new research opportunities in the ten to twenty year time horizon so that they could be factored into NSF's programs. Clearly, data and computationally intensive research methods are an important part of this environment, as are social media and the new collections of evidence created by extensive use of digital technology in society.

The submitted papers became available some time ago, and we did a breakout on this at the CNI member meeting last Fall. NSF has now produced a final synthesizing report on the project, titled "Rebuilding the Mosaic" which is available for downloading, and set up a page that integrates all the material. This can be found at:

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There is also a press release with pointers to some related video materials at

The December 2, 2011 issue of Science Magazine has a series of interesting articles about the reproducibility and replicability of results in scientific research, an important driver in many of the current conversations about data management and curation in science. See

Note that some of the material requires licensed access.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Updates on issues ranging from open data to innovations in publishing to assessment are some of the topics covered in the latest report from CNI, the Nov. 28, 2011 installment of CNI Conversations.

Director Clifford Lynch reports on the US Office of Science & Technology Calls for Comment on open data and open publications, as well a recent paper by the European Knowledge Exchange on an action plan for research data. CNI's associate director Joan Lippincott summarizes the Berlin 9 meeting on open access, and she discusses assessment in higher education. Upcoming meetings of interest to the community are also highlighted.

For more information about the Nov. 28 CNI Conversations, and to listen, go to http://wp.me/p1LncT-1NK

CNI's fall membership meeting will be held Dec. 12-13 in Arlington, VA. CNI Director Clifford Lynch will provide an overview of the 2011-12 CNI Program Plan during the meeting's opening session, and William Michener, Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, will present the closing plenary address Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia and an Introduction to DataONE.

More information about the plenary sessions, as well as a preliminary list of project briefings to be presented at the meeting is now available:

Fall 2011

CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting December 12-13, 2011 Arlington, VA Crystal Gateway Marriott Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually for membership meetings. The meeting…

Check back frequently as we will be adding project briefing abstracts, handouts, and a finalized scheduled shortly.

On December 9, 2010, in conjunction with the International Data Curation Conference in Chicago, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and the Purdue Universities Libraries organized an IMLS-funded Data Curation Research Summitt. I had an opportunity to participate in this event, which covered a good deal of ground, including some focus on the interplay between scholarly publishing and data curation. The final report from this meeting is now available at

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/28355

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Some CNI-readers will recall a 2010 European Union report titled "Riding the Wave"that looked at high-level research data management issues. This week, the Knowledge Exchange, a 4-nation collaboration (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) issed a response to this titled "A Surfboard for Riding the Wave -- Towards a four country action programme on research data". I attach full details from the Knowledge Exchange press release below. The report is at

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=469

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Here's the preliminary announcement for Open Repositories 2012, the next in this excellent series of conferences.

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The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://www.cni.org/conversations/) CNI Director Clifford Lynch provides a preview of the CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of plenary sessions and selected project briefings.

CNI's fall membership meeting will be held in Arlington, VA on Dec. 12-13, 2011 - registration deadline is THIS FRIDAY, Nov. 11. Visit http://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2011/ 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

CNI is a supporting organization for this conference.

JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) 2012 Call For Participation June 10-14, 2012 GWU Washington, DC, USA CFP JCDL 2012

Hosted by George Washington University June 10-14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA

The closing plenary for the Fall CNI Member meeting, to be held in Arlington VA on December 12-13, 2011 will be given by Professor William Michener of the University of New Mexico, who is serving as the principal investigator for the NSF-funded DataONE project. Bill is an ecologist who has been extensively involved in ecological informatics and cyberinfrastructure. DataONE, has now emerged as the flagship program within the NSF Data Net initiative to advance scientific data curation, is a large-scale multipronged effort to address the data management lifecycle, to support discovery and reuse of data, and to support "citizen science" engagement. Bill will discuss both the DataONE effort and its implications for scientific discovery. (Disclosure: I serve on the External Advisory Board for DataONE.)

University of Michigan President Emeritus James Duderstadt's Plenary address on the future of higher education and the research university has been rescheduled for our Spring 2012 Member Meeting, to be held in Baltimore on April 2-3, 2012; he will open the meeting.

Both of these should be wonderful presentations that will advance our understanding of key developments in research and higher education. I look foward to seeing you at them.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued two calls for public comment. One deals with policies for access to journal articles reporting on federally funded research. This is somewhat similar to a call that was issued last year. The second covers policies related preservation, access and reuse of data created as part of federally funded research programs. I believe that one or both of these topics are of interest to many institutions and individuals within the CNI community, and that our community has a great deal of good advice and insight to offer OSTP.

These calls can be found at

http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28621 (data)

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The registration deadline for the Fall 2011 CNI membership meeting is THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made arrangements for hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. The meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA on Dec. 12-13; consult the meeting Web site at http://www.cni.org/events/mm/fall-2011/ for accommodation details. If you have questions about your registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org.

Follow the meeting on Twitter: #cni11f

We looking forward to seeing you in Arlington!

The newly reorganized Preservation and Access Special Interest Group (PA-SIG), which has played a vital role as a forum for conversations and collaborations among industry, higher education, and cultural memory organizations, is having its semi-annual meeting in Austin, Texas on January 11-13. Meeting information can be found at

I also include some information below from Art Pasquinelli of Oracle, a long-time leader at PA-SIG.

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A great line-up of speakers at this symposium. --Joan Lippincott

The DigCCurr 2012 Public Symposium Presents:

CurateGear!

I wanted to share this announcement from our friends at the SURF Foundation in the Netherlands with the CNI community. They have been doing some very helpful work trying to understand what will happen to scholarly publications as we leave behind the limitations of the printed page, and as we need to present data intensive science.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Enhanced publication: from experiment to practice