Registration and program information are now available for the premier conference on ETDs. I will be giving a presentation on digital scholarship centers and their support for students developing ETDs. Joan Lippincott

ETD2011: Call for Participation

ETD2011 - 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 13-17 September 2011 Cape Town, South Africa http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

This latest report from CNI, recorded June 22, 2011, includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and a public symposium on crowdsourcing hosted by the National Research Council's Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).

Listen to the June 22 CNI Conversations: http://wp.me/pGewu-4r CNI Conversations is available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@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

Earlier this week I was fortunate to be able to attend a briefing on a series of awards that the German DFG has made to support information Infrastructure for Research. These are discipline-specific and span the sciences, the social sciences, engineering and the humanities, since the DFG funding scope covers all of these disciplines. This is a very impressive program and I think it will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers, both as an example of a national approch to the challenges of data intensive scholarship, but also as a possible source of future collaborations. The announcement, which links to a number of other documents, can be found at

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I am hoping that we may be able to have a session exploring some of these activities at the fall CNI member meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

There's a very interesting new report out on Journal Data Mining; it was prepared by Eefke Smit and Maurits van der Graaf on behalf of the Publishing Research Consortium, so it has a strong publisher perspective, but as far as I know it's the first extensive look at the issues involved in practical and operational large-scale data mining of the journal literature. One of the really interesting things that emerges from the report, at least the way I read it, is that many of the commercial publishers seem to be thinking about literature mining as a separate activity, not included in traditional electronic subscription arrangements (site licenses) that they have with research libraries. (Indeed, many such licenses forbid bulk downloading of journal articles, which in the absence of text mining facilities built into the vendor platforms is a prerequisite for such mining; even if such facilities exist, they essentially mean that the publishers control the evolution of mining technology). Rather, the publshers seem to envision a future where they'll do business directly with potential literature miners.

This is one of several issues framed by the report which I think merit very careful thought by research library leaders, and broad conversations engaging faculty.

The report is at:

http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed to International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL).

CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will present a keynote address at the conference.

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany

The TPDL 201 conference program of is now online at http://tinyurl.com/ProgrammeOverview

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans, LA, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will present the keynote address at the OCLC symposium The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age on Friday, June 24. Also at the meeting, Clifford will be part of LITA's Top Tech Trends Panel on Sunday, June 26.

Consult the conference Web site at http://www.alaannual.org/ for location and registration details.

A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI's channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni):

Data Management Plans Online, a project briefing session presented by UCLA's Todd Grappone and Patricia Cruse from the California Digital Library:

More information about this presentation is available from the meeting Web site, http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/.

There's a nice informational workshop organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the morning of June 21 in Washington DC; I'll be providing some very brief comparative commentary on the situation in the United States as a reactor to the presentations. I've reproduced the invitation below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

You are cordially invited to attend the informational workshop on Making Scientific Research Data Accessible: Current Trends and Perspectives in Germany. The event is being organized by the North America Office of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). This workshop will be held on June 21st, 2011, at the DFG North America Office located in Suite 1000 in the building at 1776 I St., NW, Washington, DC, 20006.

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A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI's channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni):

Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web, a project briefing session presented by Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

More information about this presentation is available from the meeting Web site, http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/.

The McKinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research arm of the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm, has recently issued a report that will be of interest to some readers of CNI-Announce titled "Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity", which reviews some of the techniques used in data-intensive scholarship, as well as other data-intensive analytic methods, and explores their applications to areas like government, healthcare, consumer retail, and manufacturing. The report includes a discussion of estimated payoffs from these new approaches, as well as some consideration of policy issues.

The report can be found at

Download information is at the bottom of the page. Note that it's available in several e-book formats as well as in the standard PDF download.

There's a very interesting free symposium being presented by the National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information on June 13, 2011 in Washington DC dealing with crowdsourcing, social networking, and scientific data quality. The issues being considered connect directly to recent discussions at CNI and at the International Data Curation Conference, among other venues, on the relationships among cyberinfrastructure and data intensive scholarship on one side and the new resurgence of citizen science (and citizen humanities) on the other.

I've reproduced the announcement for the meeting below. I hope that some CNI-announce readers will be able to attend.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Interviews conducted during the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been published by EDUCAUSE:

The podcasts include a conversation with plenary speaker Todd Presner, founder and director of HyperCities (a GIS research and education platform built on the Google Maps and Google Earth APIs), as well as an interview with UCSD University Librarian Brian Schottlaender on collaboration and the future of university libraries. EDUCAUSE producer Gerry Bayne spent time with a few other presenters and attendees at CNI's spring meeting, including:

• Brian Owen (Simon Frasier Univ.), discussing the Public Knowledge Project • Thomas Hickerson and Shawna Sadler on the Univ. of Calgary's Taylor Family Digital Library, a converged library, archive, art and publishing facility • Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins Univ.) with a Data Conservancy Update • Robert Seal (Loyola Univ.) reflects on three years of an information commons Library-ITS partnership

A new video from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting has been added to CNI's channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni):

Creating a Comprehensive Technology Model for a Converged Library, Archive, Art and Publishing Facility at the University of Calgary, a project briefing session presented by Thomas Hickerson (Vice Provost and University Librarian, University of Calgary) and Shawna Sadler (Technology Officer, Taylor Family Digital Library, University of Calgary)

More information about this presentation is available from the meeting Web site, http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/.

In this 18 minute podcast, recorded May 20, 2011, CNI director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID, selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse. Cliff also shares some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.

CNI Conversations is available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@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

I wanted to (belatedly) share the following announcement from our colleague Richard Eckman, the President of the Council of Independent Colleges of the availability of an extensive set of materials from an April 2011 Symposium on the Future of the Humanities. There's some great material in here, and it's wonderful to have it available for those of us who could not attend the symposium.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleague:

New videos from the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been added to CNI's channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni):

• UCLA Professor Todd Presner's plenary presentation, "HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive & Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome & Cairo" (http://youtu.be/WS-SLGAWxHY)

• "E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later," a breakout session by CNI Director Clifford Lynch (http://youtu.be/1WfRBOGc4AA)

More information about both of these presentations is available from the meeting Web site, http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/.

I highly recommend these new publications from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK. They treat such hot topics as search engine optimization, building good web resources, promoting content, and using the social web for your organization's resources.

-Joan Lippincott, CNI

For Information

I'm resending this, with a correction to the URL and a few other minor updates. Apologies. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

National Science Foundation Funded Workshop on "Research Data Lifecycle Management" July 18 - July 20 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

We are pleased to announce the NSF funded Workshop on "Research Data Lifecycle Management".

National Science Foundation Funded Workshop on "Research Data Lifecycle Management" July 18 - July 20 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

We are pleased to announce the NSF funded Workshop on "Research Data Lifecycle Management".

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, campus Information Technology (IT) leaders, and library/archive specialists to discuss the topic of data lifecycle management specifically as it relates to computational science and engineering research data. This discussion will result in a common understanding of best practices and funding models for selecting, storing, describing, and preserving these digital data. The workshop will also help to cultivate partnerships between these communities to foster continued developments in the preservation and sharing of research data.

We now seek applications for participation and submissions of position papers for the workshop. In order to apply, please go to https://rcs.columbia.edu/rdlm and follow the links to register. The deadline for applications is June 20, 2011, but we will review and accept applications on a rolling basis.