Over the next few weeks we'll be rolling out the videos from the Spring 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Member Meeting held in San Diego on April 4-5, 2011. I'm delighted to be able to announce today our first offering, which is the Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture "Information, Infrastructure and The Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet TIme", given by Professor Christine Borgman of UCLA to open the meeting.

CNI's video channels are YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni) and you can access this talk directly at

Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time

on YouTube.

Cliff Lynch's keynote address Information Technology as a Strategic Campus Resource, presented at the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) 2011 conference is now available:

The final versions of the six reports from the task forces established by the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure are now available. I've shared earlier pointers to drafts of a couple of these, but this page points to the final, "official" versions. The reports are here:

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From the introductory material on the page:

I've been serving on the planning committee for a joint EDUCAUSE-CASC workshop on Data Lifecycle Management that will be funded by NSF; this funding is now in place, and the dates are set for July 18-20, 2011 in Princeton. See the announcement below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We received NSF funding today for our joint workshop with CASC on Data Lifecycle Management. The workshop will be held July 18 - 20, 2011 in Princeton, NJ. We will send out complete information soliciting position papers and applications to attend the workshop (which will be limited to 75 attendees) later this week. The steering committee is comprised of Curt Hillegas, Princeton University - Chair; Raj Bose, Columbia University; Cliff Lynch, CNI; Oren Sreebny, University of Chicago; and Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University.

On May 3-5, 2010 NSF sponsored a workshop at Cornell University on "Sustainable Funding and Business Models for High Performance Computing Centers". They have a site available which includes materials from this workshop, a final report, and a large collection of contributed position papers. This material will be helpful not only for institutions considering high performance computing and cyberinfrastructure funding strategies and models, but perhaps also offer insights for development of sustainability strategies for other kinds of scholarly resources.

The site is at

My thanks to David Lifka at Cornell for the pointer to this site.

I'm very pleased to be able to share the call for papers for the 2011 Interational Data Curation Conference,which is being held in Bristol in the UK this year, and to be able to say that CNI is again collaborating with the UK Digital Curation Center on this important event.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

7th International Digital Curation Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS Title: "Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape" 5 - 7 December 2011, Bristol, UK

The new EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons is now available; CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott served as an advisor on its development:

The Board of Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the U.S. National Academies is co-sponsoring a free two-day symposium on April 18-19 on international scientific data sharing, with focus on developing countries. I've reproduced the announcement, agenda, and pointer to registration below. This is a great opportunity to take an in-depth look at a range of developments and policy issues that have gotten limited visibility in many of the recent conversations about scientific data sharing.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear colleague:

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

The Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel in San Diego, California on April 4 and 5, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the customary "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in networked information.

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, April 4. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by two rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 5, includes 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 the evening of Monday, April 4, after which participants can enjoy a free evening in San Diego. I've had two opportunities to visit the San Diego Gaslamp district in the past year, and it offers a wide range of dining opportunities within easy walking distance of the Westin.

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. Information about wireless access in the meeting room areas will be available at the registration table.

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/schedule.html

Links from this page lead to session abstracts; we are continuing to add supplemental information as it becomes available.

The meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) will be available for download very soon.

We will be posting meeting updates from the CNI Twitter account (http://twitter.com/cni_org ) using the hashtag #cni11s and we encourage other twitterers to do the same.

The March 15, 2011 podcast of CNI Conversations includes discussion on a wide variety of topics by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, including:

*a report on peer review from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)

*the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive

*Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence

The Center for the Study for Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, has just published the report of its project on peer review and its role in academic tenure and review and in scholarly publishing. The project included both extensive background papers and also a workshop (which I was fortunate to be able to attend). Full details in the release from CSHE reproduced below. I think this is a valuable look at a much under-explored area and should be of interest to many CNI-announce readers.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We are delighted to announce the publication of:

Jeff Ubois has just sent out the following announcement of availability of the videos from the recent Personal Digital Archiving meeting hosted at the Internet Archive. One talk that I found particularly provocative and highly reccomend is the one by Daniel Reetz (it's one up from the bottom of the list, just before my talk), but there were many others that were outstanding. The conference was heavily blogged, and Jeff has also provided pointers to some of these.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Thank you for attending and sharing your thoughts and ideas at Personal Digital Archiving 2011.

I wanted to share the announcement that came out earlier this week for the second round of the Digging into Data Challenge. This is a very important initiative that facilitates both international and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance the use of computational technologies for large cultural corpora. It also represents a substantial collaboration among a range of funding bodies that support work in this area.

CNI has featured work from this initiative (and related efforts) at our recent membership meetings, and we look foward to continue to track developments on behalf of our member community.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for sessions that were video recorded at CNI’s fall 2010 meeting. Also, an interview conducted with Carl Grant, Chief LIbrarian at Ex Libris, is now available. In his conversation with EDUCAUSE's Gerry Bayne, Carl discusses recommender services and how they compare to other search tools, social networking enhancements in libraries, privacy issues, the future of libraries, and more. Interview with Carl Grant, Ex Libris http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/cni10-grant.mp3

Cliff Lynch’s opening address http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101213_MMF10_Opening_CLynch.mp3

Daniel Cohen’s talk, The Ivory Tower and the Open Web http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101214_MMF10_Closing_DCohen.mp3

Project briefing, Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101214_PBF10_Cyberinfrastructure_SJackson.mp3

The latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://conversations.cni.org/) provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting by Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings. Cliff also talks about his newly-added session E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later, in which he will look back at his 2001 article “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6), consider what he got right and what he got wrong ten years ago, and, more importantly, discuss unexpected developments and the current state of play in both scholarly and mass-market publishing.

CNI's spring membership meeting will be held in San Diego, CA on April 4-5, 2011 - registration deadline is March 7. Visit http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring for details.

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 draft report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging, established by the NSF's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastucture in early 2009, is now available for review and comment. This is a substantial report that looks carefully at the interconnections between campus strategies and investments on one side, and national scale initiatives on the other. I've attached the announcement from the Task Force chair below, which provides more detail on the report and ways to submit comments.

Disclosure: I've been priviliged to be able to serve on this Task Force.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The proposal submission deadline has been extended for the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11). This year the conference will feature a new presentation format, called "24x7 Presentations", a block of presentations on a single theme, each of which can be no more than 24 slides or 7 minutes in length. And of course there will be user group meetings, workshops, tutorials, and (as always) a developers' challenge.

2-4 page proposals for presentations should be submitted by March 7, 2011.

• All proposals are due by March 7 (extended by one week from the original 2/28 date)
• Notification date for papers & panels: April 4, 2011
• Notification date for 24x7's, Posters, Workshops: April 14, 2011
• Conference dates: June 7 - 11

More information can be found at these key links:

The registration deadline for the Spring 2011 CNI membership meeting is MONDAY, MARCH 7th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made arrangements for hotel accommodations, please do so by Monday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. The meeting will be held in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter at the Westin Hotel on April 4-5; consult the meeting Web site at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring for accommodation details. If you have questions about your registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org.

Plenary sessions -The Paul Evan Peters Award will be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman, who will deliver the Peters Lecture: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time. -Todd Presner, founder and director of the collaborative, digital mapping platform HyperCities, will present the closing plenary address: HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo.

Project Briefings A preliminary list of breakout sessions to be presented at the spring meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring/project.html Please note that this is a preliminary list and that details are subject to change. Session abstracts will be added soon, and a full conference schedule will be posted upon finalization.

Follow the meeting on Twitter: #cni11s

CNI's spring membership meeting will be held April 4-5 in San Diego, CA. The Paul Evan Peters Award will be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman, who will deliver the Peter's Lecture: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet: Reflections on Three Decades in Internet Time. Todd Presner, founder and director of the collaborative, digital mapping platform HyperCities, will present the closing plenary address: HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo.

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

Check back frequently as we expect to add a few more titles to the line-up, and project briefing abstracts and a finalized scheduled will be posted shortly!