Last fall, the Social, Behavorial and Economic Directorate of the US National Science Foundation issued a call to the community for papers describing opportunities for new research in the 2020 timeframe as a way of informing NSF's development of new research programs. We had a session at the December 2010 CNI meeting where NSF provided some initial summaries of themes from these papers.

The papers have been available for a few weeks at the NSF site, but I waited to announce them here until the summary file of all abstracts was available; there are a large number of papers and they are difficult to scan without such a file. There are some fascinating papers here.

The links to the papers and the summary file are at

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I'm posting below a message from Jeanne Narum, the Principal of the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory. This program has just launched its website and there is lots of information available for those of you planning learning spaces - resources (papers, presentations) as well as descriptions of upcoming events. I am pleased that CNI is a collaborating partner, and I serve on the Advisory Committee of the initiative. --Joan Lippincott

Welcome to the home of the new PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory (PKAL LSC): http://www.pkallsc.org/

This Collaboratory embraces the broad community of those responsible for the quality and character of the physical learning environment— academics and architects, as well as a wide range of other stakeholders.

In the February 17, 2011 podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch talks about the Paul Evan Peters Award, to be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman at CNI’s spring meeting on April 4 in San Diego, CA; Borgman will present the Peters’ Lecture at that time. Cliff also makes note of a recent announcement made by the California Digital Library and partners regarding data management plans.

Both Cliff and Joan Lippincott, CNI associate director, reflect on the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) meeting in Washington, DC and the 2011 Horizon Report.

CNI Conversations continues to be 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.

Another excellent free webinar from our colleagues at EDUCAUSE. Don't forget to register (instructions below). --Joan Lippincott

Next Friday, EDUCAUSE Live! will consider "The Future of Fair Use".

CNI is a co-sponsor of this event.

The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit Denver, CO | Hyatt Regency | March 31-April 1, 2011

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Early Registration deadline is on or before 2/18/2011

A new video from CNI's 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). In Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, MITH Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum and University of Maryland doctoral candiate Rachel Donahue present a summary of findings from the recently published CLIR report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, as well as a report from an associated symposium conducted at the University of Maryland in May 2010.

More information about this session, as well as a link to the CLIR report, are accessible from the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-linked-negulescu.html .

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

UCLA Professor Christine Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award

Washington, DC - February 14, 2011 - The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that Christine L. Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity through communication networks.

Named for CNI’s founding director, the award will be presented during the CNI Membership Meeting in San Diego, CA to be held April 4–5, 2011, where Borgman will deliver the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture. Previous award recipients include Daniel Atkins (2008), Paul Ginsparg (2006), Brewster Kahle (2004), Vinton Cerf (2002), and Tim Berners-Lee (2000).

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast. CNI Conversations continues to be available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

In the February 10, 2011 podcast, Cliff talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) call for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020. Cliff also discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving conference, as well as issues surrounding e-books.

We hope you enjoys 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.

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting are no later than this Friday, February 19. Proposals may be submitted by email to joan@cni.org, or via the online form available at

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

The meeting will be held April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. The Paul Evan Peters Award and Lecture will open the meeting and UCLA professor Todd Presner, founder and director of the collaborative, digital mapping platform HyperCities, will be the closing plenary speaker. The meeting hashtag is #cni11s.

Over the past few months, the UK Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) has been carrying out a major review of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). JISC is the organization that funds advanced networking, content licensing, and many other vital activities for the UK higher education sector; it has provided key leadership for many innovations, and is widely recognized as a world leader. CNI and JISC have collaborated on numerous areas over the years, and have hosted a series of meetings to bring together US and UK leaders to explore developments of common interest.

The report of the review, along with an initial JISC response, can be found at

(the link to the report is towards the bottom of the page)

The February 11, 2011 issue of Science has a special section titled "Dealing with Data" with a number of papers and articles covering data intensive science and data curation issues. They have set up a web site that consolidates some of the material from this issue and some related topical material from other Science journals (Signaling, Translational Medicine, Careers) for public access (registration required for non-subscribers) at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The 2011 Horizon Report, a collaborative initiative of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is now available for free download from: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

Each year the report identifies and describes key trends that a group of experts believe will have an impact on teaching, learning and creative inquiry. This year, some of those trends are: electronic books, mobiles, augmented reality, game-based learning, gesture-based computing, and learning analytics.

I highly recommend this report for those who wish to get a concise overview of important trends; in addition, the report includes examples of existing uses of the technologies it highlights and provides links to additional materials. Full disclosure - I served as a member of the Advisory Board for the second year.

The Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the National Academies is presenting a Symposium on Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Network Envrionments in Washington DC on March 10, 2011. You can find the agenda and other background materials at

This promises to be an extremely interesting day, and there are some wonderful speakers (full disclosure: I'm thrilled to be part of one of the afternoon panels). The Symposium is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is requested.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting are due Friday, February 18. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at

The spring meeting will be held April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA.

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

A new video from CNI's 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls... Where Are We and Why Isn't There Broader Adoption? features case studies by speakers from Cornell University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Internet Archive, as well as a summary presentation by MIT's MacKenzie Smith.

Presentation slides and handouts from this session are accessible from the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-linked-negulescu.html .

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

CIO Sally Jackson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) discusses cyberinfrastructure impact assessment, and why it's important, in this project briefing session, presented at CNI's December 2010 meeting. Video of the presentation is available on both of CNI's channels: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

For more information about the session, and for access to the presentation materials, visit the project briefing page at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-assessing-jackson.html .

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 video of a well-attended CNI Fall meeting session on "NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives" is now available on both Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni . Serge Goldstein of Princeton and Scott Brandt of Purdue provided information on what their institutions are doing to support their researchers' needs to include data management plans as part of grant proposals to the National Science Foundation.

In addition, you can find the presenters' Powerpoint presentations and other materials on our meeting website at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-nsf-goldstein.html .

I know many campuses are tackling similar issues and I hope can benefit from the work highlighted at our meeting.

Joan Lippincott Associate Director, CNI

Following up on my recent post about "The New Renaissance" report on digital cultural heritage in the European context, I wanted to share this recent press release announcing the availability of the Strategic Plan 2011-2015 for the Europeana program. I think this will be of interest to any organization looking at strategies for capturing, organizing and sharing digital cultural heritage materials at scale.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Press Release For immediate release The Hague 19.01.11

I know many of our cni-announce subscribers are interested in developments in the mobile environment. This webcast will describe a wide range of responses by one campus to the mobile environment. Don't forget to register for this free EDUCAUSE event. --Joan Lippincott

Friday, January 21, EDUCAUSE Live! will discuss mobile computing at the University of Maryland.

"Spotlight on Mobile Computing: Stories of Mobile Learning"

The video of Professor Dan Cohen's wonderful closing session "The Ivory Tower and the Open Web" is now available on both Youtube (at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

You can also find a copy of his presentation at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/cni_ivory_cohen.pdf

This is an extremely wide-ranging presentation that I think will be of interest to almost everybody in the CNI community; I know that a number of people who saw the talk live told me that it was so rich, and thought provoking in so many different ways, that they were eager to have a chance to watch it again. Many others were eager to share it with colleauges and students.

A must-see.