The next CNI Conversations call will take place next Wed., Nov. 17 at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. Space is still available - contact Jackie Eudell at Jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

These events allow any individual affiliated with a CNI member organization to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call.

Recordings of CNI Conversations calls are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/; to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

The deadline to register for the Fall 2010 CNI membership meeting is this FRIDAY, NOV. 12th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. If you have questions about your meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA on December 13-14.

Plenary Sessions Daniel Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will present the plenary talk The Ivory Tower and the Open Web, and CNI Director Clifford Lynch will open the meeting with a presentation of the 2010-11 CNI Program Plan.

Project Briefings Over thirty-five project briefings will address key issues and report on innovative digital projects. Many of our members are grappling with institutional strategies to address the recent National Science Foundation (NSF) guidelines for inclusion of a data plan in grant proposals; representatives from Princeton and Purdue will discuss their campus's programs. Leaders from NSF will describe current program directions; Alan Blatecky will discuss NSF's cyberinfrastructure initiatives and Myron Gutmann and Amy Friedlander will describe a new activity of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has a new initiative, Seeking Evidence of Impact, examining broad issues related to how we demonstrate the role of technology in improving learning. Malcolm Brown, director of ELI and CNI's Joan Lippincott will facilitate this session, which will also encourage attendees to contribute examples and describe what kinds of programming would be useful to them in this area. Ira Fuchs of EDUCAUSE will provide an update on the Next Generation Learning Challenge, a major initiative to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion.

Many of you tune in regularly to the EDUCAUSE Live series and we try to highlight sessions that we think may particularly interest subscribers to cni-announce. This session highlights policy and legal issues related to computing in the cloud and should add to our understanding of institutional issues.

Follow the link to register for this free online session. -- Joan Lippincott

"Spotlight on Cloud Computing: Cloud Contracting"

Register now for the Nov. 17 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at Jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011) June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada http://www.jcdl2011.org Hosted by the University of Ottawa Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.

I recently recieved an announcement from the UK Royal Society indicating that in celebration of Open Access week they were opening their entire journal archive for free access till the end of the society's 350th anniversary year, 30 November 2010. This is a great opportunity to get access to two issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A from August and September 2010 which focus on E-science and contain a number of outstanding papers. See

and

CLIR has released a massive comprehensive draft report on the existing cyberinfrastructure and future needs to support classical studies, prepared by Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University. They are inviting comments over the coming month. See

for more background and a pointer to the draft report.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The podcast of the Oct. 22 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). During this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses the NSF data management requirements, as well as the National Academy’s updated report on the future of higher education, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, and ARL’s 2030 Scenario User’s Guide. Cliff also talks about other NSF activities (such as the Campus Bridging Task Force of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure), and archiving social media.

Associate Director Joan Lippincott discusses coordination between space planning initiatives and curriculum and learning objectives, and PKAL’s new program, the Learning Spaces Collaboratory. Listener queries have to do with the proposed budgetary cuts to higher education in the UK, and the organization The Quilt. About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real- time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

There's still time to register for the October 22 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2010 Membership Meeting are due this Friday, October 22. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/proposal.html . The fall meeting will be held December 13-14, 2010 in Arlington, VA.

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

We encourage you to take a look at the program for the International Digital Curation Conference and to register for this conference, to be held in Chicago on Dec. 6-8, 2010. --Joan Lippincott

The updated IDCC10 programme including all the accepted papers is now available on the DCC website. It is available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme with a link at both the top and bottom of the page to the PDF.

Register now for the October 22 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Director, will participate in a discussion session on the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Evidence of Impact Project on Thursday, Oct. 14 from 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM in meeting room 204B. The hash tag for this session is #E10_SESS070.

Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott will also present a Community Update on Oct. 13th to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will be from 4:50 PM - 5:40 PM in meeting room 210A. The hash tag for this session is #E10_UPD01. We particularly invite individuals who do not regularly attend CNI membership meetings to come to this introductory session.

Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/E2010 .

We look forward to seeing you there!

The High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data has submitted a report to the European Commission titled "Riding the Wave: How Europe Can Gain From The Rising Tide of Scientific Data", which can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=6204

My thanks to Herbert Van de Sompel (a member of the expert group) for the pointer to this work.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The US National Science Foundation has posted some material on the new requirements for data management plans. In particular, see

Preparing Your Data Management and Sharing Plan - Funding at NSF | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

which includes a pointer to the overall Grant Proposal Guide language on data management plans, a pointer to the NSF data sharing policy, and some additional pointers to specific requirements for individual directorates and programs.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

In 2005 the National Academies issued a major report titled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" that looked at the future of higher education in the United States in the context of national economic competitiveness. Dan Atkins discussed this work at a keynote talk in one of our meetings.

Today, the Academies have published an update to this report, authored by the surviving members of the same committee (except for two who currently hold cabinet positions in the Obama administration), titled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5".

There's a press release at the National Academies site:

News and Stories

To contact the Office of News and Public Information staff, visit the Press and Media Page.

CNI is again co-sponsoring this event.

"Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade" 6-8 December 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This year's International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

The the archived audio recording of the Sept. 14 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). In this session, Clifford Lynch discusses the Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation (NSF) requesting comments on big challenges and new opportunities for the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, and he reports on a meeting of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure Campus Bridging Task Force, a group charged with examining the coordination between national level resources and investments made by individual campuses. Cliff also talks about the status of the UK data service and the Wolfram Data Summit. Joan Lippincott reports on the new EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) assessment project, Evidence of Impact. About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real- time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

CNI is a supporting organization for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting.

SPARC announces international slate of presenters for November meeting Early bird registration deadline extended to 9/26

Washington, DC – Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and Asia will test new frontiers in online open archives at the 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The international gathering, organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) in cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, will take place November 8 & 9, with pre- and post-conference events November 7 & 10.

The US National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) has issued a call for brief papers outlining grand challenge problems for the next decade or more in these fields. Given the rich and complex large-scale interactions among information, technology, individuals and societies, this seems to me to be a wonderful opportunity for the CNI community to offer perspectives on the research opportunities and challenges, as well as ideas about infrastructure capabilities and requirements.

I would note that the Science Resource Statistics division, which seeks to understand the structure and development of science broadly, is also part of the SBE directorate.

There is a short deadline on these submissions, which are requested by September 30, 2010.

You can find full information on this call (in the form of an NSF "Dear Colleague" letter) at: