A Guide to the Fall 2009 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2009 CNI membership meeting, to be held at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, DC on December 14 and 15, 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 networked information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in Washington, DC 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 14. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by two rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, December 15, 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 till 7:00 PM on the evening of Monday, December 14, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in the Washington area.

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.

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Fall 2009 CNI Member Meeting is now available: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/schedule.html

We will be adding session abstracts and supplemental information throughout the week.

I will be posting meeting updates from my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/dgoldenberghart ) using the hashtag #cni09f and we encourage other twitterers to do the same.

Please tag blog posts about this meeting with cni2009fall for easy reference.

A preliminary list of project briefings to be delivered at the Fall 2009 CNI Task Force Meeting is now available online:

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. The meeting will be held in Washington, DC, December 14-15.

We look forward to seeing you in Washington!

An audio archive of the November 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). The discussion featured a preview of the upcoming fall CNI member meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff also reported on the recent ARL/CNI special collections forum, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and a new book on the Fourth Paradigm (a collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray, edited by Tony Hey, et al, and published by Microsoft Research). Participant questions included the revised Google Books settlement, Lawrence Lessig's EDUCAUSE keynote on copyright, and an update on the Open Annotation Collaboration.

About CNI Conversations: As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives. 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.

Here's information on an upcoming EDUCAUSE Live webcast on a timely topic.

"Complying with P2P Mandates in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008"

1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Monday, November 23. No charge, but registration required. Archived for future (re)viewing.

A final reminder to register for the Fall 2009 CNI membership meeting no later than FRIDAY, NOV. 13th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by this Friday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting Web site at:

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 Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel on December 14-15.

I'm very pleased to share this workshop announcement with the CNI community. The workshop will take place the day after the fall CNI meeting. I think this will be an important opportunity to look at the state of the art in measuring the impact of scholarly work and to shape the research agenda. I'll be moderating the closing panel.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The registration deadline for the Fall 2009 CNI membership meeting is this FRIDAY, NOV. 13th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting Web site at:

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 in at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel on December 14-15.

Dear CNI-ANNOUNCE subscribers,

CNI is pleased to offer 2 new information delivery initiatives designed to help you keep up with current happenings at CNI and within the broader community:

CNI News http://news.cni.org/

In order to improve the timeliness, accessibility, and discoverability of the latest information of interest to the community, CNI has launched a news feed at http://news.cni.org/feed; this resource has been developed to replace and improve upon the original CNI RSS feed. As a feed, readers can subscribed to CNI News using any feed reader or aggregator, or postings can be read (and searched) online at http://news.cni.org/ . CNI News is an alternative access method for the same information which has always been available from the CNI home page and from CNI- Announce listserv postings. NOTE: the CNI RSS news feed (www.cni.org/rssfeed.xml) has been discontinued; please update your readers accordingly.

Tomorrow I'll be speaking at Penn State at what is shaping up to be a very interesting Symposium on the RIght to Information Access. Streamed video of the symposium will be available. Here are the details:

Clifford Lynch CNI

Hello,

CNI Director Clifford Lynch will be a facilitator for the session "Initiatives from the NSF's DataNet Program: DataONE and the Data Conservancy" on Wed. Nov. 4th, 11:40am-12:30pm in the Korbel Ballroom 1A-C at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver, Colorado next week.

Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Director, will be co-leading the Library/IT Partnerships Discussion Session on Wed., Nov. 4 from 12:40 PM - 2:10 PM in meeting room 102.

Clifford Lynch will also present a Community Update on Nov. 4th to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will be from 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM in the Korbel Ballroom 1D. We particularly invite individuals who do not regularly attend CNI meetings to come to this introductory session.

Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/E2009 .

Seeking 2010 Kilgour Award Nominations

Nominations are invited for the 2010 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2009.

The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to the development of information technologies, in particular research which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information or how information and data are manipulated and managed. The Kilgour award consists of $2,000 cash, an award citation and an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference (airfare and two nights lodging).

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2009 Task Force Meeting are due this Friday, October 23. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/proposal.html . The fall meeting will be held December 14-15, 2009 in Washington, DC.

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

It's Open Access Week and on Friday, EDUCAUSE will feature two leaders discussing the movement. This session is free but registration is required. Joan Lippincott

"Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access"

A new book of essays titled The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, has been released by Microsoft Research and is available for download under a Creative Commons license at

Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, & Software Research

Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.

You can download the whole book, or individual sections or subsections. The book, edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kirstin Tolle, is being released in conjunction with the Microsoft E-science meeting currently being held at Carnegie-Mellon University. The book is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and explores his intellectual legacy in Earth and Environment, Health and Well Being, Scientific Infrastructure, and Scholarly Communication. Many of the chapters are by authors well-known within the CNI community, particularly in the Scholarly Communications section, which includes contributions by Timo Hanny, Paul Ginsparg, Herbert Van de Somple and Carl Lagoze; I also had the opportunity to contribute a chapter for this section. I would urge CNI-announce readers to at least browse beyond the Scholarly Communications section; there are a number of important chapters on broader developments in e-science that I think will be of interest. There's also a short interview wtih Tony Hey about the book at

Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, & Software Research

Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.

An audio archive of the October CNI Conversations session is now available at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations. During that discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium. Cliff also responded to participants' questions about the Bamboo Project, the trend for university libraries and university presses to work together, and the open access movement.

About CNI Conversations: As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations 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 upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives. 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.

For more information, contact: David Green Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 david@arl.org METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond

Organized by ARL, January 18-22, 2010 in Boston, MA

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Measurement Program is offering a five day workshop entitled METS: The Basics and Beyond to be held in partnership with Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich and Rick Beaubien of the METS Editorial Board. This workshop is aimed at people who work in digital and physical libraries and would like to gain knowledge and skills for organizing the many and disparate component parts of individual digital resources. Course Description

Although continuous, this hands-on workshop consists of three modules, any of which may be taken independently:

On September 22-23, 2009 I was fortunate to be able to attend a Workshop on Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation organized by the Library of Congress NDIIPP program. This workshop was one of a series that LC has convened in recent years to bring together people from the Federal Government, storage technology providers, NDIIPP partners and other specialists in digital preservation to focus on the interplay between the development of commercial large scale storage systems and the evolution of digital preservation systems. The presentations, along with a meeting summary prepared by the Library of Congress staff, are now available at:

I found many of these talks very valuable; the set of presentations on Data Integrity were particularly helpful. Each segment of the workshop included extensive discussion, and one point mentioned only in passing in the LC notes that I want to highlight for the CNI community was a developing initiative within the US Federal Government and the High Performance Computing community addressing Resilient Computing -- the design of systems that continue to function in useful ways even in the face of extensive component failures. Thusfar, much of the thinking in this area has focused on computational systems rather than storage systems (see, for example, the frightening report "Towards Exascale Resilience" at http://jointlab.ncsa.illinois.edu/pubs/Toward_Exascale_Resilience.pdf and additional materials hosted at http://institutes.lanl.gov/resilience/). I believe that these ideas are going to be very important in future thinking about how to design digital preservation systems that minimize and constrain loss, rather than pursuing perfectly lossless systems, which are likely to be both technologically and economically unachievable at very large scale, as some of the presentations at the LC Symposium suggest. I've expanded a little bit on these ideas in the October 6, 2009 CNI Conversation (the audio file of this session will be available very shortly at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/).

My thanks to the LIbrary of Congess for convening these meetings; they are a great service to the community.

Next week CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott will be presenting a session as part of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Live Webcast series.

Next Generation Information Commons: Retooling and Refining the Vision (Oct. 13, 2009; 11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern; 1.5 hours)

Some information commons are now more than ten years old and are in need of refreshing in terms of conception, configuration, technologies, and services. Others are so popular that additions are planned, either adjacent to the existing commons, on other floors, or in other buildings on campus. Through the use of principles and practical examples, participants will learn about trends in information and learning commons. A wide variety of photos will be used to illustrate the presentation.

This session will explore:

As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI has launched a program we are calling CNI Conversations, a series of sessions in which participants from member institutions take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others. The first event, which was done in audio-conference format, took place on September 15, 2009 and the recorded archive of that session is now available online at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations . In this session, discussion topics included the Google Book proposed settlement, DataNet, and library responses to the financial crisis, among other things.

Real-time participation in upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions. Dates for upcoming CNI Conversations were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representative. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these sessions 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.