All the links are collected here:

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference

As I mentioned in the December 2010 CNI Conversations, two of the sessions I found most compelling were those by Chris Lintott of Galaxy Zoo about the design of systems to support citizen scientist engagement, and the really frightening talk by Anthony Williams about quality and consistency issues across reference and research support databases in chemistry.  There is video of both of these sessions available through Vimeo.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/220937

The podcasts include:
* A conversation with MacKenzie Smith of MIT on linked open data and the latest from MIT’s Simile Project
* 2011 initiatives planned for the Library of Congress National Digital Preservation Program from Martha Anderson and Laura Campbell
* Dean Krafft on re-imagining IT at Cornell University

These recordings are designed to function as an extension of the meeting, complementing the standard program, and providing an opportunity for the broader CNI community to hear from some of our key presenters and attendees.

The meeting was held December 13-14, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

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. 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.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html

I’ve reproduced the CLIR announcement below to provide some additional background on this very interesting work, which I think will have particular relevance to the management of digital “personal papers” by archives and special collections in future.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Report Examines Use of Digital Forensics Tools and Methods
in Cultural Heritage Sector

December 14, 2010-The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today released a report examining how the cultural heritage community can benefit from methods and tools developed for work in digital forensics.

The report, Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, was written by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Richard Ovenden, and Gabriela Redwine, with research assistance from Rachel Donahue.

Digital forensics was once specialized to fields of law enforcement, computer security, and national defense, but the growing ubiquity of computers and electronic devices means that digital forensics is now used in a variety of circumstances.

Because most records today are born digital, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions increasingly receive computer storage media-and sometimes entire computers-as part of their acquisition of “papers.” Staff at these institutions face challenges such as accessing and preserving legacy formats, recovering data, ensuring authenticity, and maintaining trust. The methods and tools that forensics experts have developed can be useful in meeting these challenges. For example, the same forensics software that indexes a criminal suspect’s hard drive allows the archivist to prepare a comprehensive manifest of the electronic files a donor has turned over for accession.

The report introduces the field of digital forensics in the cultural heritage sector and explores some points of convergence between the interests of those charged with collecting and maintaining born-digital cultural heritage materials and those charged with collecting and maintaining legal evidence.

Kirschenbaum is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Ovenden is associate director and keeper of special collections of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and a professional fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Redwine is archivist and electronic records/metadata specialist at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Donahue is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland’s iSchool and research assistant at MITH. The authors conducted their research and writing with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections is available electronically at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html. Print copies will be available in January for ordering through CLIR’s Web site, for $25 per copy plus shipping and handling.

http://www.cni.org/program/

We will also be mailing printed copies to our member representatives.

The Fall meeting was a great success; in the coming weeks we’ll be releasing video of the plenary sessions and a few selected breakouts, and also making available presentation materials on the CNI Web site.

With best wishes for the holidays.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The Guide’s authors are actively seeking information on additional resources libraries are creating. The Google group, ARL Data Sharing Support Group, has been established as a contact point for librarians interested in sharing and exchanging information on their efforts to advance and support researchers creating data management and sharing plans. Individuals can join the group by emailing http://groups.google.com/group/arl-data-sharing-support-group.

The Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy is freely accessible at http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/nsf/index.shtml.

For more information, contact:
Karla Strieb
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org

The Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on December 13 and 14, 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 digital information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in the Washington, DC area 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 13. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by two rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, December 14, 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 7:00 PM on Monday evening, December 13, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in the Crystal City and Washington areas. Downtown Washington, DC is a quick taxi ride or accessible via the METRO, which is directly connected to the Crystal Gateway hotel.

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.

The Plenary Sessions

As is usual at our fall meetings, I have reserved the opening plenary session to address key developments in networked information, discuss progress on the Coalition’s agenda, and highlight selected initiatives from the 2010-2011 Program Plan. This year, I’ll also announce a special project that we have planned to recognize the Coalition’s 20th anniversary. The Program Plan will be distributed at the meeting (and will be available electronically on the Coalition’s Web site,www.cni.org around December 13). I look forward to sharing the Coalition’s continually evolving strategy with you, as well as discussing current issues. The opening plenary will include time for questions and discussion, and I am eager to hear your comments.

The closing plenary, scheduled to start at 2:15PM on Tuesday, will be given by Professor Dan Cohen, the Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Dan is well known to many within the CNI community as one of the leaders of the new generation of humanists making very sophisticated use of digital media and tools; you may have read about some of his research work with the Google book corpus recently in the New York Times. Or you may have used Zotero; Dan has led the development of this project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to extend the Firefox browser with a highly sophisticated citation manager that exploits social networking. He worked closely with the late Roy Rosenzweig on their milestone book Digital History, and has also authored Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith on his research into the intellectual history of Victorian-era mathematics. Among his many other contributions, he has been a great help to me in recent years as an at-large member of the CNI steering committee.

Dan has a new book, The Ivory Tower and the Open Web, coming out in 2011; in his plenary address he will explore some of the key theses of this work, which looks at the interplay and disconnects between the traditional scholarly communication system and the new genres of communication that continue to develop on the Web. I continue to be fascinated by Dan’s ability to draw out insightful new relationships between seemingly disparate developments and to reframe questions about the future of scholarship. I can guarantee that this will be a deeply thought-provoking discussion.

Highlighted Breakout Sessions

I will not attempt to comprehensively summarize the wealth of breakout sessions here. However, I want to note particularly some sessions that have strong connections to the Coalition’s 2010-2011 Program Plan and also a few other sessions of special interest, and to provide some additional context for a few sessions that may be helpful to attendees in making session choices. We have a packed agenda of breakout sessions, and, as always, will try to put material from these sessions on our Web site following the meeting for those who were unable to attend.

A major continuing theme at this meeting is developments in cyberinfrastructure and data curation. We are delighted to have Alan Blatecky of the National Science Foundation (NSF) present an overall update on NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering. Over the past year, NSF has had a number of advisory task forces that are now reporting back with recommendations to inform the development of this framework, so this is an ideal time to assess developments. National level cyberinfrastructure work must link up with campus-based strategies; we’ll have a presentation by Sally Jackson, CIO at the University of Illinois, on the impact of institutional cyberinfrastructure on research initiatives. Another important development has been the announcement that NSF will join the National Institutes of Health in requiring data management plans as part of grant applications, effective January 2011; while this has been expected, details only began to be available in October, and many of our member institutions are now moving very quickly to ensure that they can support their faculty in responding to these mandates. Princeton and Purdue will describe their institutional models for data management and participants are encouraged to discuss what is developing on their campuses. We will also have a session on preserving social science research data using Fedora.

In the past two years, linked open data has received a lot of attention as a model for making data-particularly scientific data-available and for interconnecting a wide range of data resources. Uptake, however, has been patchy. We will have a panel that critically examines the prospects and barriers for linked open data, which I hope will help us gain a more balanced assessment of the technologies and related organizational and social initiatives.

Myron Gutmann, NSF’s newly-appointed Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, issued an extraordinary public call for views on the new opportunities and priorities for social sciences research in 2020. Myron and Amy Friedlander will present an initial survey and analysis of responses to this call and offer preliminary thoughts on how the research agenda in these disciplines may evolve.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has produced an exceptionally good set of scenarios sketching possible futures for the research enterprise; I think these will find wide applicability in institutional strategic planning efforts. Karla Strieb, who led the ARL work, will present these scenarios and discuss ways in which they might be employed.

Several briefings will focus on issues related to scholarly communications, repositories, and publishing. Representatives from the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and Duke University Press will discuss various models of scholarly publishing and collaborative strategies. ProQuest will describe developments in the company’s thesis and dissertation publishing program. We will have a session on a project that is looking at a LOCKSS solution of open access materials from German institutional repositories. Representatives from the Center for Research Libraries and Portico will discuss a certification and assessment process for trusted digital repositories from the perspectives of auditor and repository operator.

As libraries approach digitization of their own collections, a common stumbling block is what to do about materials that may still be under copyright protection. Three universities will describe their policies, strategies, and workflows for these types of materials in their digitization projects.

We will have a report on the OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections, which provides perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for these materials in the digital environment. Stanford University will describe its framework, involving librarians from various units, for adding Web materials to its collections. The Library of Congress will provide an update on its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and its initiatives for 2011; they are tackling some very complex issues related to born-digital collections. David Kirsch of the University of Maryland has been doing some outstanding work on the public interest in the long-term preservation of private business and organizational records and will report on his recent work in this area within the NDIIPP.

There has been a good deal of interest in the possible applications of computer forensics techniques to the ingest and management of personal digital archives; probably the deepest examination of the possibilities here has been the work of Matthew Kirschenbaum and his colleagues at the University of Maryland, which were presented earlier this year in an excellent symposium that I was fortunate to be able to attend. They have prepared a major report on these issues, and will summarize this work for us.

A number of sessions will demonstrate the wide variety of work that is taking place related to digital scholarship, particularly in the humanities. One briefing will highlight a unique collection of Cuban theater materials at the University of Miami. Another will focus on jazz discography and a collaborative Web site developed at Columbia University. The University of Nebraska and Brown University will describe their programs for working with digital humanities scholars and will also discuss the facilities and staff that support this work. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a new laboratory for digital cultural heritage will provide a state-of-the-art facility for collaborative work on digital initiatives, involving faculty, librarians, IT, and students. Another session will describe innovative digital humanities initiatives in liberal arts colleges, bringing undergraduates into direct contact with the work of digital scholars.

Bamboo, a large-scale, multi-institutional program to support digital humanities has moved from planning to implementation, with a focused agenda that emphasizes the development of common virtual research environments and tools and resources that can interoperate within them. We’ll have a presentation on this new stage of the initiative, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

As digital collections increase in number, size, and complexity, there is a growing need for new tools for librarians, researchers and scholars. Annotation of resources in the digital environment has been an ongoing area of tool development, and we will have a report from Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, and Tim Cole about progress being made by the Open Annotation project. The bX Recommender service will assist the discovery process in online libraries, using an approach that is informed by data about user search behavior. The University of Georgia will discuss its trial of a central index discovery tool and the University of Nevada Las Vegas will report on its survey of vendor “Web-scale” discovery services. We will have reports from two projects at the National Library of Medicine, one that will describe the infrastructure of the new MedlinePlus Connect service and one that provides an update on NLM DTDs. In a project funded by the DFG (German Science Foundation), researchers are focusing on techniques to automate the processing of historic documents when optical character recognition (OCR) is not possible; they will describe their Venod system. We will also have a report from MIT on the updating of the popular Exhibit tool.

Sessions focusing on campus IT projects include an institutional reorganization and revamping of IT services at Cornell University, as well as a project at Emory University that seeks to understand cloud-based capacity for a variety of digital projects.

A number of sessions will provide insights into new developments related to teaching and learning and the educational process. Ira Fuchs, in his new role at EDUCAUSE, will discuss the recently launched Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative, which will be making grants to projects that show promise for dramatically improving college readiness and completion. We will learn about the new EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) project Evidence of Impact, which seeks to understand ways in which institutions are currently gathering and analyzing evidence of the impact of technology-based innovations in teaching and learning. CNI’s Joan Lippincott will join ELI’s Malcolm Brown in presenting this session. VTLS Inc. will present its system for multi-channel streaming media of course presentations and the way in which it can enhance learning. Columbia University and ARTstor will discuss multimedia analysis software that can be used by students to tag, annotate, clip, and embed images, audio, and video into individual and group multimedia projects. An innovative project that reaches out to library users is the Public WOW interface and display at Case Western Reserve University Library; it highlights all types of library usage data, raising awareness of the many ways people use the library.

Finally, the Association of College & Research Libraries will highlight findings from their Value of Academic Libraries initiative and describe next steps.

There is much more, and I invite you to browse the complete list of breakout sessions and their full abstracts at the CNI Web site. In many cases you will find these abstracts include pointers to reference material that you may find useful to explore prior to the session, and after the meeting we will add material from the actual presentations, including selected video recordings, when they available to us. You can also follow the meeting via Twitter, using the hashtag #cni10f.

I look forward to seeing you in Arlington, Virginia this December for what promises to be another extremely worthwhile meeting. Please contact me (cliff@cni.org), or Joan Lippincott, CNI’s Associate Director (joan@cni.org) if we can provide you with any additional information on the meeting.

Clifford Lynch

http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/schedule.html

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

Additionally, the meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) is available for download from:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/project.html

We will be posting meeting updates from the CNI Twitter account (http://twitter.com/cni_org) using the hashtag #cni10f and we encourage other twitterers to do the same.

The meeting will be held in Arlington, VA, December 13-14.

We look forward to seeing you in Arlington!

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.

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.

http://www.personalarchiving.com/2010/11/call-for-participation-for-pda-2011/

and there is registration information at

http://pda2011.eventbrite.com/

CNI was heavily involved in the 2010 edition of this meeting, and I’m delighted to be part of the program commitee for the 2011 meeting. This is a genuinely strategic meeting that explores key issues surrounding evolving social practices that will reshape everything from the future of special collections to the practice of public and social history in the next decade or two. You can find a great deal of information about last year’s meeting through the links on the personalarchiving.com page, including presentation videos.

I hope that your organization will consider attending if this is relevant to your strategic planning.

We’ll also have a session at the Spring CNI member meeting summarizing the outcomes of this meeting.

My thanks to Jeff Ubois and the Internet Archive for their leadership in helping to advance work on this profoundly important set of issues.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to attend a public symposium on The Value of Shared Access and Reuse of Publicly
Funded Scientific Data. The event is being organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Research
Data and Information, and will be held on the afternoon of December 1 in Washington, DC. A formal invitation
with the summary description of the symposium, the location, and RSVP instructions may be found below.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who you think may be interested. More complete information
about the event and the Board on Research Data and Information is at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi.
The symposium will be webcast, if you cannot attend in person, but we hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Paul Uhlir
Director, Board on Research Data and Information

INVITATION

The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m.
20 F Street Conference Center
Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC

This symposium will examine some of the research, economic, and social benefits that can be derived from providing online access to publicly-funded scientific data, as well as how such benefits can be evaluated. The event will include presentations on the scientific data sharing and reuse policies of the federal government; compelling examples of the value of free online access and unfettered reuse of data; methods of assessing the value and effects of shared access and reuse on research, the economy, and society; and prepared comments by Board members. The symposium is open to the public, but advance registration is requested (contact: Cheryl Levey, clevey@nas.edu or call 202-334-1531).

Moderator:
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University and Board Chair

Speakers:
Interagency Working Group on Digital Data, OSTP (invited)
Rod Atkinson and Jan Johansson, Congressional Research Service
Neil S. Buckholtz, National Institute on Aging, NIH
Carl Shapiro, U.S. Geological Survey
Heather Joseph, SPARC
Michael Carroll, Washington School of Law, American University
Paul David, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University

Panel discussion of invited speakers and Board members
and
General discussion with the audience

20F Street Conference Center
Conference Room B, 20 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested because of space limitations.

RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey@nas.edu.
For additional information about the program, please visit
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir@nas.edu or 202-334-1531.

The Symposium will be webcast–see the Board website for details on December 1.

Full information on the meeting is here:

http://citp.princeton.edu/events/big-data/

Clifford Lynch
Director, Coalition for Networked Information

http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/project.html

Session abstracts and a finalized scheduled will be posted shortly.

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.

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.

Presenters from the University of Michigan, Cornell, and Duke will address new digital publishing strategies. Leaders from the Bamboo Technology Project will describe the new phase of their initiative to address needs of the humanities e-research community.

This diverse set of project briefings is only a small sample of the sessions that will be available at the fall meeting. More details are forthcoming on the meeting Web site: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/

We look forward to seeing you in Arlington!

Follow the link to register for this free online session.
– Joan Lippincott
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“Spotlight on Cloud Computing: Cloud Contracting”

http://www.educause.edu/live1031

1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Wednesday, November 10. No charge, but registration required. Archived for future (re)viewing.

Speaker:
Steven J. McDonald, General Counsel, Rhode Island School of Design

Summary:
Cloud computing raises not only technical but also legal and policy issues. All of them come into play — and should come into focus — in the contract. In this session, we’ll review some of the most common issues that can (and should) arise in cloud contracts, as well as general approaches to contracting, both individual and collective. And, just when you thought Halloween was over, we’ll also explore the process — and pleasures — of collaborating with your lawyer to get everything worked out.

EDUCAUSE Live! on Twitter:
Use #EDULive to discuss this or any EDUCAUSE Live! Webcast on Twitter before or after the event.

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.

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
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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.

The theme for JCDL 2011 is “Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data”, in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship, broadly writ. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education. Additionally in a number of disciplines we are seeing funding agency directives to include with primary scholarship those materials on which the scholarship is based such as data sets both in the sciences and humanities. Further, we are seeing more focus on requirements for managing data for use in the future by other scholars.

The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in these areas, and submissions associated with the JCDL 2011 theme of “Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data” are particularly welcome. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will cover all these aspects.

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, data science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate.

JCDL 2011 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable Digital Libraries.

All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL 2011 submission Web page, following ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html format guidelines and using the ACM template. Please submit all papers in PDF format.

http://www.clir.org/activities/details/infrastructure.html

for more background and a pointer to the draft report.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1925.toc

and

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1926.toc

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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.

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.