CNI News

This week, our friends at the Jisc and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) released their 2015 faculty study conducted by Ithaka S+R on the ways that academics value and use libraries and their services. Announcement … [Read more...]

Registration is now open for the 2016 Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News conference, which will be hosted by the University of California Los Angeles Library October 13-14, 2016. There is no charge to attend, but space is limited. The Institute of … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this recent announcement from our friends at the Digital Preservation Coalition on the important and somewhat neglected topic of preserving transactional data. Clifford Lynch Director, … [Read more...]

New videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting are now available: An Ocean of Data: A Metadata and DOI Strategy for Large, Dynamic Data about the World’s Oceans describes the decisions and strategy to develop metadata and to assign digital object … [Read more...]

The Pacific Neighborhood is holding its annual meeting in the United States this year; it will be held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA August 16-18. I'm thrilled to be one of the speakers this year; I had the honor of speaking at the founding … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the announcement for this conference, which is taking place at the University of Notre Dame  Sept 30-Oct 1, 2016. I'm delighted to be doing the opening keynote. My understanding is that registration is free, which is wonderful. Clifford … [Read more...]

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is hosting a full day symposium titled "Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What's on the Internet" on June 16, 2016. Full information is … [Read more...]

Earlier this week the Obama administration issued a new report titled "The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan" as the latest step in its overall big data initiative. You can find the announcement on the Office of Science and … [Read more...]

The Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society, an interdisciplinary working group established in 2014, has just this week issued a report titled "Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society" summarizing and synthesizing much of their thinking over the past … [Read more...]

The May 26, 2016 issue of Nature has a very interesting report on a survey that they conducted on scientific reproducibility, as well as an editorial. Both of these are available online without a … [Read more...]