CNI News

On June 4, 2016 Columbia University convened a conference on Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models. Presentations and videos from the meeting are now available, and they are linked to the conference agenda … [Read more...]

I want to share a pointer to a paper published in PLoS ONE July  24, 2015 titled "Sizing the Problem of Improving Discovery and Access to NIH-Funded Data: A Preliminary Study" by Kevin Read et … [Read more...]

Last week, the Obama administration issued an executive order creating a National Strategic Computing Initiative to "maximize the benefits of high-performance computing research, development and deployment". The executive order, which is not lengthy, is … [Read more...]

In the UK, the Jisc has been doing some great work on learning analytics that doesn't seem to have gotten wide visibility beyond the UK yet; I wanted to particularly share their "Code of Practice for Learning Analytics" which addresses privacy and other … [Read more...]

The New Media Consortium (NMC) was recently awarded a planning grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. For this Collaborative Planning Grant, the NMC is to assess the need for … [Read more...]

Personal Digital Archiving 2015 was held in New York City April 24-25, 2015. The presentations from this meeting are now available at the conference web site, where they are linked to the individual day agendas, … [Read more...]

For the last few years, I have been tracking the growth of an exciting series multi-disciplinary research programs at some of our member organizations (and a number of other institutions) dealing with what I'll call for want of a better term "Urban … [Read more...]

On April 24, 2015 Harvard hosted a very interesting conference titled "University as Collector" at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (which, sadly, I was unable to attend personally). Video recordings for all of the sessions at this meeting are … [Read more...]

I'm posting this on behalf of Bucknell University, which will be hosting a digital scholarship conference. I know many of you are both interested in this topic and doing innovative work. This call for proposals encourages presentations highlighting … [Read more...]