CNI News

In this presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting, Alan Wolf and Jan Cheetham of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, describe Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), an enterprise tool specifically designed to manage data coming from research labs. The … [Read more...]

Interviews with selected attendees and speakers from CNI's spring 2015 membership meeting, produced by EDUCAUSE, are now available at https://soundcloud.com/cni_org/sets/cni15s The collection includes the following conversations: * Digital Scholarship … [Read more...]

Libraries have served their universities in part through their robust access to and preservation of the scholarly record. Two libraries are now considering how to expand this responsibility to include executable content, such as software, models, and … [Read more...]

BIBFLOW aims to document the internal effects of the conversion of library records to Linked Data, focusing particularly on the BIBFRAME framework. While many projects have, or are currently, focused on how Linked Data will transform the library catalogue … [Read more...]

CNI's Joan Lippincott will speak at the inaugural ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group meeting, which will take place at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. --- Please join us for the inaugural ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers … [Read more...]

Many universities have ETD programs but we still lack good data, as my colleague Gail McMillan from Virginia Tech, describes below. I encourage you to participate in this survey. --Joan Lippincott, CNI ------------------------------ 2015 ETD Survey: A … [Read more...]

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) is addressing the longstanding research challenge of discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records that researchers use as primary evidence for understanding the lives and work of historical … [Read more...]

This presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting describes the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform (LAADP), an online educational resource which includes thousands of digitized primary sources from seven institutions, and a scholarship … [Read more...]

This presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting covers efforts at the libraries at Georgia State University (Bryan Sinclair & Joseph Hurley) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill (Jill Sexton) to implement immersive display … [Read more...]

The exciting opportunities presented by video walls in public spaces also represent a range of challenges encompassing questions about engagement, staffing, planning and budgets. In this presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting, Shawna Sadler (Deakin … [Read more...]