CNI News

James King of NIH and Kathlin Ray of the University of Nevada, Reno, describe 3D printing programs at their institutions' libraries and explore what's different about 3D printing as a service in a library. This presentation is from CNI's December 2014 … [Read more...]

In this presentation from CNI's fall 2014 meeting, Andrew Sallans of the Center for Open Science discusses the Open Science Framework (OSF), a free, open source web application which is designed to improve scholarly workflow and connect it to other tools … [Read more...]

In this presentation from CNI's fall 2014 meeting, Günter Waibel and Vincent Rossi of the Smithsonian Institution describe and demonstrate methods being used to capture high-quality digital representations of some of the millions of objects housed within … [Read more...]

Posting on behalf of our colleagues at the Research Data Alliance. --Joan Lippincott, CNI Research Data Alliance/US Call for Fellows The Research Data Alliance (RDA) invites applications for its newly redesigned fellowship program. The program’s goal … [Read more...]

Registration Now Open! HTRC UnCamp, March 30-31, 2015 HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp March 30-31, 2015 Palmer Commons at the University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218 2015 UnCamp This year’s HathiTrust Research … [Read more...]

The submission deadline for CNI's spring 2015 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on April 13-14 in Seattle, Washington. Proposals for project briefings are due no later than Friday, February 27. A limited number of … [Read more...]

John Vallier of the University of Washington discusses the implications of streaming media for library media collections in his talk Online-Only Media: 21st Century Collection Crisis? presented at CNI's December 2014 member meeting, and now available … [Read more...]

At the ELI annual conference today, the NMC Horizon Report for higher education was officially released. This is a report that often generates lots of discussion on campus and in other venues. Full disclosure - I was a member of the Expert Panel for the … [Read more...]

Posting on behalf of our ARL colleagues: An Introduction to XML and XML Applications March 11–13, 2015, in Washington, DC (see http://www.arl.org/events/upcoming-events/event/132#.VJL47kAFMAA for more information and registration) Taught by … [Read more...]

David Rosenthal of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) considers the big picture of digital preservation costs, and their implications, in his talk Improving the Odds of Preservation, presented at CNI's December 2014 member meeting, and now available … [Read more...]