CNI News

There's a very interesting draft report (open for comment till 1 November) from a workshop that the National Institutes of Health sponsored in May 2014 on issues involved in locating, citing and reusing software in the biomedical community; obviously this … [Read more...]

The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2014 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held December 8-9 in Washington, DC. Proposals for project briefings are due no later than next Monday, October 13. A limited number of proposals are … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this announcement with the broad CNI-announce community, even though it has already been posted to some more specialized digital preservation lists. The release of the free, open source digital forensics software described below, a joint … [Read more...]

Following up on a session from one of our recent CNI membership meetings, I wanted to share this announcement of the release of the new version 2.0 of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). This is a very helpful integrating framework … [Read more...]

On September 22-23, 2014 the Library of Congress hosted its annual invitational meeting on Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections in Washington DC; I was once again fortunate to be able to attend. This is a consistently excellent meeting … [Read more...]

For those interested in assessment of learning spaces, you will want to download version 1 of the newly released Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) available on the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) website at … [Read more...]

Washington DC — The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of doctoral student Jordan Eschler and master’s student Olivia Dorsey as the 2014 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in library … [Read more...]

As part of our continuing interest in the evolution of the scholarly monograph, CNI is very pleased to be a partner with the Association of Research Libraries in the ARL 2014 Fall Forum, "Wanted Dead or Alive -- the Scholarly Monograph". This one-day … [Read more...]

CNI's Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott will present a Community Update on Wednesday, Oct. 1st, to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. The session will begin at 4:30 PM in meeting room … [Read more...]

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a special issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) on building open access infrastructure. Guest edited by Liam Earney, head of Jisc's Library Support Services, the issue features … [Read more...]