CNI News

A new article by Clifford Lynch appears in the latest American Libraries digital supplement, Digital Content: What's Next? In “Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains,”CNI executive director Clifford Lynch provides an overall … [Read more...]

The James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University Library in Raleigh, NC will be the site of the October 6-8, 2013 Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference. The libraries of NC State University and University of Calgary, which … [Read more...]

RDF: Resource Description Failures & Linked Data Letdowns, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, is now available on CNI's video channels: Vimeo:   YouTube: … [Read more...]

Hypothes.is: Annotating the World’s Knowledge, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Peter Brantley, is now available on CNI's video channels: YouTube: Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/66245049 Hypothes.is, a not-for-profit start-up, … [Read more...]

Not Your Grandfather's Web Any More, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by David S.H. Rosenthal of LOCKSS and Kris Carpenter Negulescu of the Internet Archive, is now available on CNI's video channels: YouTube: Vimeo: … [Read more...]

IT@Cornell: Is It What We Imagined?, a project briefing from CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Cornell University's director of library IT, Dean Krafft, is now available on CNI's video channels: YouTube: Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/65313583 In … [Read more...]

The UC Berkeley School of Information is putting on a very interesting conference on emerging issues in data science on May 30-31. The array of speakers is really extraordinary. See http://dataedge.ischool.berkeley.edu/2013/ Note that there are … [Read more...]

Not Another Cross-Search Tool: The Digital Commons Network, a presentation by Jean-Gabriel Bankier of bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press), is now available on CNI's video channels: YouTube: http://youtu.be/NfdSiKQmeRQ Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/64515940 The … [Read more...]

The National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) has just issued a report titled "Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy". I've not yet read the full report, but based on the summary one area that it … [Read more...]

Publication and Research Roles for Libraries Using Spectral Imaging Data, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2013 member meeting by Todd Grappone and Stephen Davison of UCLA, is now available on CNI's video channels: YouTube: Vimeo: … [Read more...]