CNI News

Our colleagues at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) seek your input in identifying leading challenges and opportunities. --Joan Lippncott ************************* Greetings! The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) would like to remind folks … [Read more...]

The registration deadline for the Spring 2013 CNI member meeting is next TUESDAY, March 5th. If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Tuesday. Information about registration & accommodations is available … [Read more...]

We have a wonderful pair of plenary speakers for our upcoming Member meeting in San Antonio on April 4-5, 2013. Herbert van de Sompel will open the conference with a talk titled "From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record". This should be quite … [Read more...]

I wanted to share (somewhat belatedly; my apologies for the delay) this announcement from Herbert van de Sompel about the availability of a draft specification for public comment from the joint Open Archives Initiative/NISO ResourceSynch effort. This is an … [Read more...]

I wanted to pass along this announcement from Deb Ludwig at the University of Kansas Libraries. DDI is a well-established data standard that seems to be gaining broader interest. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI *********************** Registration is … [Read more...]

Our friends at the Knowledge Exchange are organizing a very timely workshop on research data sharing and research assessment that's scheduled for April 11-12, 2013 in Berlin. I've reproduced the call for participation below. Clifford Lynch Director, … [Read more...]

The US National Institutes of Health has issued a request for information (RIF) on training needs in response to it's Big Data to Knowledge Initiative that I think will interest many readers of CNI-announce. The RFI can be found … [Read more...]

Force11: The Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Maryann Martone of the University of California, San Diego, is now available on CNI's two video … [Read more...]

All of the materials from the International Data Curaton Conference held in Amsterdam in January 2013 are now online; there were some excellent presentations that will likely be of interest to CNI-announce readers who could not attend the meeting. … [Read more...]

The US National Research Council Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) will be holding a public symposium on the afternoon of Feb 26, 2013 on Strategies for Discovering Research Data in conjunction with the February 26-27 meeting of the … [Read more...]