CNI News

Bill Bowen, the former President of Princeton University and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, recently gave the Tanner Lectures at Stanford University, addressing the impacts of technology on the costs of higher education. I think these will be of interest to … [Read more...]

Networks and the Paradox of the Active Learner, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Gardner Campbell (of Virginia Tech) is now available on CNI's two video channels: YouTube: and Vimeo: … [Read more...]

Networks and the Paradox of the Active Learner, a project briefing session presented at CNI's spring 2012 membership meeting, by Gardner Campbell (of Virginia Tech) is now available on CNI's two video channels: YouTube: and Vimeo: … [Read more...]

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting are due NEXT MONDAY, Oct. 22.  Proposals may be submitted via the online form: https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2012/ or by e-mail … [Read more...]

CNI is pleased to serve, once again, as a cooperating organization for IS&T's Archiving conference. ------------- The Archiving 2013 conference committee encourages you to submit an abstract for their consideration to be presented at the April … [Read more...]

Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award DEADLINE:  OCTOBER 26, 2012 The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting international achievements related to information technology and the creation and use of information resources … [Read more...]

David Rosenthal has made preprints of two important new papers available. One is called "Economics of Long Term Digital Storage" and is available at http://www.lockss.org/locksswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/unesco2012.pdf This paper extends his … [Read more...]

"Discovery Informatics" is a broad term that is now seeing some use as a way of describing a series of issues that have been of ongoing interest to CNI: text mining for knowledge discovery; text markup, multimedia tagging, and metadata structures to … [Read more...]

Duke University  and Dartmouth College have been doing some fabulous work supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over the past few years, looking deeply at institutional digital information management strategies. One of the most fascinating and … [Read more...]

I was fortunate to be able to participate in an excellent symposium that Harvard University  hosted on May 16, 2012 exploring issues in contribution and attribution in scholarly communications. This connects in complex ways with work that is underway in … [Read more...]