CNI News

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of higher education; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the … [Read more...]

Neil Beagrie has just announced the availability of a new report of the Economic Impact Evaluation of the UK Economic and Social Science Data Service (ESDS).  This is an important contribution to a literature that is still far too sparse, and I believe it … [Read more...]

This is a very welcome development in the gradual convergence of biography, factual biography and bioliography CNI has been seeking to encourage. I have not seen much about this work; basically, linkages will be built between the biographical entries in … [Read more...]

The Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the future of big data; as with a number of other reports in their "Future of the Internet" series done in collaboration with the Elon University "Imagining the Internet" … [Read more...]

The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) will be holding its next meeting in Washington DC on August 29-30. Much of the meeting is open to the public and includes a wide range of updates on developments in data management and … [Read more...]

The EDUCAUSE Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI)'s Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group has just issued a new white paper that takes a broad synthesizing look at the series of reports issued by a series of task forces to the NSF Advisory … [Read more...]

The DFG (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has just released a new strategy paper on approaches to developing and funding information infrastructues for research over the next five years; this should be of interest to a … [Read more...]

Both the content of this academy at Cornell and the excellent line-up of speakers will be of interest to many of you. Joan Lippincott ================== CONTACT: Cornell University Professional Studies Phone: (607) 255-7259 E-mail: … [Read more...]

National Academies Symposium on Data Sciences and Workforc The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information has a study underway on workforce and educational issues raised by the new demands for digital curation. As part of this work, the … [Read more...]

The UK Joint Information Systems Committee and the British Library have just released a major (17,00 student) study of the behaviors and beliefs of "Generation Y" (eg born 1983-1992) doctoral students involving social media, information access, and related … [Read more...]