CNI News

The Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 2-3 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD.  Registration materials will be sent by the end of this month to designated member representatives.  Please note that … [Read more...]

Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology:  CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by director Clifford Lynch, is now available on CNI's two video channels: on … [Read more...]

CNI is an official endorser of this conference. ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) June 10–14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA Hosted by The … [Read more...]

CNI Director Cliff Lynch discusses how the consumerization of information technology is affecting library and teaching organizations in this new video offering from EDUCAUSE, currently featured on CNI's home page, www.cni.org.  The video is also available … [Read more...]

In their contribution to the New Years festivities, I've just recieved an announcement from NSF that the National Science Board has now issued a report (dated December 14, 2011) from their Task Force on Data Policies titiled "Digital Research Data Sharing … [Read more...]

The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley is hosting a major symposium on March 12-13 to explore paths foward on the orphan works problem, particularly in light of the apparent failure of the Google Books … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago I shared information on two calls from the US Office of Science and Technology Policy one for  public comment on issues related to public access to articles produced as part of federally funded research, and the other dealing with a range … [Read more...]

Audio recordings and powerpoints from the sessions at the October 13-14, 2011 ARL-CNI Wahsington DC Symposium on 21st Century Collections are now available at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum11.shtml There's a wealth of … [Read more...]

The European Science Foundation's Standing Committee on the Humanities  has just issued a policy brief on Research Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities which offers an excellent survey of many large-scale European digital humanities efforts. Further … [Read more...]