20120429_CNI_Conversations
[22 min.]
April 29, 2012
This update from CNI Director Clifford Lynch includes discussion of the following topics and events:
- The Obama Administration’s announcement regarding a new “big data” initiative
(https://www.cni.org/news/administration-big-data-research-and/) - An e-journals summit hosted by the National Academies
- Developments in scholarly identity management, author ID’s, and related matters
- A new report from JISC on text mining
(press release, containing link to the report: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/03/textmining.aspx) - OCLC’s study on social metadata
(http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-01r.htm) - The recent Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress on bioinformatics (http://sagecongress.org/)
We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.