Podcast Interviews from Fall CNI Meeting

Interviews conducted by EDUCAUSE during the Fall 2009 CNI Membership Meeting are now online:
www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/PodcastsFromtheCNI2009FallTask/197751

The podcasts include a conversation with plenary speaker Bernard Frischer, a leading digital humanist who discusses 3D modeling in the humanities, and Brett Bobley, CIO for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on using supercomputers in humanities research.  These recordings are designed to function as an extension of the meeting, complementing the standard program, and providing an opportunity for the broader CNI community to hear from some of our key presenters and attendees.

The meeting was held December 14-15, 2009 in Washington, DC.  Thanks to all who attended and presented!

New Videos from CNI

Two new videos from CNI’s December membership meeting in are now available for streaming or download:

Memento:  Time Travel for the Web, a project briefing presented by Herbert Van de Sompel & Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Michael Nelson from Old Dominion University, is at http://vimeo.com/8365394

Also by Robert Sanderson and Herbert Van de Sompel, the project briefing Interoperable Annotation:  Perspectives from the Open Annotation Collaboration can be accessed at http://vimeo.com/8481040

All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni.  Subscribe to the CNI video channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available:  http://vimeo.com/channels/cni/videos/rss.

For those hoping for more compact recordings of content from CNI’s meetings, AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for the four sessions recorded at CNI’s fall 2009 meeting:

Cliff Lynch’s opening address:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/audio/CNI_091214_MMF09_Opening_Clynch.mp3

Bernard Frischer’s talk, Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/audio/CNI_091215_MMF09_Closing_BFrischer.mp3

Project briefing, Memento:  Time Travel for the Web
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/audio/CNI_091215_PBF09_Memento_VandeSompel.mp3

Project briefing, Interoperable Annotation:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/audio/CNI_091214_PBF09_Annotation_Sanderson.mp3

We are in the process of setting up a feed for audio recordings from CNI’s membership meetings – look for an announcement soon.

CNI Fall Closing Plenary Video Available

A video recording of the CNI 2009 Fall Membership Meeting closing plenary session is now available for streaming or downloading.  Bernard Frischer’s presentation Beyond Illustration:  New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments can be accessed from http://vimeo.com/8345677.

More video from the fall 2009 meeting will be announced shortly.  All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni.  Subscribe to the CNI video channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available:  http://vimeo.com/channels/cni/videos/rss.

CNI Fall Opening Plenary Video

Video of Clifford Lynch’s opening plenary address from the CNI Fall 2009 Membership Meeting is now available for streaming or downloading: http://vimeo.com/8347035

In this talk, CNI’s Executive Director provides updates on major developments in areas of interest to the CNI  community, and he gives an overview of the newly released 2009-10 CNI Program Plan, http://www.cni.org/program/.

Look for more announcements soon on the availability of other sessions from the fall 2009 CNI meeting, including Bernard Frischer’s closing plenary talk, Beyond Illustration:  New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments.

To see all videos available from CNI, visit http://vimeo.com/cni.

Dec. CNI Conversations Available

An audio archive of the December CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

The discussion featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott.  Cliff also discussed the 5th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the NSF-funded workshop “Scholarly Evaluation Metrics:  Opportunities and Challenges.”

About CNI Conversations:
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format.

Real-time participation in upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration.  Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations.  Dates for future events will be sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions in January; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives.  We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan [at] cni [dot] org.

Download CNI Meeting Schedule of Events

The CNI Fall 2009 Membership Meeting Schedule of Events is now available for download from the meeting Web site:  http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall.  The document includes descriptions for plenary and breakout sessions, as well as times and room assignments.

NOTE:  Handouts are not included.

Roadmap to the Fall ’09 CNI Meeting

A guide to the Fall 2009 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch is now available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/roadmap.html.

CNI Meeting Update: Schedule, Abstracts & Hashtag

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Fall 2009 CNI Task Force Meeting is now available:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/schedule.html

We will be adding session abstracts and supplemental information throughout the week.

I will be posting meeting updates from my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/dgoldenberghart) using the hashtag #cni09f and we encourage other twitterers to do the same.

Please tag blog posts about this meeting with cni2009fall for easy reference.

The meeting will be held in Washington, DC, December 14-15.

CNI Meeting Project Briefings

A preliminary list of project briefings to be delivered at the Fall 2009 CNI Member Meeting is now available online: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/project.html

Please note that this is a preliminary list and that details are subject to change.  Session abstracts will be added soon, and a full conference schedule will be posted upon finalization.  The meeting will be held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel on December 14-15.

Nov. CNI Conversations Available

An audio archive of the November CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).  The discussion featured a preview of the upcoming fall CNI member meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch.  Cliff also reported on the recent ARL/CNI special collections forum, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and a new book on the Fourth Paradigm (a collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray, edited by Tony Hey, et al, and published by Microsoft Research).  Participant questions included the revised Google Books settlement, Lawrence Lessig’s EDUCAUSE keynote on copyright, and an update on the Open Annotation Collaboration.

About CNI Conversations
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI launched a new program in September 2009, CNI Conversations, in which participants from member institutions and organizations take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format.

Real-time participation in upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration.  Registration is open only to those at member institutions and organizations.  Dates for upcoming events were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representatives.  We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.