New CNI Conversations: Digging into Data; Identifiers; BRDI Crowdsourcing Mtg

This latest report from CNI, recorded June 22, 2011, includes discussion of the recent Digging into Data conference, an overview of a meeting on persistent identifiers and identifier interoperability, recent developments at the DFG (the German Research Foundation), and a public symposium on crowdsourcing hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).

Listen to the June 22 CNI Conversations: http://wp.me/pGewu-4r

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

Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meeting

Interviews conducted during the Spring 2011 CNI Membership Meeting have been published by EDUCAUSE:

http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/229688

The podcasts include a conversation with plenary speaker Todd Presner, founder and director of HyperCities (a GIS research and education platform built on the Google Maps and Google Earth APIs), as well as an interview with UCSD University Librarian Brian Schottlaender on collaboration and the future of university libraries. EDUCAUSE producer Gerry Bayne spent time with a few other presenters and attendees at CNI’s spring meeting, including:

• Brian Owen (Simon Frasier Univ.), discussing the Public Knowledge Project
• Thomas Hickerson and Shawna Sadler on the Univ. of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library, a converged library, archive, art and publishing facility
• Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins Univ.) with a Data Conservancy Update
• Robert Seal (Loyola Univ.) reflects on three years of an information commons Library-ITS partnership

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 April 4-5, 2011 in San Diego, CA. Thanks to all who attended and presented!

Podcasts: Recommender Services, Blogs in Scholarship, More

AUDIO-ONLY files are now available for sessions that were video recorded at CNI’s fall 2010 meeting. Also, an interview conducted with Carl Grant, Chief Librarian at Ex Libris, is now available. In his conversation with EDUCAUSE’s Gerry Bayne, Carl discusses recommender services and how they compare to other search tools, social networking enhancements in libraries, privacy issues, the future of libraries, and more.

Interview with Carl Grant, Ex Libris
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/cni10-grant.mp3

Cliff Lynch’s opening address
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101213_MMF10_Opening_CLynch.mp3

Daniel Cohen’s talk, The Ivory Tower and the Open Web
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101214_MMF10_Closing_DCohen.mp3

Project briefing, Assessing Cyberinfrastructure Impact http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101214_PBF10_Cyberinfrastructure_SJackson.mp3

Project briefing, Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls… Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption? http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101213_PBF10_Linked_Open_Data_KCNegulescu.mp3

Project briefing, NSF Data Management Plan Requirements: Institutional Initiatives
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101213_PBF10_NSF_Guidelines_SGoldstein.mp3

Project briefing, Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/audio/CNI_101214_PBF10_Forensics_MKirschenbaum.mp3