CNI Conversations Podcast

CNI Conversations Moving – Update Your Podcatchers & Links!

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:43:27 +0000

CNI has launched a newly-designed Web site which incorporates the CNI Conversations podcast program. No new podcasts will be posted to this site.

Please update podcatchers and links accordingly:

CNI Conversations:
Listen online at http://www.cni.org/resources/cni-conversations/
Point your podcatcher to http://www.cni.org/resources/cni-conversations/feed/

Thanks,
CNI

June 22, 2011: Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:29:08 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 28:06 min.]
June 22, 2011
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 the symposium “Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking” hosted by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data & Information (BRDI).

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.

Tagged: DFG, digital curation, digital humanities, identity management, social media

June 1, 2011: Crowdsourcing & Data; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:36:19 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 13:27 min.]
June 1, 2011
CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium on crowdsourcing and scientific data quality presented by the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information on June 13, 2011 in Washington, DC. Cliff also discusses “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation,” a meeting which took place at The National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia, on May 23-25, 2011.

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.

Tagged: data management, digital preservation, learning spaces, social media

May 20, 2011: Open Access to Yale’s Image Collection, ORCID, and More

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:23:51 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 17:50 min.]
May 20, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses Yale University’s recent announcement to make its digital image collection freely available, the ORCID initiative to develop an open researcher ID, selected videos and presentations from CNI’s spring meeting, and a recent National Research Council meeting on data reuse. Cliff also shared some details about the Sage Bionetworks Commons 2011 Congress.

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.

Tagged: CNI2011spring, data management, identity management, image collections, Sage Commons

March 18, 2011: Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, and Self-Destructing Ebooks

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:20:27 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 30:15 min.]
March 15, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a report on peer review from Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive, and Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence. Cliff also comments on auto-destructing ebooks and the Digital Public Library of America.

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.

Tagged: data management, digital preservation, e-books, personal archives

March 3, 2011: Preview of CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:01:22 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 18:26 min.]
March 3, 2011

In the March 3, 2011 podcast, Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott, CNI director and associate director, provide a preview of the CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting (http://www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring), including brief discussions of general meeting themes, and descriptions of selected project briefings. Cliff also talks about the session he will present on the e-book, which will include a look back at his 2001 article “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6), an analysis of how the issues have played out in the decade since the piece first appeared, and a consideration of where they are headed.

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.

Tagged: CNI2011spring

Feb. 17, 2011

CNI RSS Manager — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:28:09 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 26:52 min.]
February 17, 2011

In the February 17, 2011 podcast, CNI director Clifford Lynch talks about the Paul Evan Peters Award, to be presented to UCLA professor Christine Borgman at CNI’s spring meeting on April 4 in San Diego, CA; Borgman will present the Peters Lecture at that time. Cliff also makes note of a recent announcement made by the California Digital Library and partners regarding data management plans.

Both Cliff and Joan Lippincott, CNI associate director, discuss the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) meeting in Washington, DC and the 2011 Horizon Report.

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.

Tagged: awards, CNI2011spring, data management, ELI

February 10, 2011

CNI RSS Manager — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:12:50 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 21:12 min.] February 10, 2011

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast.

In the February 10, 2011 podcast, Cliff talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) call for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020. Cliff also discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving conference, as well as issues surrounding e-books.

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.

Tagged: e-books, NSF, personal archives, SBE

December 2010

CNI RSS Manager — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:18 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 35:03 min.] December 16, 2010

The Dec. 2010 session of CNI Conversations featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff also discussed the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the 2010-2011 CNI Program Plan, and The Next Twenty Years, a CNI project at the 20-year mark.

Tagged: CNI2010fall, IDCC, next 20 years project

November 2010

CNI RSS Manager — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:30:14 +0000

Audio Recording [mp3 54:46 min.] November 18, 2010

During the November 2010 session of CNI Conversations, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, and LC’s recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism. Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions include a recent New York Times piece on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

Tagged: citizen journalism, CNI2010fall, digital preservation, Internet2, learning spaces, NDIIPP, personal archives, PKAL