ECURE 2005: Clifford Lynch The Coalition for Networked Information (www.cni.org), jointly sponsored by theAssociation of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member http://www.asu.edu/ecure/2005/lynch/LynchClifford_bio.html
Extractions: Keynote Address Clifford A. Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information ( CNI ) since July 1997. Prior to joining CNI , Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation, where he managed the MELVYL information system and the intercampus internet for the University. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information Infrastructure. The Coalition for Networked Information ( www.cni.org
CNI - UK Regional Conference, February 9-10, 1996 (CAUL) The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Associationof Research Libraries, CAUSE, and Educom, promotes the creation and use of http://www.anu.edu.au/caul/cni96uk.htm
Extractions: From paul@cni.org Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:10:25 -0500 (EST) Reply to: cni-announce@cni.org Subject: Summary Report: UK Regional Conference, February 9-10, 1996 Dear cni-announce subscribers: I am pleased to attach the summary report from the very successful regional conference that CNI held last weekend in London, UK, with the help of CAUSE, one of our three sponsors, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the three UK Higher Education Funding Councils and the British Library, both members of the CNI Task Force,and the UK Office of Library Networking, one of our most valued international partners. Best, Paul Paul Evan Peters Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202-296-5098 Fax: 202-872-0884 Internet: paul@cni.org URL: ftp://ftp.cni.org/ URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/ URL: http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html In her welcome to over one hundred fifty attendees, Lynne Brindley, chair of the UK Library Programme of JISC, noted that "all of the boundaries are disappearing," as exemplified by the speakers from both sides of the Atlantic and the many sectors of academe represented on the program: faculty, librarians, information technologists, academic administrators, and others. She commented that JISC has pushed a program featuring information and its management as well as strategies for service delivery. She noted that through membership in CNI's Task Force and contact over the past few years, JISC had been influenced by CNI in the development of its program. Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, also welcomed the attendees and called for those present to ensure the building of an infrastructure that serves the needs of global science and scholarship.
Extractions: ARL / CAUSE / EDUCOM Coalition for Networked Information CALL FOR INPUT: COALITION NIDR INITIATIVE INTRODUCTION On October 1, 1994, the Coalition for Networked Information launched a new research initiative to explore architectures and standards for advancing networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) in highly distributed heterogeneous environments. Avra Michelson of The MITRE Corporation will be available full time during the next year to work on this project in conjunction with Clifford Lynch, University of California Office of the President and Craig Summerhill, Systems Coordinator at the Coalition. Cecilia Preston will serve as the project's research associate. The team will author a white paper on NIDR technologies and their relationship to existing and future networked data architectures, standards, and structures. BASIC APPROACH Among the reasons the Coalition envisions a need for this paper are: o to explore the suitability of existing networked information discovery and retrieval methods for handling large digital libraries, o to provide a cross-domain examination of the technical and information management issues involved in the development of robust information retrieval systems that are designed to handle large volumes of production digital data, o to develop a research (and hopefully development) agenda that can be used to advance NIDR work, and o to strengthen the theoretical foundations that currently inform standards and tools development. The white paper will focus on technical as opposed to policy issues. The scope will be limited to exploring problems associated with identifying, selecting, and retrieving resources and objects in a large distributed network. These problems include classic information retrieval issues, as well as new sets of issues related to performance management and retrieval in the distributed environment, the support of complex multimedia objects, large data archives, in addition to those posed by traditional text-based information resources. Metadata, loosely defined as "information about information" is one of the basic unifying concepts and tools that can be used for improving networked information retrieval. One of the goals for the white paper will be to establish a theoretical framework for considering the relationship between metadata structures and content, the organization of network objects, and NIDR within a distributed environment. The authors will consider these issues from the Internet perspective assuming that resources are available both for free and fee and can be both public and access-controlled. A CALL FOR INPUT The Coalition anticipates that an initial draft of the paper will be released for public comment in April 1995. Prior to that time the authors seek suggestions from the Coalition membership and the larger network community on sources, projects, and scholarship related to the scope of this research initiative. Comments and suggestions may be submitted to the entire project team via e-mail using a mail reflector designed especially for the public- input portion of the project. By using the e-mail address below, the project team will receive your input. These submissions for consideration will be reviewed by the entire project team, and the sender(s) will be contacted for additional information as needed. To communicate with the project team send your e-mail to: nidrcall@cni.org NOTE: this is not a discussion list, so we will not be accepting requests for subscription to this list. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Alternately, Avra Michelson, the initiative's full-time investigator, may be contacted via voice at 703-883-6379, or via e-mail at: avram@mitre.org ABOUT THE COALITION The Coalition for Networked Information was founded in March 1990 to help realize the promise of high performance networks and computers for the advancement of scholarship and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. The Coalition is a partnership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE, and EDUCOM. The Coalition pursues its mission with the assistance of a task force of over two-hundred institutions and organizations that provides focus and resources which are crucial to the ability of the Coalition to articulate and explore shared visions of how information management must change in the 1990s to meet the social and economic opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Members of the Coalition Task Force include higher education institutions, publishers, network service providers, computer hardware, software, and systems companies, library networks and organizations, and public and state libraries.
Extractions: The Coalition for Networked Information is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Title IIB program to assist with funding the second year of its New Learning Communities initiative. The Coalition will offer a program consisting of three components that encompass a total of five days of face-to- face interaction and several months or longer of online interaction. The centerpiece of the program is a three-day conference based on the successful New Learning Communities conference that the Coalition offered last year. Following on this year's three day program, two other events will be used to disseminate the lessons learned from the events of both years and to stimulate additional institutions to develop similar curricular projects. All three events will emphasize the role of networked information (content), not just networks (conduit), and the expertise of the librarian as a team member in developing new or revised curriculum. Participation in the three-day conference will be invitational. Institutional teams will be selected from respondents to the Call posted below. The second and third events in the program will be open registration conferences.
Site For Internet User Education Materials: Call For Participation The Coalition for Networked Information and the Association of College and ResearchLibraries Instruction Section (ACRLIS) are interested in identifying a http://www.sdsc.edu/SDSCwire/v1.7/9012.user_ed_mats.html
Extractions: The Coalition for Networked Information and the Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section (ACRL-IS) are interested in identifying a site to develop a virtual collection of Internet user education and training materials. An institution or set of institutions will be selected to: The institution(s) chosen to implement this project would select materials with the assistance of a subcommittee of ACRL-IS, which would develop a set of selection criteria. Instructional materials would include texts, course materials, syllabi, workbooks, self-instructional materials, and bibliographies. Upon selection as the implementation site, the institution will have one month to develop an implementation plan for review by ACRL and CNI, who will also provide consultation during this period.
George H. Brett -- Publications The Cybernetic Library, the Coalition for Networked Information Task Force SpringMeeting, Washington DC March 1992. WAIS and Networked Information http://ariel.adgrp.com/~ghb/vita/pubs.html
Extractions: Main Brief Biography Professional Experience Publications and Presentations ... Art Exhibitions User Experience with The High Performance Internet Infrastructure ," Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, Indianopolis, IN. User Experience with The High Performance Internet Infrastructure ," CNI 2003 Spring Meeting, Washington, DC. "Support and Development of Advanced Application Environments," Chinese-American Networking Symposium, Rockville, MD. March 13, 2001 "The DAST Clearinghouse: a resource for GridForum," Presentation at Gridforum 5, Marlboro, MA. October 18,2000. "The Klearinghouse:.a network based model for user support," The Workshop on Internet-Scale Software Technologies (TWIST 2000), Unv of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA. July 14, 2000. "High Performance Networks and Advanced Applications," JISC Academic Service Providers to Education and Research, London, UK. June 19, 2000. SURA Applications Update The Internet2 Fall Meeting, Sept 28, 1998. San Francisco, CA. Internet2 Applications: an overview The Bell Atlantice Executive Conference, Sept 23-24, 1998, Orlando FL Update on Applications Activities - focus on SURA The GigaPoP Operators Workshop II, June 24-27 1998, MCNC, Research Triangle Park, NC
User Education For The Internet Report And Recommendations In addition, the Coalition for Networked Information expressed specific interestin finding ways to explore use of the network itself to provide both http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/re
Extractions: bmacadam@umich.edu In January 1993 as part of ACRL President Elect Tom Kirk's presidential theme of networking and supported by a $4000 grant to ACRL from the Coalition for Networked Information, the Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee of BIS was asked to undertake the following project: To identify the most appropriate and effective means for librarians to design and disseminate instruction materials for teaching the academic and research community about information seeking information sharing, and information evaluation in the networked environment presented by the Internet. In June 1993 the Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee, on behalf of the Bibliographic Instruction Section, began work on this project to foster effective strategies for instructing users in the networked information environment. In the first phase of this project, the committee solicited and received considerable input from academic librarians through listservs and BIS meetings on current instructional activities and both current and future needs. Preliminary analysis of responses indicated three general areas of concern: Direct instructional support, connectivity and collaboration, and institutional support.
Librarians White paper for the Coalition for Networked Information. Access to and Servicesfor Federal Information in the Networked Environment. http://www.library.georgetown.edu/newsletter/apr98/librarians.htm
Extractions: Lauinger Library Donors Celebrated Recommending Purchases Online Survey Supports Coffee Bar Proposal Periodical Shift Nears Completion ... Research Assistant: Computerized Tutorial Teaches Research Skills Professional Contributions of Georgetown Librarians Gift Adds Important Editions on the Middle East Planning for the New Millennium Professional Contributions of Georgetown Librarians Librarians contribute to their profession in more ways than may be evident in the library. Here are some examples of how Georgetown University librarians contributed beyond their day-to-day responsibilities during the past year. Jennifer Boettcher, Business Reference Librarian Publications:
Call For Statements Of Interest And Experience DESCRIPTION The Coalition for Networked Information, Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University, the Council of Graduate Schools, and University http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/new/1992/92-ix-27-123/Call_for_Statements_o
IMS Global Learning Consortium: Press Releases IMS forms alliance with Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Collaborationto further interoperability in digital libraries and learning object http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/pr030313.cfm
Extractions: Burlington, Mass. - March 13, 2003 - IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) today announced a working alliance between IMS and CNI to explore the development of common architectural and functional models leading to joint specifications and improved technical interoperability in the rapidly evolving areas of digital libraries and learning object repositories. Professor Neil McLean, Director of IMS Australia and a member of the IMS Board of Directors, is leading the initiative on behalf of IMS. He said, "The reaching out to the library community and to all those involved in digital asset management within institutions marks an important milestone in the evolution of IMS. CNI, which brings together the information technology and library communities, is an ideal partner for this effort." Neil McLean went on to say, " The recently released IMS Digital Repository Interoperability Specification version 1.0 provides an excellent framework for the consultation exercise and it should provide a platform for further technical specifications." Dr. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI, observed, "This is a very timely collaboration as higher education institutions try to sort through both the technical and organizational challenges of a landscape that is being transformed by new developments such as learning management systems and institutional repositories. The portfolio of IMS standards, and the architectural work that they have advanced over the last few years will be an essential basis for addressing these challenges."
Extractions: Bibliotheek van de UvA wordt lid van CNI - Coalition for Networked Information Gepubliceerd op maandag 8 september 2003 CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) is een organisatie die de mogelijkheden van informatie via het netwerk en van informatietechnologie mee stimuleert en ontwikkelt op het gebied van wetenschappelijke communicatie, onderzoek en onderwijs. Ongeveer 200 universiteiten en bibliotheken, professionele en wetenschappelijke organisaties, uitgeverijen en informatietechnologie bedrijven maken deel uit van de Coalitie. CNI is in 1990 opgericht door de Association of Research Libraries (ARL) en EDUCAUSE. CNI realiseert haar doelen via onderzoek en projecten die rond drie thema's zijn georganiseerd: Ontwikkelen en beheren van informatie beschikbaar via het netwerk. Veranderingsprocessen van organisaties, beroepen en personen. Ontwikkelen van technologie, standaarden en infrastructuur.
Vicky Reich Coalition for Networked Information The Pricing Crisis, Setting a CNI Agenda. (Report on Coalition for Networked Information Conference, March 35, 1991, http://lockss.stanford.edu/vicky.htm
Extractions: Past Activities HighWire Press Vicky worked for HighWire Press, internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries, through August 2002 as Assistant Director and Digital Librarian where she helped publishers with institutional subscription models and licenses. eJUSt (electronic Journal User Study) Funded by the Mellon Foundation and in cooperation with HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries studied the impact of ejournals on scholars, publishers, and librarians. The study had three major components: interviews, online surveys and data mining and explored how online journals are used and perceived by readers. Brief Bio Vicky is Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program. Prior to the LOCKSS Program, she was, for eight years, the Assistant Director of HighWire Press. Vicky works to facilitate the industry's transition from print to online publishing models. She has over 20 years of extensive library experience in both public and technical services and has held positions at the: Upjohn Company; University of Michigan; Library of Congress; National Agricultural Library; and Stanford University. She earned her MLS from the University of Michigan. Talks 8th Digital Preservation Forum, London 6/23/04
Extractions: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:35:13 -0400 http://www.cni.org/pepfellowship/. For further information, contact: Shelley Sperry Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle Washington, DC 20036 shelley@cni.org 202-296-6567 ext. 135 Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 PHONE: (301) 495-0900 http://www.asis.org Previous message: [Chapter_mi-l] FW: [Asis-l] chi 2003 / Call for Participation Next message: [Chapter_mi-l] Results of the 2002 - 2003 MI-ASIST Elections Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
[Sigdl-l] Fwd: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Shibboleth Version 1 Released About Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) CNI is an organization dedicatedto supporting the transformative promise of networked information http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sigdl-l/2003-July/000096.html
Extractions: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:37:48 -0400 Delivered-To: dick@asis.org CNI-ANNOUNCE-off@cni.org https://cni.org:443/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/List.html Reply-To: "CNI-ANNOUNCE The Coalition Information Station" CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Sender: "CNI-ANNOUNCE The Coalition Information Station" CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org To: "CNI-ANNOUNCE The Coalition Information Station" < CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:36:54 -0700 cliff@cni.org Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Shibboleth Version 1 Released I wanted to share with CNI-announce readers the recent press release from Internet 2 on progress with the Shibboleth distributed authentication system. This is a very important infrastructure component which is now developing real implementation momentum. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI INTERNET2 RELEASES PRIVACY-PRESERVING WEB AUTHORIZATION SOFTWARE Open source Shibboleth software developed and tested by more than 20 leading companies and universities ANN ARBOR, MI Internet2 today announced the availability of Shibboleth
D-Lib (May 1997) -- Clips And Pointers Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment.This white paper, sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/05clips.html
Extractions: Patrice Lyons, Law Offices of Patrice Lyons, Chartered, Washington, D.C. RLG DigiNews is the first issue of a newsletter from RLG devoted to covering items of interest for "managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale." The first issue lists the winners of the Library of CongressAmeritech awards, an article on preservation scanning , and a brief technical review of scanners and digital cameras, with references to reviews and pointers to relevant web-sites. Retrospective Digitization of Library Materials. The report of the technical working group charged with analyzing the state-of-the art in digitization and formulating recommendations for establishing a distributed digital library in Germany under the sponsorship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has been issued. The report (written in German) is accessible via the home page of the Lower Saxony State and University Library at Goettingen (Niedersaechsische Staats und Universitaetsbibliothek). The following topics are discussed:
Carnegie Mellon Libraries Gloriana St. Clair, presented to the Coalition for Networked Information, SanAntonio, Texas, December 5, 2002. Million Book Project Dreams and Realities http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/FIDArchive.html
Extractions: Gloriana St. Clair gave the keynote address at the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter ACRL Meeting in Pittsburgh (April 15, 2005). She discussed the recent National Institutes of Heath (NIH) Public Access Policy as a major first step toward solving dysfunction in scholarly communications. Her talk begins with a videoclip of provost Mark Kamlet summarizing his involvement with open access initiatives through the Association of American Universities (AAU). Abstract : Recent evidence shows that Google is increasingly the primary information discovery tool for the general public and more specialized audiences such as students, researchers, and educators. In this "age of google" it is critical that digital libraries offer more than a simple "find it and access it" paradigm. The relevance of projects like the NSDL must be evaluated in this context. This talk will describe work within the NSDL on an information network overlay architecture, which is a framework for contextualizing, interrelating, and reusing information. We argue that such contextualization is critical for the utility of digital libraries for education and a variety of other purposes.
Higher Education Instructional Issues Sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and hosted by DartmouthCollege, Collaborative Facilities is a project designed to collect, http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Educational_Levels/Higher_Educ
Extractions: "A six-year research and action project to support departments' efforts to more purposefully structure their doctoral programs.. . .The initiative has three interacting elements: a conceptual analysis of doctoral education, design experiments in departments, and research and dissemination." Departments participating include chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neurosciences at a variety of institutions.
Open Archives Initiative Appoints Steering Committee In addition, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Digital LibraryFederation (DLF) have agreed jointly to supply some organized support and http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiscpress000825.html
Extractions: Open Archives Initiative Appoints Steering Committee Washington, D.C.—The Open Archives Initiative (OAi) has established a steering committee to guide its development and promote its adoption as an enabling framework for the development of innovative networked information services. In addition, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have agreed jointly to supply some organized support and resources for the ongoing OAi effort. Santa Fe convention ," along with preliminary ideas about acceptable use policies, registries, and other issues. A subsequent workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM Digital Libraries meeting in San Antonio in June 2000, reviewed experiences in implementing the Santa Fe convention and mapped out issues that needed to be addressed. Out of that meeting came a consensus that the Santa Fe convention will be revised and updated with the intent of producing a new version of the document by January 2001. The newly established steering committee will oversee these efforts and will assemble technical experts as required. In addition, there is considerable interest in extending the concepts developed at the Santa Fe convention beyond their initial context in order to support metadata harvesting for a wider range of digital resources of academic and scholarly interest. Besides e-prints and electronic texts, such resources include science and social science data sets, visual materials, archival collections, geographic information system data, sound and music, and video. This work is being pursued under the auspices of the DLF, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Unlike the project involving the e-print archives, this effort is still highly experimental and requires validation through implementation experience. The steering committee will also help to guide the integration of this effort into the further evolution of the Santa Fe convention.