Podcasts and open content alliance

In this 14 minute recording, we'll get an update from OCLC's Jim Michalko.  Listen in as he shares thoughts about a range of developments including the combination of RLG and OCLC..


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 20 minute recording, I sit down with Merrilee Proffitt, a program officer in RLG’s Member Programs division.  We'll talk about digital preservation and web archival in particular.  Among other things, we'll also talk about the ArchiveGrid and potential uses of social software. 

Merrilee and a number of others maintain a blog over at hangingtogether.org


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 29 minute recording, we'll hear from José-Marie Griffiths, Dean and Professor of the UNC School of Information and Library Sciences.  She's also the principal investigator of The Future of Librarians in the Workforce study and we'll hear about her activities on that front.   We'll also learn about her session at CNI's Fall Task Force meeting about a recent report from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.

See also:

• The Louis Round Wilson Academy
  - a very interesting group represented there
• ibiblio

In this 20 minute recording, I sit down with RLG's James Michalko for to gather some thoughts on their participation in the Open Content Alliance, their RedLightGreen.com service, blogging at hangingtogether.org and we talk briefly about issues involving intellectual property and patents.

For more information about RLG, visit http://www.rlg.org


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org