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An Interview with Cornell's Paul Ginsparg

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:26:00 -0500

In this sixty eight minute recording, I sit down with Paul Ginsparg, physicist, scholarly communications pioneer, and the latest recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. We'll chat about the history of arXiv, social computing, peer review, and a number of other topics related to scholarly communication.

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.or

An Interview with the University of California's Terry Ryan and Luc Declerck

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:59:00 -0500

In this 25 minute recording, I sit down with Terry Ryan, Associate University Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles and Luc Declerck, Associate University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. We'll be talking about the the final report of the University of California's Bibliographic Services Task Force (PDF), social software, and NCSU's use of Endeca's Information Access Solutions.

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

An Interview with Tara McPherson about the Vectors journal

mpasiewicz — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:30:00 -0600

In this 22 minute recording, I sit down with the Tara McPherson, Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California and editor of Vectors. We'll talk about her involement in HASTAC, what she's learned from Vectors and emerging forms of scholarship more generally.

You can review the abstract for her session at CNI at the link below:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/abstracts/PB-reimagining-mcpherson.html

Other podcasts of interest might include Open Talk About Dinosaurs and John Seely Brown's presentation at the University of Colorado System's Teaching with Technology Conference.

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

An Interview with the University of Minnesota's Joseph Konstan about GroupLens

mpasiewicz — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:25:00 -0600

In this 20 minute recording, I sit down with Joseph Konstan, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota and get his thoughts on the GroupLens project, open source software, ethical considerations in recommender systems, and the prospects of deploying recommender systems in a library setting. IEarlier in the year, I wanted to sit in on his session at Microsoft's Social Computing Symposium, but I didn't get the chance, so I really enjoyed the opportunity to watch his presentation at CNI.

Related materials might include his recent article in ACM's Ubiquity and Lorcan Dempsey's recent blog entry entitled Circulating intentional data.

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