EDUCAUSE | Podcasts, Digital Preservation, and Social Software

An interview with RLG's Merrilee Proffitt

mpasiewicz — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:15:00 -0500

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

An Interview with the University of Minnesota's Eric Celeste

mpasiewicz — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:00:00 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, we'll touch base with the University of Minnesota's Eric Celeste to learn about his work archiving Internet2 with Heritrix. We'll also learn about the UThink blog serivce and engage in a healthy discussion about social software.

At last fall's CNI meeting, I also spoke with the University of Minnesota's Joseph Konstan.

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 Carnegie Mellon's Denise Troll Covey

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:50:00 -0500

In this 28 minute recording, I sit down with Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University. Tune-in as she shares some thoughts about her work covering the Orphan Works debate, insights on fair use and DRM, and close with some thoughts on social software.

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 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 GMU's Roy Rosenzweig

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:38:00 -0500

In this 18 minute recording, I sit down with George Mason University's Roy Rosenwieg, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He'll be sharing some information about his work his work at the Center, offer some thoughts on the relevance of mulitple choice in an era of Google and h-bot, and provide some insight into the potential for a participatory, democratic digtial history.

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