EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Scholarly Communication

CNI Podcast: nanoHUB.org: Future Cyberinfrastructure - An Interview with George B. Adams III

gbayne — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:26 -0500

This podcast features an interview with George B. Adams III, Associate Director for Programs, Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University. Our interview was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

nanoHUB provides users with “fingertip access” to over 70 simulation tools for research and education. Users not only launch jobs that are executed on the state-of-the-art computational facilities of Open Science Grid and TeraGrid, but also interactively visualize and analyze the results--all via an ordinary Web browser. nanoHUB middleware hides the complexity of Grid computing, handling authentication, authorization, file transfer, and visualization, and letting the researcher focus on research. This approach also helps educators bring these tools to the classroom, letting them bypass the difficulties of Grid computing and focus instead on learning science and engineering.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 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

CNI Podcast: Library Publishing Services: An Emerging Role for Research Libraries - An Interview with Karla Hahn

gbayne — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:05:14 -0500

This 16 minute podcast features an interview with Karla Hahn, Director of Scholarly Communication for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Surveys and interviews of members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have revealed that a majority are now developing publishing services. Publishing centered in research institutions has a long history. Departments, institutes and other campus publishing have complemented university press publishing, collectively producing a wide range of high-quality works. Research libraries are positioned to transform university publishing as they create organized publishing services.

Libraries launch publishing services in response to needs for new kinds of support for scholarly publications. Services focus on the local constituency, although much of the content they are publishing comes from outside the institution. Journal publishing is the most common genre supported, although a majority of programs also support monographic publishing.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 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

CNI Podcast: Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Vectors and Multimodal Publishing - An Interview with Tara McPherson

gbayne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:08:22 -0500

This 31 minute podcast, recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting, features an interview with Tara McPherson, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, and Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.

Tara McPherson teaches courses in new media, television, and popular culture in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC). Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture and was a finalist for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008). She is currently co-editing an anthology on digital narrative and politics and working on a book manuscript on the racial epistemologies of new media. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, race, and representation, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship.

She is the founding editor of Vectors, the multimedia peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. Vectors pushes far beyond the "text with pictures" format of much online scholarly publishing, encouraging work that takes full advantage of the multimodal and networked capacities of computing technologies. She was recently selected as one of three editors for the new MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009), a hybrid online/print journal that will also explore new forms of online publishing.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Clifford Lynch

gbayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:29 -0500

On this podcast we feature an interview with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He spoke to us from the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

ELI Podcast: Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step

gbayne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:17:16 -0600

This podcast features a keynote speech from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. It's by Bob Young, CEO at Lulu Enterprises, and is entitled, "Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step".

Today's competitive education industry requires that we deliver more relevant information to our students faster than ever before. Taking six months to prepare a document and another six months to print and distribute it simply no longer meets the needs of 21st-century students or the society we are preparing them for.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)

gbayne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:47:41 -0600

In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting.

As Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, Kate Wittenberg directs the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, the Gutenberg-e online history project, Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, and the Core Integration for the National Science Digital Library. Kate's work focuses in particular on the creation of new models for scholarly communication, sustainable business plans for digital scholarly publishing, collaborative organizational models, and the evaluation of use and costs of scholarly and educational digital resources. EPIC develops relationships among scholars, technologists, publishers, librarians, and national and international partners that move beyond the organizational and disciplinary categories within the traditional university infrastructure. Kate writes and speaks frequently on the topics of scholarly communication in the online environment and digital publishing.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 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 Eileen Fenton

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:50:14 -0600

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Portico's Executive Director, Eileen Fenton. Listen in as she shares some background on Portico their digital preservation work.

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

An Interview with Paul Gandel

mpasiewicz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:37 -0500

The attached 14 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Syracuse CIO, Paul Gandel. Listen in as Gene Spencer hosts a discussion about strategies for talking with the press, data visualization, scholarly communication and much more.

An Interview with Dennis Trinkle

mpasiewicz — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:54:57 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Valparaiso's CIO, Dennis Trinkle. Listen in as he shares a few thoughts on his 361º Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology, scholarly communication in a digital age, learning space design and cyberliability insurance.

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Dennis was also recently quoted in a recent Chronicle article about cyberliability.

An interview with Penn State's Nancy Eaton

mpasiewicz — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:25:00 -0500

In this 14 minute recording, we'll hear from Nancy Eaton, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. We'll talk about her unique role at Penn State, DPubS, Google books, and more.

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 EPIC's Kate Wittenberg

mpasiewicz — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:11:00 -0500

In this 25 minute recording, I sit down with Kate Wittenberg, Director of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia. We'll hear about interesting activities at EPIC, interest in technology by authors, peer review, tenure and promotion, social software, games, and the impact of search engines on small publishers. She also shares some thoughts on ways that people read and how that might translate into an electronic environment.
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 Mellon Foundation's Don Waters

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:41:00 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, I'll sit down with Don Waters, Program Officer for Scholarly Communication at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Among other things, we'll talk about broadly about their activities relating to digital library initiatives, Mellon's call for Urgent Action to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals, and the undercurrents of open access.

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

E2005 Podcast: Developing Legal and Policy Frameworks to Sustain Digital Scholarship

podcaster — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:45:52 -0600

This 54 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Developing Legal and Policy Frameworks to Sustain Digital Scholarship.

E2005 Podcast: The Data Deluge Hits Campus

podcaster — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:26:11 -0600

This 53 minute presentation by Cliff Lynch provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled The Data Deluge Hits Campus.