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CNI Podcast: An Interview with Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Director of Development at the State and University Library, Denmark

gbayne — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:26:54 -0600

In this 15 minute podcast we feature an interview with Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Director of Development at the State and University Library in Aarhus, Denmark. She spoke at the CNI Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, where she was co-presenting two sessions- "Explorative Search and the Library Catalog" and "International Digitial Preservation".

Summa, the search system of the State and University Library in Aarhus, Denmark, addresses many of the issues raised in a number of recently published studies, including the observation that the traditional library catalog cannot compete with other services when it comes to explorative search, as well as the realization that the catalog is only suitable as a localization tool for known items. The challenge is to develop an application which will satisfy the users’ expectations for a modern search system.

Summa is an open source system implementing modular, service-based architecture. It is based on the fundamental idea "free the content from the proprietary library systems," where the discovery layer is separated from the business layer. In doing so, any Internet technology can be used without the limitations traditionally set by proprietary library systems, and there is the flexibility to integrate or to be integrated into other systems. A first version of a Fedora - Summa integration has been developed.

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

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Kim Milford, Special Assistant to the CIO at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

gbayne — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:00:50 -0600

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kim Milford, Special Assistant to the CIO at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis . She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, where she .co-presented a session entitled, "IU ChaCha Search: Research Development, and Services".

Kim Milford recently joined Indiana University as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technology. In this role, Ms. Milford is leading initiatives that cross IT and university domains, such as the development of strategic alliances, enhancing online search and identity management. Prior to joining Indiana University, Ms. Milford served as the Director and Information Security Officer at the University of Rochester, where she successfully incorporated security planning and operations into strategic IT initiatives. Additionally, she developed and led an information security program that included disaster recovery planning, identity management, incident response and user awareness.

Podcasts from CNI Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting

gbayne — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:45:59 -0600

We've concluded this round of podcasts from CNI's Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting.

This series of recordings included interviews with (click on the name to hear podcast):

Timo Hannay, Publishing Director for Nature.com at the Nature Publishing Group. The Nature Publishing Group are publishers of Nature and over seventy other scientific journals, plus numerous online resources for scientists and those interested in science.

Julian Lombardi, Assistant Vice President at Duke University and Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium. Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices.

Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). 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.

Steve Wheat and Tod Jackson, both Enterprise Architects for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Founders of the OpenEAI Project. The purpose of the OpenEAI Project is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations.

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Director of Development at the State and University Library in Aarhus, Denmark. She co-presented two sessions at CNI- "Explorative Search and the Library Catalog" and "International Digitial Preservation".

Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.

Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. He studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. Roger is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization.

Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University Librarian. She is a member of the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Executive and a faculty member of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute.

Kim Milford, Special Assistant to the CIO at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis . She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, where she .co-presented a session entitled, "IU ChaCha Search: Research Development, and Services".

We are grateful for the participation of all interviewees and look forward to having more opportunities to share insights and information from people representing an equally diverse range of viewpoints in the future.

We hope you've enjoyed this content and we'd like your feedback. If you have ideas for future coverage, please leave us a comment or email gbayne@educause.edu.

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.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Steve Wheat and Tod Jackson, Co-Founders of the OpenEAI Project

gbayne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:05:31 -0600

In this 14 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Steve Wheat and Tod Jackson, both Enterprise Architects for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Founders of the OpenEAI Project.

The purpose of the OpenEAI Project is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations. We suggest you read the OpenEAI Overview for additional background on enterprise application integration (EAI). The OpenEAI Project is comprised of six distinct, but closely-related departments, which address OpenEAI Methodology, Application Foundation APIs, Message Object API, Message Definitions, Reference Implementations, and Deployment and Administration.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Julian Lombardi, Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium

gbayne — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:51 -0600

In this 15 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Julian Lombardi, Assistant Vice President at Duke University and Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium. Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices.

Dr. Julian Lombardi is the Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support with Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, Senior Research Scholar with Duke University's program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), and an adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science. He is also one of the six principle architects of the Croquet Project, executive director of the Open Croquet Consortium, and a co-chair of MacLearningEnvironments.org. A former biology professor, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems and began designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D environments in the mid-1990s. He eventually founded VIOS, Inc. in 1999 where he acted as the venture capital-backed company's first CEO and then Chief Creative Officer/Software architect. From 2002-2005, he managed a learning technology research and development group in University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Cathrine Harboe-Ree, University Librarian at Monash University

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:07:24 -0600

In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Cathrine Harboe-Ree recorded at the Coalition for Networked Information 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting.

Cathrine Harboe-Ree is the Monash University Librarian. She is a member of the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Executive and a faculty member of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute. She was the CAUL representative on the Australian Government's eResearch Coordinating Committee in 2005 and 2006 and is currently a member of AeRIC (the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council). She has established an electronic press for Monash University, is the project leader of the national institutional repository project, ARROW and is a member of Monash's Research Committee and e-Research Steering Committee.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Jim Neal, VP for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:58:49 -0600

In this 20 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.

Neal has also represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees and was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional and higher education associations. He was selected the 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA), on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and as Chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council. He currently is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and on the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). He has also served on numerous international, national and state professional committees, and is an active member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:55 -0600

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. Roger is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. He has also published The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty (Educause Review, 2007), The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004) and the most comprehensive examination of the systemwide print book collection, “Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2006. Other recent work has focused on the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Timo Hannay, Publishing Director for Nature.com

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:39:32 -0600

In this 14 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Timo Hannay, Publishing Director for Nature.com at the Nature Publishing Group. The Nature Publishing Group are publishers of Nature and over seventy other scientific journals, plus numerous online resources for scientists and those interested in science. One of Hannay's areas of responsibility is new online initiatives in social software, databases and audio-visual content. Timo trained as a neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford and worked as a journalist (The Economist, Nature Medicine) and a management consultant (McKinsey & Co.) before becoming a publisher. His blog can be found here.