CNI2006spring

We've concluded this round of podcasts from CNI's 2006 Spring Task Force meeting.  This series of recordings included interviews with:

• Cliff Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI
• Paul Ginsparg, the latest recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award.
• Roy Rosenzweig, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
• Brad Wheeler, CIO at the University of Indiana
• Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University
• Don Waters, Program Officer for Scholarly Communication at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Eric Celeste, Associate University Librarian at the University of Minnesota
• Fred Heath, Vice Provost and Director at University of Texas at Austin
• Joyce Ray, Deputy Director for Library Services at IMLS
• Kate Wittenberg, Director of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia
• Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology @ the North Carolina State University Libraries
• Kevin Guthrie, President of Ithaka
• Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
• Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
• Ira Fuchs, Vice President for Research in Information Technology at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Nancy Eaton, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at The Pennsylvania State University
• NITLE's Bryan Alexander and Michael Richwalsky
• Marjory Blumenthal, Associate Provost responsible for Academic Affairs at Georgetown
• Merrilee Proffitt, a Program Officer in RLG’s Member Programs division
• The University of California's Terry Ryan and Luc Declerck
• The University of Tennessee's Barbara Dewey and Julie Little
• William LeFurgy representing the  Library of Congress and their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

We're very grateful for their participation and we look to opportunities to share more insights and information from people representing an equally diverse range of viewpoints in the future.  I'd, personally, like to express a word of gratitude to Angelo Cruz, Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Joan Lippincott  and the rest of the team at CNI for being such gracious hosts and great collaborators.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 matt@educause.edu.- Thanks for tuning in! 

In this 20 minute recording, we'll hear from Joyce Ray, Deputy Director for Library Services at the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.  Among other things, we'll talk about their work with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, their Librarians for the 21st Century program, and the conference they hosted at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.  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 17 minute recording, we'll hear from Marjory Blumenthal, Associate Provost responsible for Academic Affairs at Georgetown.  We'll talk about her work with with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, issues affecting the development of internet, and insights gleaned from her work on the book, Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity.  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 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

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 22 minute recording, we'll hear from Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).   She'll be sharing some information about the activities of SPARC, The Alliance for Taxpayer Access, and we'll talk about open access.  We'll also touch on their international efforts including the launch of SPARC Japan and SPARC's interest in the World Intellectual Property Organization.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Fred Heath, Vice Provost and Director at University of Texas at Austin.  We'll touch on the decision to repurpose a building that housed a library of 90,000 books, learn why their library is encouraging students to use google, and find out about libqual.  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 33 minute recording, I sit down with NYU's Howard Besser.  Howard is a Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, as well as Senior Scientist for Digital Library Initiatives for NYU's Library.Among other things, he'll share some thoughts on issues facing distance learning, the importance of archiving the raw materials of research, and issues affecting the development and availability of image databases. 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 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

In this 29 minute recording, I sit down with Bryan Alexander, Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education and Michael Richwalsky, Web Administrator at Allegheny College.  We'll be discussing their presentation at CNI's 2006 Spring Task Force meeting about Gnosh.  We'll also chat broadly about social software, web 2.0, microcontent and podcasting.If you haven't seen Bryan's recent article about Web 2.0, check it out at:http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp 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 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Bill LeFurgy as he shares some thoughts on the Library of Congress and their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).  We'll hear a bit about the digtial collections that the Library of Congress and its partners have assembled -- including polling data, coverage of elections and hurrican katrina on the web, and materials from 9/11 (see my interview with Roy Rosenzweig for more on that).  We'll also hit on data provenance, demand-side selection/archival, the concept of data provenance, and the role for extrensic motivation for contributing to archival repositories.  The Forbes article mentioned in this recording is available here. 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 19 minute recording, I sit down with University of Tennessee's Barbara Dewey and Julie Little.  We'll learn about their information commons and touch briefly on the concept of a virtual commons, and highlight some potential challenges associated with designing systems so that they're usable on a variety of mobile devices.An earlier interview with Julie at last year's EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is also available, as is a recent one hosted by Jarrett Cummings.  Julie has also published a podcast introducing their information commons.  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 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

In this 22 minute recording, I'll sit down with Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology @ the North Carolina State University Libraries to get a feel for what shaped their selection of Endeca's Information Access Solutions.   If you haven't seen their new catalog, you've got to check it out!  We'll also chat a bit about the potential for social software, the final report of the University of California's Bibliographic Services Task Force (PDF), and the use of  Segway Human Transporters at the library.  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 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