Coalition for Networked Information

Through its twenty years of operation, MetaArchive, the first and longest-running Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) has been consistently defining what it entails to be a digital preservation network created and hosted by and for memory organizations. Now, as the first PLN to undergo a deliberative sunset, there is the opportunity to share lessons in how endings can be carried out with as much intention and care as beginnings. MetaArchive Across Its Life Cycle: Change and Resilience in the Digital Preservation Ecosystem

The CNI panel, “MetaArchive Across Its Life Cycle: Change & Resilience in the Digital Preservation Ecosystem,” discussed how community-owned digital infrastructure can, and should, incorporate contingencies for sunsetting into sustainability. Watch at: youtu.be/UfKYpx69ASE snowdenbecker.bsky.social

Scholaris is a new national shared repository service that supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian scholarship. Reflections on Building Community Infrastructure for a Shared Repository Service

The Canadian Scholaris initiative used collaborative approaches to build a shared national repository platform. This CNI briefing overviews the technical background and development of community-driven infrastructure for a shared repository service.

📹 Watch at: youtu.be/G9Tua1qMrDI

This session reports on the findings of the DATALIS program, part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded LEADING project, which sought to use an innovation management approach. LEADING: DATALIS Project Update: Future Directions in Professional Education & the Innovation Funnel

This CNI video shares outcomes of the #DATALIS program, part of the LEADING project. The initiative reimagined professional education pathways in #DataScience and #librarianship, and recently envisioned potential future pathways for professional education. 📹 youtu.be/073uPWrpPug #DataScience

Kate Zwaard Courtesy: Shawn Miller and the Library of Congress

We look forward to welcoming Kate Zwaard as the next Executive Director of CNI, effective September 15, 2025. She will join CNI from the Library of Congress, where she presided over the Library’s digital transformation.

Full announcement: www.cni.org/news/kate-zw... @arl.org @educause.bsky.social

Call for Submissions | DCC

📢#IDCC26 Submission deadlines extended📢

Deadlines have been extended to support the community to submit proposals over the summer⬇️
📅3 August 2025 - Papers and Lightning Talks
📅14 September 2025 - Posters
📅30 September 2025 - Workshops

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YouTube video by EDUCAUSE Building an AI Model Grounded in Scholarship | The CNI Interviews Podcast

In the CNI Interviews podcast episode "Building The Public Interest Corpus for AI & Computational Research" @dancohen.org & @thomaspadilla.bsky.social explain the development of a corpus for AI training using digitized materials from libraries, archives, & special collections. @educause.bsky.social

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🎙️ CLIR is thrilled to announce that Recordings at Risk will continue with 2 new grant cycles in 2025 & 2026, thanks to generous support from the Mellon Foundation.

📼 First time ever: Canadian nonprofits can apply alongside U.S. orgs.

MORE: www.clir.org/2025/07/mell...

Using the example of a RAG pipeline developed at University of Victoria Libraries, this CNI video investigates the potential & challenges of integrating #LLMs with #RAG to transform access to web archives, with a focus on infrastructure, data quality, and ethical AI integration: youtu.be/cs3iXyV4kLs

"Clifford A. Lynch has left an indelible mark of wisdom and intellectual curiosity on the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), on our profession, and on the pursuit of intellectual productivity." -andrewkpace.bsky.social & John O'Brien in "Networking Networks" muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108

In Bringing AI into Focus with Viewfinder, doralyn.bsky.social and jasonclark.bsky.social introduce a toolkit from the Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project that guides ethical AI adoption in libraries and helps practitioners assess AI implementations. youtu.be/-N0u7OMebtw #AI #Libraries

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Federal Agency Publication Policy Overview & FAQ . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. In response to the 2022 Nelson Memo, federal agencies are required to update their public access policies by the end of this year. New policies are now in effect for several agencies: the NIH, CDC, AH...

On Aug. 5, we're co-hosting a webcast w/ @authorsalliance.bsky.social to provide an overview of revised federal agency publication sharing policies that are now in effect. sparcopen-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎉Designing Libraries XII registration now open! The conference will be held at the University of Rochester on September 28-30, 2025, with the usual stimulating program full of timely topics and tours of the renovated spaces at the River Campus libraries: www.library.rochester.edu/designinglib...

Artificial intelligence (AI) text detection tools are considered a means of preserving the integrity of scholarly publication by identifying whether a text is written by humans or generated by AI. In the presented study, three popular tools (GPTZero, ZeroGPT, and DetectGPT) are tested in two experiments... The Accuracy-Bias Trade-Offs in AI Text Detection Tools & Their Impact on Fairness in Publication

The CNI video, Accuracy-Bias Trade-Offs in AI Text Detection Tools, discusses a study to evaluate the use of #AI detection technologies for #scholarly publishing. The results highlight the limitations and possible pitfalls of using these tools. 🔎
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YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Developing Scalable Library Research Training

📚 The UC San Diego Library launched a self-directed learning model to foster research skills and evolve health science library instruction. This CNI video explains the model’s development and how it is a foundation for broader AI-assisted research support: youtu.be/NPrbCe2PlVE #HigherEdTech

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2025 - JCDL 2025 About the Event The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused on research and practice in digital libraries, bridging technical, practical, and…

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will be on December 15-19; the conference will be fully virtual. The call for proposals has been released. As we have for many years, CNI is delighted to be a cooperating organization for this important annual conference. #JCDL #DigitalLibraries

ACLS Announces 2025-26 Fellowship and Grant Competitions ACLS is pleased to announce its 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions, which support research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

ACLS is pleased to announce our 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions. We offer programs that support research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4lI8A3C

#humanities #socialsciences #funding

As humanities research increasingly relies on large-scale data, ethical considerations in curation become critical, particularly in representing marginalized... Ethical Data Curation in Libraries and Archives: The Dana A. Dorsey Collection

This CNI video highlights Enhancing Access and Research Possibilities through Critical Engagement with Historical Data, which used Florida International University Library's Dana A. Dorsey Collection—papers from Miami’s first Black millionaire—to curate open datasets. #DigitalHumanities

‪Special thanks as well to the @hopkinspress.bsky.social Journals Division and @projectmuse.bsky.social

The issue documents Cliff's legacy and is a resource for scholars of networking, digital preservation, research libraries, and CNI. @andrewkpace.bsky.social @johnobrienedu.bsky.social @djw0952.bsky.social @dancohen.org @rschon.bsky.social @judyruttenberg.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social

A photo of the cover of the special issue, "Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch" and an image of Clifford Lynch

The special issue, Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, guest edited by Joan K. Lippincott, is available as an open access supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy via Project Muse 📔 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108

We are grateful to all who made this tribute possible!

The first portion of this presentation covering the background and motivation for this project was not captured on video, but you can read about it at www.pu... An Update on Developing The Public Interest Corpus

@authorsalliance.bsky.social and @northeasternlib.bsky.social are working with librarians, researchers, publishers, technologists, and authors to plan a public interest training corpus—an #AI training dataset that aligns with public interest values. 📹 Watch the CNI update.

📁📹Materials from Open Repositories are available at:
zenodo.org/communities/...

@hjoseph.bsky.social's "The Role of Open Access to Knowledge in a Challenging Political Landscape": zenodo.org/records/1579...

Ben Zhao's "Dealing with #GenAI, Harms & Mitigation Techniques": zenodo.org/records/1579...

LAG Seminar 2026 – Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - LIBER Europe LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.

🛠️ The LIBER Architectures Group is accepting proposals for its 2026 Seminar at the Technological University Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. The brings together library professionals, architects, designers, and other stakeholders in the library architecture and design field to share insights.

CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting - YouTube CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting videos at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Milwaukee, Wisconsin

🎉All videos from our Spring 2025 Membership Meeting are now live and openly available for viewing. Thank you to all of our presenters and attendees for joining us and advancing our mission. See the full playlist at: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Digital Preservation 2025 - Where We're At (Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times) ### About the NDSA and Digital Preservation 2025 (Virtual) The NDSA is a consortium of [{{ site.data.members.count }} organizations](/membership/members/) committed to the long-term preservatio...

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) invites proposals for its annual conference, Digital Preservation 2025: Where We're At (Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times). The virtual event will take place Oct. 9-10. Submit by: July 7 (submissions from members and non-members are welcome)

Graphic featuring a headshot of Peter B. Kaufman and the podcast title: Access and Preservation in the Audiovisual Age

🎧Listen now: Access and Preservation in the Audiovisual Age
with Peter B. Kaufman, a CNI Interviews Podcast from @educause.bsky.social @mitopencourseware.bsky.social

Hear the episode at: er.educause.edu/podcasts/the...

Collaboration Fuels Digital Transformation at Washington University Washington University launched the Digital Intelligence and Innovation Accelerator to drive digital transformation and support researchers. The univer

New #CNIInterviews podcast release from @educause.bsky.social featuring Mimi Calter and Kelly Walker-Moseley, on how “Collaboration Fuels Digital Transformation at Washington University”

Listen and learn at 🎧: er.educause.edu/podcasts/the...

The HBS Knowledge platform is a dynamic knowledge graph designed to enhance the discovery and integration of research, people, and ideas across Harvard Busin... HBS Knowledge: Building a Foundation for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Discovery

🔎 The HBS Knowledge platform is building a smarter, more connected research ecosystem at Harvard Business School. Launched in 2021 and reimagined in 2025, this dynamic knowledge graph links people, research, and ideas across campus, and powering discovery and enabling semantic search.

🎉The program is now available for the 2025 DLF Forum happening in Denver, Colorado, November 17-19: forum2025.diglib.org

Cultivating Collaborative Library Scholars: A Multi-Institutional Professional Development InitiativeThis briefing shares 18-month outcomes from a collaborat... Cultivating Collaborative Library Scholars: Multi-Institutional Professional Development

This CNI session shares outcomes from an 18-month, multi-institution initiative focused on advancing library-led research, workforce development, and cross-campus collaboration. Learn how the program strengthened academic libraries' roles as research partners and drove cultural and policy change.