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The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) supports using information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and intellectual productivity. Website at cni.org. Most posts by CNI's Paige Pope.
📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.”
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
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Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
The web has a memory — & we’ve saved 1 trillion pages of it! 🌐
Join us in celebrating the people, stories & technology that preserve our digital world.
📅 Oct 22
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
#Wayback1T
The report "Collective funding models for open access books" explores librarians' experiences in six European contexts. It's relevant for #librarians, publishers, infrastructure providers, and those involved in #OA programs or developing Diamond #OA funding models. 📒 zenodo.org/records/1733...
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📹Now available: Three videos from the Designing Libraries XII Conference at @urochester.bsky.social
-Episodes in Public Architecture: A Candid Reflection
-Supporting Student Well-being & Neurodiversity through Design & Programming
-Sustainable Staffing Models for Experiential Learning
Will #libraries survive #AI?
ARL Executive Director @andrewkpace.bsky.social says, “The answer is not only yes, but that libraries are more important than ever.”
Read more in this @libraryjournal.bsky.social article: www.libraryjournal.com/story/will-l...
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✨ Reminder: Tomorrow, Friday, October 10, is the last day to submit a project briefing proposal for the CNI Fall Membership Meeting.
Connect with peers, share innovative projects, and spark discussion—submit your proposal at:
FREE Regional Cyberinfrastructure Connect Days Workshop, hosted by The Quilt, Oct 22–23 in Madison, WI, for those within driving distance. The 1.5-day workshop supports smaller and mid-sized institutions by strengthening access to cyberinfrastructure resources. Travel support for 45 participants.
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2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Data and Analytics Edition
Higher ed is navigating financial pressures, shifting enrollment, evolving regulatory landscapes, & calls for ethical use of data
Our 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics surfaces both external forces shaping the field & innovations likely to define its future
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Registration is open for the International Digital Curation Conference #IDCC26
🎫Take advantage of the limited amount of Early Bird tickets available until October 31, 2025, or until sold out.
Visit the webpage to register and learn more about ticket types👇
dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
⏳ Friday, October 10 is the last day to submit a project briefing proposal for the CNI Fall Membership Meeting. We invite proposals addressing state-of-the-art developments and cross-institutional or relevant topics in networked information technologies.
06.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs:
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025
2025.jcdl.org/registration/.
CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting ✨ Call for Proposals✨
We're seeking proposals on networked information content and technology for higher education, research, and scholarship.
Submit your proposal today and help shape meaningful conversations at CNI Fall 2025.
📆 Proposal Deadline: October 10
We invite project briefing proposals addressing state-of-the-art developments and cross-institutional or relevant topics in networked information technologies for the CNI membership meeting, where you can connect with peers, share innovative projects, and spark discussion.
📆 Deadline: Oct 10
Invitation to Share Practices on Direct Charging
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Tim McGeary, and Hilary Craiglow invite you to participate in a brief survey exploring how libraries are approaching the direct charging of services and infrastructure to sponsored projects.
🔗 jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The updated @arl.org and CNI Futurescape Libraries #AI Toolkit 🛠️is now openly available. Developed by Carnegie Mellon Dean of Libraries @cmkeithw.bsky.social
for ARL/CNI, the toolkit is designed to help #libraries explore strategies to prepare for various possible AI-influenced futures.
✨ We are accepting proposals for the CNI Fall Meeting in DC this December.
🗓 Deadline: Oct. 10
We welcome proposals that spotlight cutting-edge developments, timely issues, or cross-institutional work in networked information technologies. Anyone can propose—there’s no membership requirement.
In "What’s Missing in AI Ethics Literature", a video from the latest CNI Project Briefing edition, CNI Paul Evan Peters scholarship recipient Adam Berkowitz discusses current trends in AI ethics literature, such as a lack of engagement with frameworks in moral philosophy. 📹
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"Representing Researchers in the Library Linked Data Environment: A Case Study of ORCID Users at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville", a video from our recent CNI Project Briefing edition, reports on a study that explored #ORCID usage at UTK for research support and library catalog metadata.
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Registration is open for the free virtual conference–Deep Dive: Data Governance from the @opensource.org Initiative.
The three-day event will cover data governance, ethics & accountability, open infrastructure, and open source AI, and highlight real-world case studies.
📆 Date: Oct 1–3
✨ The call for proposals for the CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting is open.
Project briefings should address timely issues, developments, or projects in networked information—especially those that are cross-institutional or of broad interest to the CNI membership.
🗓 Deadline: Oct 10
When US policy shifts threatened federal research funding and disrupted agencies central to the knowledge ecosystem, @investinopen.bsky.social ran a survey to explore how #OpenInfrastructure service providers, users, & funders were responding to the volatility. This CNI talk unpacks the findings.
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This CNI talk describes a University at Buffalo Libraries collaboration with the Enugu Ministry of Education to provide #DigitalLiteracy staff training, curriculum development, offline digital resources, and #OpenAccess educational content in low-connectivity environments using Kolibri.
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✨ The call for proposals for the CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting is now open.
Project briefings highlight state-of-the-art developments, timely topics, and projects related to networked information content and technologies.
📍 Meeting: Dec. 11–12 in Washington, DC.
🗓 Deadline: October 10
Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A
04.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This CNI video overviews the new @datadryad.bsky.social fee model that was designed with community input. The video overviews the fee structure and process, and it adds to the conversation on sustainability and business models for #OpenInfrastructure and #DataRepositories.
📹 youtu.be/FlKfnyYsfBA
In this CNI video, @ithakasr.bsky.social overview the results of the Making #AI Generative for #HigherEducation project, which brought together 18 higher education institutions to explore how #GenAI is impacting teaching, learning, and research.
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Registration is open for the the IndigenizeSNAC Edit-a-thon in DC on Nov. 14. The edit-a-thon aims to improve discovery of Indigenous archival material that has been dispersed to multiple repositories. More details are at the registration link.
28.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The @carcc-rcd.bsky.social Research Computing and Data (RCD) Professionalization Working Group launched the 2025 RCD Workforce Survey to gather insights into the roles, characteristics, and job activities of professionals supporting research computing & data in the US and Canada. Survey at the link🔗
26.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What happens to open infrastructures when research policy and funding grow unstable? In a new @cni-org.bsky.social talk, IOI’s Dr. Katherine Skinner shares insights from our community survey on the fragility + resilience of open infrastructures in volatile times.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwJ...
