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Developing and Managing
Networked Information Content
Digital Preservation
Preservation and long-term management of digital information has emerged as a central issue in the shift to network-based scholarly publishing, and more recently as a broad and fundamental social and public policy question for our society. CNI continues to work with ARL and other partner organizations such as the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) in developing economic, business and organizational models for preservation; in exploring technologies to manage the archiving of digital content, and in identifying priorities for preservation action. We are also collaborating with the Library of Congress in their efforts to develop a national digital preservation strategy. During 1999-2000 most of our work focused on strategies for preserving scholarly journals in digital form; this led to a number of pilot projects involving CNI member institutions (many funded through the Andrew W. ... We will also focus strongly on economic and legal issues involved in digital archiving during the coming year.
A second group of activities address the management of intellectual and institutional assets within higher education in the digital environment. ...
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Theses and dissertations are another key part of the content created by the higher education community; also, because the process of their creation is so integral to the process of higher education, they offer a unique opportunity to train new scholars in the creation of digital documents, and for institutions to formalize their management. ... CNI is a member of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) program, and serves on the steering committee of this enterprise. ...
Content from the arts, the humanities, and the cultural heritage community represents an important scholarly resource for the networked environment; indeed, making much of this information available in digital form should greatly increase its accessibility and usefulness. ...
Strategies for Creating Large Scale Digital Content Resources
Several nations are investing heavily in the creation of digital content in the public interest; of particular note are programs in the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as initiatives taking place within the European Union framework. ... However, proposals such as the "Digital Gift to the Nation" (discussed at the Spring 2001 Task Force meeting) have begun to raise the question of what the priorities for such investment might be in the United States - for example, how to balance the creation of new digital content against the retrospective digitization of existing materials. ...
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Transforming Organizations,
Professions, and Individuals
One of the greatest challenges facing the CNI community is the development of effective strategies for collaboration among librarians, information technologists, instructional technologists and faculty to address new teaching and learning opportunities opened up by the networked digital medium. ... Many of our member organizations are also struggling with questions of how to create or renovate physical spaces to house these activities, and more broadly how to design spaces to support changing practices of scholarship in a digital world. ... As well as the major program initiatives described here, CNI is closely tracking a wide range of technology and standards developments in areas as diverse as identifiers, digital books, efforts related to the realization of the semantic web, and recommender systems and personalization. ...
Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Initiative
In 2000 CNI launched a major new initiative in the infrastructure and standards area with its investment (jointly with the Digital Library Federation) in the Open Archives Initiative. ... This can be used to federate e-print archives, publisher web sites, or collections of digital objects created from special collections or museum holdings, for example.
Approximate Word count = 2936
Approximate Pages = 11.7
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