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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 8h

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.

Regional Cyberinfrastructure Connect Days In-Person Workshop - The Quilt

October 22 – 23, 2025Regional CyberinfrastructureConnect Days In-Person Workshop

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EDUCAUSE @educause.bsky.social · 2d

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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2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Data and Analytics Edition

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 1d

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👇
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 2d

⏳ 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.

Project Briefing Proposals

CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting December 11-12, 2025 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC Submit a proposal until October 10, 2025. About the Briefings Project briefings …

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JCDL 2025 @jcdl2025.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢🚨🔔 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/.

Registration - JCDL 2025

More details about registration for ACM/IEEE JCDL will be announced soon. The anticipated registration fee is expected to be: Regular $195 ($160 for ACM/IEEE members) Student $140 ($115 for ACM/IEEE s...

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 7d

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

Project Briefing Proposals

CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting December 11-12, 2025 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC Submit a proposal until October 10, 2025. About the Briefings Project briefings …

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 13d

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

Project Briefing Proposals

CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting December 11-12, 2025 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC Submit a proposal until October 10, 2025. About the Briefings Project briefings …

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 16d

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.

Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit — Association of Research Libraries

View the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshops page for information about those events and to register. Table of Contents Foreword Futurescape Libraries: A Toolkit for Library Leaders Navigating ...

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 19d

✨ 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.

Project Briefing Proposals

CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting December 11-12, 2025 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC Submit a proposal until October 10, 2025. About the Briefings Project briefings …

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 20d

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. 📹

What’s Missing in Artificial Intelligence Ethics Literature

This report critiques current trends in AI ethics literature, noting a lack of engagement with frameworks in moral philosophy. Many texts address ethical concerns without referencing ethical…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 22d

"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.

Representing Researchers in the Library Linked Data Environment: A Case Study of ORCID Users at UTK

Representing Researchers in the Library Linked Data Environment: A Case Study of ORCID Users at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville This study explored Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 23d

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

Deep Dive: Data Governance Conference

A premier virtual gathering of leading AI & Data practitioners. What we’ll cover Key dates Schedule View schedule on mobile and in your timezone Time (EDT, UTC -4) Session Speaker…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 26d

✨ 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

Project Briefing Proposals

CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting December 11-12, 2025 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC Submit a proposal until October 10, 2025. About the Briefings Project briefings …

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 28d

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.

Vital Open Infrastructures in a Volatile Moment

As extreme policy shifts in the US threatened billions in federal research funding and disrupted agencies central to the knowledge ecosystem early this year, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

Scaling Digital Literacy in Nigeria: Kolibri's Journey

The University at Buffalo Libraries has collaborated with the Enugu Ministry of Education to provide digital literacy staff training, curriculum development, and offline digital resources. In…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨ 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

CNI Call for Proposals: Fall 2025 Membership Meeting

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) invites project briefing proposals for our Fall 2025 Membership Meeting, taking place December 11–12 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Artificial Intelligence Bots and Repositories—Results and Next Steps from COAR Survey

There are a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) bots crawling repositories. These automated bots, or crawlers, navigate the internet, gathering data and indexing information for search…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

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A Community-designed Plan for Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure

Dryad hopes to make a valuable contribution to the long-standing questions of how to fund both open infrastructure and research data repositories with the introduction of a new fee structure this…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

Making Artificial Intelligence Generative for Higher Education: A Multi-Institution Research Project

The Making Artificial Intellience (AI) Generative for Higher Education project, led by the non-profit organization Ithaka S+R, brings together 18 institutions of higher education in the U.S. and…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

Indigenous Edit-a-thon November 14 IN-PERSON Registration

Part 3 | IndigenizeSNAC Series Indigenous SNAC Edit-a-thon Hosted at the Library of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (750 9th St NW, Washington, DC--metro accessible!) November 14, 11:30 am-5 pm ES...

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Aug 26

The @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🔗

RCD Workforce Survey

Survey about the Research Computing and Data Workforce

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Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · Aug 26

What 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.
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨ The Summer 2025 CNI Project Briefing Edition is now live, featuring seven community-contributed videos on topics such as open infrastructure, digital literacy, identity management, and more.

Read the edition guide & watch the videos at:

Edition Guide: CNI Summer 2025 Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series

We invite you to explore the summer 2025 edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. This collection comprises contributions covering a range of topics, including open infrastructure, di…

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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎙️LIVE: CNI Interviews from EDUCAUSE:
-Developing AI Literacy for Faculty & Librarians
-Building The Public Interest Corpus for AI & Computational Research
-Access & Preservation in the AV Age
-Collaboration Fuels Digital Transformation at WashU
-Borrowed Infrastructure & Institutional Resilience

The CNI Interviews Podcast

This podcast features a selection of interviews from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meetings. It highlights conversations with leaders,

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