D2I Seminar Series - Illinois Research Data Initiative

Today's D2I Seminar is by old friend Beth Sandore Namachchivaya (See Beth's picture below) from the University of Illinois Libraries. She is speaking about the planning going into their Illinois Research Data Initiative at 4pm eastern today (March 26, 2012). For all of you who are not in Bloomington (if you are in Bloomington head over to Innovation Center (IC) Room 105, 2719 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN and join us) you can tune in live online using our wonderful adobe connect setup at : http://breeze.iu.edu/beth-sandore-2012/

 

 

 

RDAP 2012 Meeting in New Orleans

Just went to the Research Data Access and Preservation Meeting 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Great meeting overall. I really enjoyed the size of the meeting and getting to speak with so many people working on data curation issues at institutional, national, and international levels. I really enjoyed hearing more in-depth discussion of the arXiv and @DataDryad communities and their respective plans for sustainability. I also appreciated hearing the many different pedagogical approaches from institutions like George Mason University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Wisconsin, and University of Illinois.

I could not believe that Peter Fox mentioned Charles S. Peirce in his talk, philosopher and mathematician. I was really into him back in the day and it reminded me that I need to read more besides just technical manuals.

See below for our small appetizer experience at the Praline Connection, thanks to @pemulis for photo and for Joe Hourcle for posing for this cool photo.

Tour of James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University

So yesterday, thanks to our wonderful hosts Susan Nutter and Kristin Antelman, the Kuali OLE Functional Council got a VIP tour of the still under construction James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University. This library will be impressive. It is located at the Centennial Campus Research Park and has some fantastic computing visualization options including some advanced visualization spaces designed by Christie Digital. Additionally, they have some new media areas that are part black box theater as well as part visualization cave. In addition to all of this, they can store up to 2 million volumes in their compact storage book robot setup. Lots of things to learn from this design and the eventual implementation which will happen next winter in 2013. This type of design is the first modern research library I have seen in the U.S.

Vote for 2013 DLF Fall Forum Location

Voting is now open for the location of the Digital Library Federation Forum for 2013.

The vote is between Indianapolis, IN and Austin, TX. Both are great cities and have lots to offer but I am hoping it will come to my hometown metropolis especially since Austin got to host one back in 2005.

Either way I hope if you are someone who attends or sends your personnel to DLF that you will vote see the link below:

http://www.diglib.org/forums/poll-where-should-the-2013-dlf-forum-be-held/

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Kuali OLE Functional Council Meets at Durham, NC

So this week I am in Durham, NC meeting with the Kuali OLE Functional Council and the JISC/OLE GOKb Steering Group. Yesterday, I got to go to Foster's Market and had a great brunch with my mom and my aunt (See pics). Last night, I went on a walk with Mike Winkler and we found some cool stuff in downtown Durham, including the old Chesterfield building (See pics) and the Fishmonger's Seafood Market. Later on we went to dinner with a huge group at Dos Perros (See pics).


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Congratulations to Wheeler and Wilkin Named Chronicle Tech Innovators

Congratulations to friends and colleagues Brad Wheeler and John Wilkin who were both named Tech Innovator's by the Chronicle of Higher Education. I can't stress enough how even their own technology innovations have influenced areas that I am working in projects like the HathiTrust Research Center and Kuali OLE. Congratulations to Brad and John on their innovative work.

For more on the Chronicle coverage, please see

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Google Doodle Honors Sound Pioneer Hertz

Today's google doodle honors 155th birthday of heinrich hertz who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light, paving the way for the invention of the telegraph, radio, and, later on, television.

See more on silicon republic - http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/25905-google-doodle-applauds/

Or Google - http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#q=Heinrich+Rudolf+Hertz&ct=hertz-2011-hp&oi=ddle&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=f0b85e3c6de8b9f9&biw=1680&bih=989

Ohio and Indiana Launch Nation’s First 100 Gbps High-Speed State Research Networks By Connecting to Internet2’s 100 Gbps Network

New Networks To Advance Innovation, Research & Education, Medicine and Business

Ann Arbor, Mich.—Feb. 17, 2012—Internet2 today announced that Ohio and Indiana are the first states to launch a 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) research and education network by connecting to Internet2’s Advanced Layer 2 network--the first transcontinental 100 Gbps network in the world. The network serves as an innovation platform that connects higher education institutions throughout the world.

"Connecting to Internet2's 100 Gbps network and platform dramatically advances Indiana’s and Ohio’s ability to provide its researchers, students and educators with more advanced capabilities than anything available off campus,” said Dave Lambert, CEO and President, Internet2. “Over the past 30 years, the creation and evolution of the Internet and the information economy is directly linked to investments at leading American research universities, and the creation of some of the most successful global companies, like Cisco, Google and Facebook. I look forward to seeing the next innovations to advance education, healthcare, and the global economy.”

For more information about Ohio’s ten-fold boost to their broadband network, go to http://www.oar.net/press/releases/2012/2012_100G.shtml

To learn about Indiana’s new ultra-high speed network, go to http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/21069.html

About Internet2

Internet2 ®, created and led by U.S. research universities, is one of the worldʼs most advanced networking consortia for global researchers and scientists, who develop breakthrough Internet technologies and applications, and spark tomorrowʼs essential innovations. Internet2 consists of more than 350 U.S. universities; corporations; government agencies; laboratories; higher learning; other major national, regional and state research and education networks; and organizations.

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Kuali Open Library Environment on Educause Live Archive

The Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) has just completed its first year of building a community-source library management system. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and part of the Kuali Foundation, the Kuali OLE project is one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the United States. Our community of nine research libraries is working together to build the first open-source system designed by and for academic and research libraries for managing and delivering intellectual information. We’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities discovered in our first year and offer insight into our design and collaborative methodologies. Finally, we’ll review our first code release and our roadmap for future releases.

For Full Archived Session: http://net.educause.edu/LIVE1202
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