From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:15:45 -0400
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Subject: Call for Comments: OCLC report "Registering Researchers in
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At the CNI Spring Member Meeting earlier this week, Karen 
Smith-Yoshimura from OCLC and Micah Altman from MIT gave a wonderful 
presentation of the work of the OCLC Registering Researchers Task 
Group (see 
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/registering-researchers.html 
). We should have the materials from their talk available soon, along 
with other sessions from the Spring meeting.

As part of this presentation, Karen drew attention to a very recently 
released draft report for comment from this group, which I wanted to 
highlight for the CNI community, since it is integral to the issues 
involved in the CNI focus on network-based factual biography. The 
direct URL for the report is

http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/registering-researchers/oclcresearch-registering-researchers-draft-2014-03.docx

see also

http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/registering-researchers/progress.html

for some additional background.

Karen is  looking for comments by April 30.


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI