Recent talks on stewardship at scale by CNI director Clifford Lynch are now available online:
Challenges of Stewardship at Scale in the Digital AgeIndiana University School of Informatics and Computing Distinguished Speaker Series, Jan. 30, 2014http://youtu.be/rfvLlQ2nZj0"Over the centuries, we have developed a very
complex system for managing and preserving our intellectual and cultural
record. This system is now under enormous strain and trying to respond
and adapt to changes in how we communicate and the ways in which
technology can represent various modes of communication. We are
recognizing that, particularly for digital materials, much more active
stewardship is required; this has given rise to a major focus on data
curation in the scholarly world. In addition, many stewardship
institutions are no longer economically sustainable or stable, and for a
number of reasons we are entering an era where I believe transitions of
stewardship responsibility from one organization to another will become
increasingly commonplace. My talk will examine all of these
developments in contexts that range from management of research data to
art collections, and will consider social, economic and technological
forces reshaping the landscape."
Keynote Address: Sharing and Preserving Scholarship: Challenges of Coherence and Scale CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) 2014 Annual Conference, March 10, 2014 "Scholarly practice in all disciplines — humanities, sciences, and social
sciences — increasingly relies upon high performance computing, novel
and advanced distributed sensor systems, high-speed networking and
massive data resources. Our cultural and intellectual record broadly,
not just the record of scholarship, is taking on new dimensions and
characteristics and now exists largely in digital form; this record is
essential evidence for future scholarship as well as a memory for our
society. We are also seeing a series of societal changes that are
placing a much greater emphasis on public access, transparency and
reproducibility in these large scale records of scholarship and society.
A central challenge facing the higher education, research and cultural
memory sectors is how to develop the necessary strategies and supporting
infrastructure to deal with these demands effectively, affordably, and
at the requisite scale. In my presentation, I will explore the specifics
of these challenges and briefly outline some of the responses that are
emerging."
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