There's a flood of interesting reports coming out lately. Here are a few that I wanted to share with the CNI community.  Forgive me for aggregating a diverse set of materials in one announcement.


1. Digital Science has come out with their 2021 edition of their annual "State of Open Data" report. See

https://www.digital-science.com/resource/the-state-of-open-data-2021/


2. Our colleagues at the Knowledge Exchange (a consortium of European research funders) has recently issued "The Art of Publishing Reproducible Research Outputs - Supporting Emerging Practices through Technological and Cultural Innovation", at

https://zenodo.org/record/5521077#.Ya7imy9OnPw

3. Thomas Padilla has been leading a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation exploring collections as data. This project includes regranting to a number of collaborating organizations that became part of two cohorts. See

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/

They recently held a webinar where institutions from the second cohort reported out; I was fortunate to be able to see some of these presentations, and it's fascinating work. The webinar video isn't yet available, but reports from the institutions are, and can be found at:

https://osf.io/r9n3s/wiki/home/


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI