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Celebrating the Career of Duane Webster Coalition for Networked Information

Celebrating the Career of Duane Webster Coalition for Networked Information. Richard West Executive Vice Chancellor California State University and Chair, CNI Steering Committee. What is SWIG?. The SouthWest Information Group? The So-called Wayward Internet Groupies?

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Celebrating the Career of Duane Webster Coalition for Networked Information

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  1. Celebrating the Career ofDuane WebsterCoalition for Networked Information Richard West Executive Vice Chancellor California State University and Chair, CNI Steering Committee

  2. What is SWIG? • The SouthWest Information Group? • The So-called Wayward Internet Groupies? • The Spit ‘N Whittle Interest Group? • … • And what does it have to do with CNI?

  3. Founding of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) • The informal roots • SWIG • The formal roots • ARL Task Force on Telecommunications • Educom Networking and Telecommunication Task Force (NTTF) • CAUSE • The CEOs - Duane Webster, Ken King, Jane Ryland

  4. First Executive DirectorPaul Evan Peters

  5. Strategic Positioning of CNI • Joint governance structure • Administered by ARL • Dues structure separate from ARL • Agile and leading edge capability • Strong leadership role

  6. First Task Force MeetingJune 6, 1990 • Nancy Cline: “…the pressing need to identify, organize and access information resources was the primary motivation that led to the formation of the Coalition. To accomplish this feat, though, there is the underlying premise that the three communities can collectively influence the direction of the NREN and how scholars and researchers will access information resources in the years that lie ahead.” (Meeting transcript)

  7. First Task Force MeetingJune 6, 1990 • Jerome Yavarkovsky: “It’s fairly obvious that online publishing would be a dramatic and radical transformation in the way that scholarship is conducted and reported. Its impact would extend from university tenuring and promotion criteria to learned society conference arrangements and proceedings, to the management of the publishing industry. In the universities, faculty and administration must accept the legitimacy of electronic publishing.” (Meeting transcript)

  8. Rights for Electronic Access and Delivery Information (READI) project Elsevier TULIP project launched at a CNI meeting CNI sponsors an electronic dissertations meeting CNI sponsors a Z39.50 testbed Access to Public Information initiative New Learning Communities program White paper on network information discovery & retrieval CNI 1990-1996

  9. Institution-wide information strategies program White paper on authentication and access management Article on institutional repositories as infrastructure and survey of repositories Focus on cyberinfrastructure in sciences and humanities Programs on stewardship of research data Programs on learning spaces and new services for students CNI 1997-2008

  10. Paul Evan Peters Award Recipients

  11. Into the future… • CNI will continue to serve as an incubator of ideas • It will continue to be the bridge between library and IT communities

  12. Thank you, Duane • For your leadership role • For your sense of collaboration • For your guidance

  13. Celebrating the Career ofDuane WebsterCoalition for Networked Information Richard West Executive Vice Chancellor California State University and Chair, CNI Steering Committee

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