CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting: Schedule

CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting

Welcome to CNI’s Spring 2025 Membership Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, April 7–8; attendance is limited to member representatives, speakers, and invited guests.

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ROOM CHANGE: All sessions originally scheduled in Executive AB have been moved to the Lakeshore Ballroom (first floor)
The meeting roadmap is now available
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Review CNI’s Code of Conduct

10:30am CDT

Registration Opens Atrium

11:15am CDT

First-Time Attendees Executive CD

12:00pm CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

1:00pm CDT

Opening Plenary: CNI Leadership Update and Paul Evan Peters Award & Memorial Lecture (Lessons from LOCKSS) Regency CD

2:15pm CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

2:45pm CDT

1.1 An Update on Developing a Public Interest Training Commons Regency CDDan Cohen • Thomas Padilla 1.2 Artificial Intelligence Literacy: Building Competency, Confidence, and Collaboration Lakeshore BallroomOren Beit-Arie • Leo Lo • Niamh McGuigan 1.3 What Are We Even Doing Here? Building a Community of People Working with Data Executive CDSophia Lafferty-Hess • Wanda Marsolek • Jennifer Moore

3:30pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium

3:45pm CDT

2.1 Preserving Billions of Photos? Try Data Lifeboat Regency CDGeorge Oates 2.2 Why Open Library Metadata? Lakeshore BallroomTom Cramer • Rochelle Lundy • Simeon Warner 2.3 Cultivating Collaborative Library Scholars: A Multi-Institutional Professional Development Initiative Executive CDYinlin Chen • Jamie Wittenberg

4:15pm CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

4:45pm CDT

3.1 Beyond "This Image May Contain:" Using Vision Language Models to Improve Accessibility for Digital Image Collections Regency CDPeter Broadwell • Lindsay King 3.2 Washington University Libraries and the Digital Intelligence and Innovation Accelerator (DI2): Partnering in Digital Transformation Lakeshore BallroomMimi Calter • Kelly Walker-Moseley • Jennifer Moore 3.3 HBS Knowledge: Building a Foundation for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Discovery Executive CDDavid Nunez • Erin Wise

5:15pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium

5:30pm CDT

Open Forum on Current National Trends: Discussing Key Issues in Today’s Environment Regency CDKarim Boughida • Karen Estlund

6:15pm CDT

Reception Regency AB

7:45am CDT

Breakfast (including discussion tables) Regency ABKarim Boughida • Bill Branan • Hilary Craiglow • Tom Cramer • Jessica Davila • Bryan Gee • Rochelle Lundy • Karen Estlund • Tim McGeary • Natalie Meyers • Jacob Nadal • Devin Savage • Michael Shensky • Cory Tressler • Anu Vedantham • Simeon Warner

9:00am CDT

4.1 Completing the Picture of Institutional Research Output and Impact: Automating Discovery and Assessment of Research Data and Software Regency CDBryan Gee • Michael Shensky 4.2 Studio X: From Vision to Impact—Advancing Extended Reality Research and Education Lakeshore BallroomMeaghan Moody 4.3 The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET): Uniting Stakeholders for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Executive CDJohn Chodacki

9:30am CDT

Passing Break Atrium

9:45am CDT

5.1 Continuing the Conversation: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools and Semantic Search for Digital Collections Regency CDJames Lee • David Schober 5.2 Yale Library Governance and Technical Infrastructure to Fuel Innovation Lakeshore BallroomDale Hendrickson • Ray Frohlich

10:15am CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

10:45am CDT

6.1 Safeguarding Audiovisual Data Regency CDBrewster Kahle • Peter B. Kaufman • David Rowntree 6.2 Smarter Data Management: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Insights and Institutional Integration in the Machine-Actionable DMPs (MAP) Project Lakeshore BallroomCynthia Hudson Vitale • Katherine Koziar • Maria Praetzellis • Jamie Wittenberg 6.3 MetaArchive Across Its Life Cycle: Change and Resilience in the Digital Preservation Ecosystem Executive CDSnowden Becker • Jackson Huang • Alex Kinnaman • Jessica Meyerson • Zach Vowell

11:45am CDT

Lunch Regency AB

1:00pm CDT

7.1 Reconsidering Digital Ecosystems for Curation Lakeshore BallroomAndy Spackman • Lindsey Memory • Reed Jones • Adam Strohm 7.2 Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects Executive CDHope Dunbar • Rachel Senese Myers • Doug Boyd

2:00pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium

2:15pm CDT

Closing Plenary: A Conversation on Cybersecurity, Essential Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education, and Resilience Regency CDClifford Lynch • Brewster Kahle • Cheryl Washington • Elisabeth Long • Keith Webster