More Materials from the CNI Spring Meeting Now Available
A couple of weeks ago we posted links to five of the many project briefings that took place only a couple of days earlier at the Coalition for Networked Information Spring Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
+ Taking the Library Outside the Library: A Light-weight Innovation Model for Heavy-weight Economic Times
+ Status Report: NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project
+ Using Digital Video for Research – Getting Beyond YouTube: Segmenting, Annotating and Archiving Digital Video Using the Annotator’s Workbench
+ Interoperable Annotation: A Reference Implementation for the Open Annotation Collaboration
Today, materials from more briefings are available. So, we'll link to five more (see below) plus materials from the plenary sessions. We also need to temind you that there are still even more briefings. To view the complete list visit this page.
Sandra G. Yee, Wayne State University
Jonathan McGlone, Wayne State University
Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University
Nardina Mein, Wayne State University
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