Celebrating the Career ofDuane Webster

Coalition for Networked Information

Richard WestExecutive Vice Chancellor

California State University and

Chair, CNI Steering Committee

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?

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

First Executive DirectorPaul Evan Peters

Strategic Positioning of CNI

• Joint governance structure

• Administered by ARL

• Dues structure separate from ARL

• Agile and leading edge capability

• Strong leadership role

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)

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)

CNI 1990-1996

• 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 1997-2008

• 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

Paul Evan Peters Award Recipients

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

Thank you, Duane

• For your leadership role

• For your sense of collaboration

• For your guidance

Celebrating the Career ofDuane Webster

Coalition for Networked Information

Richard WestExecutive Vice Chancellor

California State University and

Chair, CNI Steering Committee