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CIO’s Brad Wheeler and James Hilton reflect on what Consumerization means to the IT organization.

In this podcast, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Sara Snyder from the Smithsonian Libraries talk about their presentation, "Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?".

Ian Dolphin is Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. In this conversation with John Bucher, CTO for Oberlin College, Dolphin discusses the foundation's products and the benefits of community source.

Sigrun Eckelmann is Program Director for Academic Libraries & Information Systems at the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this interview she described the programs she works with at DFC, the factors driving Germany's funding of research, and her work with Virual Research Environments (VRGs).

Fran Berman is the Edward G. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Chris Greer is the associate director of the IT Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this conversation, they discuss the Research Data Alliance. The RDA vision is “research data exchange for everyone” and its mission is to “use voluntary cooperation and consensus to run an open, global research data infrastructure.”

David S. H. Rosenthal is Chief Scientist for the LOCKSS Program at Stanford University. In this conversation he discusses the pricing and surprising challenges of outsourcing long-term data storage. You can follow his discussions and research by visiting his blog.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2012 Fall Membership Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Carly Strasser is data curation specialist at the UC Curation Center. John Kunze is a preservation technologist for the California Digital Library. In this conversation they highlight three new data-centric developments that support scientists throughout the research data life cycle: the DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE.

Anita de Waard is Vice President for Research Data Collaborations at Elsevier. In 2011 she joined with researchers, publishers, and digital scholars in various fields to create Force 11, a community contemplating and creating for the future of research communications and e-scholarship. In this interview she shares her thoughts on the current state of digital publishing and the formation of Force 11.

Sarah Morrow is a privacy officer for the Pennsylvania State University. In this podcast conversation she talks about the relationship between privacy and institutional interests.