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2015-12-24: CNI Fall 2015 Membership Meeting Trip Report

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The CNI Fall 2015 Membership Meeting was held in Washington, D.C., December 14-15, 2015.  Like all CNI meetings, the Fall 2015 meeting was excellent and contained many high quality presentations.  Unfortunately, the members' project briefings ran simultaneously, with 7 or 8 different presentations overlapping at any given time.  As a result I missed a great deal.  Cliff Lynch kicked off the meeting with reflections about public access to federally funded research (e.g., CRS R42983 ), interoperability (e.g., OAI-ORE , ORCIDs , IIIF ), linked data (e.g., Wikipedia notability guidelines for biographies ),  privacy & surveillance (e.g., eavesdropping Barbies , Ashley Madison data breach , RFC 7624 ), and understanding the personalization algorithms that go into presenting (and thus archiving) the view of the web that you experience (e.g., our 2013 D-Lib Magazine article about mobile vs. desktop & GeoIP ), and much more.  I'm hesitant to try to fur...