The following set of links/announcements from CNI's Clifford Lynch help to frame many of our recent posts about the future of publishing, scholarly communications, and our course management platforms in the context of cyberinfrastructure.

Even though these documents have been out for a few days already, I wanted to be sure that CNI-announce readers were aware of them, as they are very important.

First, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure has released version 7 of its Cyberinfrastructure Vision document, which establishes its agenda for the next few years. While earlier versions of this document have been circulated for public comment, this is the first full version to be available. You can find this at

http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf

or linked from the main Office of Cyberinfrastructure page at

http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OCI

where you can also now find a set of pointers to many of the NSF-sponsored cyberinfrastructure workshops that have taken place over the last few years.

In addition, the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities has released the final draft of its report, which can be found linked from the Commission's web page at:

http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/

This is a major revision of the earlier draft report that was released last year (and discussed at the fall and spring CNI task force meetings, among other venues.) [Disclosure: I serve as an advisor to the Commission.]

In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee has released a draft 2007-2009 strategy for comment. You can find the document, and information on how to submit comments, here:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/draft_strategy0709.html

I'm not sure these are exactly beach reading, but I hope you find them valuable.