Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks

2–3 December 2024
In-person at Flinders U, Adelaide City Campus (Station Road, Adelaide; Room 606)
Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS)
6th annual gathering
Submissions: before 18 October, via this link
Registration (free): via this link

About our program

Registration is necessary for this event, and is free of charge thanks to the genrosity of our partners and sponsors. See this link.
Our gathering includes keynote presentations, conference sessions, and an organised panel. Keynotes involve a presentation of 40-45 minutes, followed by discussion and Q&A moderated by the chair. Conference sessions consist of longer talks (10-15 minutes) and shorter ones (5-7 minutes), with discussion and Q&A following all presentations, facilitated by the chair. The organised panel will consist of long and short presentation, with discussion and Q&A facilitated by the session chair following presentations. Tea breaks and lunches will be catered for all registrants; we are very grateful to our sponsors for the support in this and more.
CAPOS ’24 is sponsored by the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarshop (CAPOS), the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with further generous support from The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), Australian Research Data Commons, AusStage, Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts, and Western Sydney Univeristy

Program

Day 1: Monday December 2nd, 8:45am – 6:00pm

8:45am – 9:30am: Registration

9:30am – 9:45am: Welcome to Country

9:45am – 10:00am: Welcome to Event: Tully Barnett (Flinders U), Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National U), and Ray Siemens (U Victoria)

10:00am – 11:00am: Keynote: Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
Speakers: Jenny Fewster (Australian Research Data Commons, HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons) and Robert dhurwain McLellan (U Queensland, and Language Data Commons of Australia), “CAREful FAIRness and principles for Indigenous Data Governance” [Abstract]
Chair: Tully Barnett (Flinders U)

11:00am – 11:30am: Morning Tea Break

11:30am – 1:00pm: Session 1, Panel: Open Cultural Data and its Infrastructures
Chair: Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National U)

Caroline Wake (UNSW): “Introduction to the Australian Creative Histories and Futures Project”
Chris Hay (Flinders U): “AusStage and its role with ACHF”
Maggie Nolan (U Queensland): ”AustLit and its role with ACHF”
Tully Barnett (Flinders U: “Cultural data”

1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm – 3:30pm: Session 2: Platforms, Approaches
Chair: TBC

Graham Jensen (U Victoria): “Growth Platforms of a Different Kind: Not-for-Profit Digital Research Commons as Platforms for Building Community and Increasing Access to Knowledge” [Abstract]
Zhiwei Wang (U Edinburgh): “Being an ‘ICHINA’ Online – Everyday Discursive and Habitual (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity in the Era of Consumerism and Fandom” [Abstract]
Leah Henrickson, Maggie Nolan (U Queensland): “Australian AI in the Archive: An AustLit Project” [Abstract]
Kit Greenhill (Australian Research Data Commons): “Considering skills for researchers to co-create digital research infrastructure” [Abstract]

3:30pm – 4:00pm: Afternoon Tea Break

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Keynote: Open Access to Open Research Infrastructure
Speaker: Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), “From Open Access to Open Research Infrastructure: CRKN’s evolving strategy to meet the needs of open digital scholarship” [Abstract]
Chair: Ray Siemens (U Victoria)

5:00pm – 6:00pm: Networking Drinks (sponsored by ARDC); Dinner (at own expense)

Day 2: Tuesday December 3rd, 8:45am – 5:00pm

8:45am – 9:00am: Registration

9:00am – 10:00am: Keynote: Citizen Science and Platform Research Infrastructure
Speaker: Amanda Lawrence (RMIT & Australian Internet Observatory), “Citizen science, research infrastructure and Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs)” [Abstract]
Chair: Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National U)

10:00am – 11:15am: Session 3: Projects, Applications
Chair: TBC

Daniel Russo-Batterham, David Goodman (U Melbourne): “Building a Database of British Colonial Hansards: Early Work and Reflections” [Abstract]
Simon Burrows (Western Sydney U): “Open to Collaboration: From Shared Data to Shared Database” [Abstract]
Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan U): “Digital History Methods for Mapping Slavery” [Abstract]

11:15am – 11:45am: Morning Tea Break

11:45am – 1:00pm: Session 4: Tools, Techniques
Chair: TBC

Bill Pascoe (U Melbourne): “Public Web Scholarship: Institutions, Maintenance, and Truth Telling” [Abstract]
Ian McCrabb (Systemik Solutions): “Glycerine – Image Annotations Platform” [Abstract]
Alayne Moody (Flinders U): “Bayesian Statistics for Open Scholarship in the Humanities” [Abstract]
Graham Jensen, Brittany Amell, Ray Siemens (U Victoria): “An Academic Commons for Collaboration and Open Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences” [Abstract]

1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm – 3:30pm: Session 5: Approaches, Analysis
Chair: Leah Henrickson (U Queensland)

L. Nicol Cabe (Flinders U): “An Elevator to the Ivory Tower: Proposing a Collaborative Open Social Research Approach that Includes Creatives and the Public” [Abstract]
Ridvan Gencer (Western Sydney U): “Introducing High School Students to Digital Humanities with Open Scholarship” [Abstract]
Alyssa Arbuckle (Canadian Research Knowledge Network, INKE), Caroline Winter (U Victoria), Randa El Katib (UTSC), Graham Jensen (U Victoria), Ray Siemens (U Victoria): “The Open Scholarship Press, an INKE/CAPOS Research Intervention” [Abstract]
Brittany Amell, Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Ray Siemens (U Victoria): “Platforms–Agents, Foes, or Allies of Scholarly Communication?” [Abstract]
Lynne Siemens (U Victoria):“‘Year of Evolution’: Year 3 of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on Open Social Scholarship” [Abstract]

3:30pm – 3:45pm: Conference Closing

3:45pm – 4:00pm: Afternoon Tea Break

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Business Meeting for CAPOS Partners (by invitation)

Call for Papers

Digital communications and the research surrounding it are founded on notions of the Commons, platforms and emerging knowledge frameworks – grounded in the idea of the sharing and, significantly, governing of resources beyond the market and the state.

The resource boom in data and the generative Artificial Intelligence systems that are connected to it pose new challenges for digital research and the engaged publics that both use and knowingly or unknowingly contribute to such systems. How do we balance the innovation that is rewarded by our funding schemes and institutions with the maintenance imperatives that are needed by cultural data? What is the future of the public domain and the platforms, and international collaborations that are required to support it? What will “peak data” mean for the humanities, for digital citizens, for cultural materials, and beyond?

This symposium invites submissions for lightning talks to serve as provocations into the issues of open digital scholarship and its relationship to the future, as it seeks to highlight open social scholarship activities, infrastructure, research, dissemination, and policies. The INKE Partnership has described open social scholarship as creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad, interdisciplinary audience of specialists and non-specialists in ways that are both accessible and significant. We will together consider how to model open social scholarship practices and behaviour, as well as pursue the following guiding themes:

Community: How do we best foster humanities and social sciences research, development, community building, and engagement through online, omnipresent, and open community spaces?
Training: How can we adapt existing training opportunities and develop new opportunities in emerging areas to meet academic, partner, and public needs for open scholarship training?
Connection: How can humanities and social sciences researchers collaborate more closely with the general public? What are the best ways to bring the public into our work, as well as for bringing our work to the public?
Policy: How do we ensure that research on pressing open scholarship topics is accessible to a diverse public, including those who develop organizational or national policy?

We invite you to register for this event to join the conversation and mobilize collaboration in and around digital scholarship, with specific focus on:

open social scholarship now and in future
knowledge diversity, epistemic injustice, and knowledge equity
Interoperability and databases
GLAM collections as data
the lifecycles of digital projects
FAIR and CARE principles for data
multilingual digital scholarship
community building, engagement, and mobilization
collaboration and partnership for shared initiatives and activities
digital scholarly production
open access and open technologies
knowledge sharing and preservation
cultural data and cultural materials
alternative academic publishing practices
digital research infrastructure
social knowledge creation
stakeholder roles and activities
social media
public humanities
research data management
AI for humanistic pursuit
teaching (with) digital scholarship

We invite proposals for lightning papers that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area, as well as proposals for relevant project demonstrations. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words, plus list of works cited), and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters. n.b.: longer papers for lightning talks will be solicited after proposal acceptance for circulation in advance of the gathering.
Please send proposals on or before 18 October via the form at this link.

This action-oriented program is geared toward leaders and learners from all fields and arenas, including academic and non-academic researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, librarians and archivists, publishers, members of scholarly and professional associations and consortia, open source practitioners and developers, industry liaisons, community groups, and other stakeholders. Building on previous INKE-hosted events in Whistler and Victoria (2014-23), the 2019, 2022 and 2023 CAPOS conferences, and our combined, online INKE-CAPOS conferences (December 2020 & 2021), we hope to simultaneously formalize connections across fields and open up different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of digital scholarship.

Keynote speakers for the event include:

This event is sponsored by the INKE Partnership, CAPOS, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with support from The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), Australian Research Data Commons, AusStage, and Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts.

Please consider joining us for what is sure to be a dynamic discussion! Registration is free, via this link.

This program is organized by Tully Barnett, Tyne Daile Sumner, Rachel Hendery, and Ray Siemens, on behalf of our international Advisory Board and Group.

Advisory Board: Representatives from: Advanced Research Consortium, Analysis and Policy Observatory, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, Australian Research Data Commons, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Canadian Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada, Compute Canada / Calcul Canada, Council of Australian University Librarians, Deans of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, DH Downunder, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Edith Cowan U, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic), Érudit, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanities Data Lab (U Ottawa), Iter, J.E. Halliwell Associates, Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Open Access Australasia, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University Library, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Victoria Libraries, Western Sydney University Digital Humanities Research Group, and Voyant Tools, among others

Advisory Group: Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic), Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan U), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle), Constance Crompton (U Ottawa), Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa), Janet Halliwell (J.E. Halliwell Associates), Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney U), Tanja Niemann (Érudit), Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), Lynne Siemens (UVic), Ray Siemens (UVic), and Michael Sinatra (U Montréal).