Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks

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

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).