Engaging Open Social Scholarship

An Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership & Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) Online Event 
December 8-10 2020 North America time / December 9-11 2020 Australasia time

#EngagingOSS

Registration: http://bit.ly/EngagingOSSreg

Registration for this online event is required. We are grateful to the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, the INKE Partnership, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the U Newcastle Centre for 21st Century Humanities for facilitating free registration for all.

Live events will take place synchronously at the following times:

  • Canadian timezones: December 8-10, 2pm-4pm PST (Vancouver) / 3pm-5pm MST (Edmonton) / 4pm-6pm CST (Saskatoon) / 5pm-7pm EST (Toronto) / 6pm-8pm AST (Halifax)
  • Australasian timezones: December 9-11, 6am-8am AWST (Perth) / 9am-11am AEDT (Sydney) / 11am-1pm NZDT (Auckland)

Pre-recorded lightning talks will be available from December 1 on for viewing.

For community guidelines, please see our Statement of Ethics and Inclusion, collaboratively developed by the Digital Humanities Summer Institute community.

Program

n.b. Program is current as of December 7 2020, and is subject to change. All events will occur online, and registrants will receive details on how to connect from December 1 on.

Pre-recorded lightning talks are available to registrants here: inke.ca/engaging-open-social-scholarship/lightning-talks/

December 8 CAN / December 9 AUS

(2pm-4pm PST / 5pm-7pm EST / 9am-11am AEDT / 11am-1pm NZDT)

2pm-2.15pm PST / 5pm-5.15pm EST / 9am-9.15am AEDT: Welcome by Ray Siemens (UVic), Catharine Coleborne (U Newcastle), Julie McIntyre (U Newcastle), and Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney U); Pragmatics by Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

2.15pm-3pm PST / 5.15pm-6pm EST / 9.15am-10am AEDT: Featured speaker & discussion

1. Roxanne Missingham (Australian National U Library), “Unleash the Beast – Time to Bring On Boudica – A Revolution Through Theses”

    • Chair: Constance Crompton (U Ottawa); Technical assistant: Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

3pm-3.05pm PST / 6pm-6.05pm EST / 10am-10.05am AEDT: Break

3.05pm-3.50pm PST / 6.05pm-6.50pm EST / 10.05am-10.50am AEDT: Featured speaker & discussion

2. Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), “Supporting the Transition to Open Access: How to Move Forward, Together”

    • Chair: Julie McIntyre (U Newcastle); Technical assistant: Randa El Khatib (UVic)

3.50pm-4pm PST / 6.50pm-7pm EST / 10.50am-11am AEDT: Closing by Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan)

December 9 CAN / December 10 AUS

(2pm-4pm PST / 5pm-7pm EST / 9am-11am AEDT / 11am-1pm NZDT)

2pm-2.15pm PST / 5pm-5.15pm EST / 9am-9.15am AEDT: Welcome by Ray Siemens (UVic) and Tully Barnett (Flinders U); Pragmatics by Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

2.15pm-3pm PST / 5.15pm-6pm EST / 9.15am-10am AEDT: Featured speaker & discussion

3. Kylie Brass (Australian Academy of the Humanities), “Humanities in a Time of Crisis”

    • Chair: Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U); Technical assistant: Caroline Winter (UVic)

3pm-3.05pm PST / 6pm-6.05pm EST / 10am-10.05am AEDT: Break

3.05pm-3.50pm PST / 6.05pm-6.50pm EST / 10.05am-10.50am AEDT: Featured speaker & discussion

4. Tanja Niemann (Érudit), “Changing the Game with Coalition Publica”

    • Chair: Lisa Goddard (UVic); Technical assistant: Jannaya Friggstad Jensen (UVic)

3.50pm-4pm PST / 6.50pm-7pm EST / 10.50am-11am AEDT: Closing by Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

December 10 CAN / December 11 AUS

(2pm-4pm PST / 5pm-7pm EST / 9am-11am AEDT / 11am-1pm NZDT)

2pm-2.05pm PST / 5pm-5.05pm EST / 9am-9.05am AEDT: Welcome & pragmatics by Ray Siemens (UVic)

2.05pm-2.20pm PST / 5.05pm-5.20pm EST / 9.05am-9.20am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #1 discussion — Examining Open Scholarship 

Facilitator: Jon Saklofske (Acadia U); Technical assistant: Caroline Winter (UVic)

  • Barakat, Nora (Stanford U), and David Joseph Wrisley (New York U Abu Dhabi), “When Does it Become Open?” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Lawrence, Amanda (RMIT U), “Bibliodiversity and the Evidence Ecosystem: Looking Beyond the Formal Publishing System” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Martin, Shawn (Dartmouth C), “Political Economy and Diplomatics of Open Social Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Arthur, Paul (Edith Cowan U), and Lydia Hearn (Edith Cowan U), “Open Social Scholarship: How Different is it to Open Science?” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Maxwell, John W. (Simon Fraser U), and Ellen Michelle (U Toronto) “Are We Really Open, Social, Scholarly? Some Preliminary Findings” [Abstract] [Recording]

2.20pm-2.35pm PST / 5.20pm-5.35pm EST / 9.20am-9.35am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #2 discussion —Open Social Scholarship Tools & Techniques 

Facilitator: Kim Martin (U Guelph); Technical assistant: Jannaya Friggstad Jensen (UVic)

  • Harris, Katherine D.(San Jose State U), Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward’s U), and Matthew K. Gold (City U New York), “Making Digital Pedagogy Count with Open Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Wake Hyde, Zoe (Rebus Foundation), “How Can an Open Research Workflow Tool Help to Foster Open Social Practices?” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Arbuckle, Alyssa (UVic), and Ray Siemens (UVic), “The Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons as an Open Social Scholarship Tool” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Rockwell, Geoffrey (U Alberta), Andrew MacDonald (McGill U), and Kaylin Land (McGill U), “Social Analytics Through Spyral” [Abstract] [Paper]
  • El Khatib, Randa (UVic) and Ray Siemens (UVic), “Early Modern Digital Review: Peer Reviewing Digital Projects that Study the Early Modern World” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Smith, Rosalind (Australian National U), “New Bibliographical Tools: The Index in the Digital Age” [Abstract] [Recording]

2.35pm-2.50pm PST / 5.35pm-5.50pm EST / 9.35am-9.50am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #3 discussion — Collaboration and Open Publishing

Facilitator: Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic); Technical assistant: Talya Jesperson (UVic)

  • Gatti, Rupert (Open Book Publishers; Trinity C), and Alessandra Tosi (Open Book Publishers; Cambridge U), “Open Scholarship: The Perspective of a Scholar-led Press” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Turin, Mark (U British Columbia), “The World Oral Literature Series: Innovations in Ethical and Multimedia Open Humanities Publishing” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Warman, Caroline  (Oxford U), “More Autonomy and More Collaboration: The Perspective of a Humanities Scholar” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • El Khatib, Randa (UVic), William R. Bowen (U Toronto Scarborough), and Ray Siemens (UVic),”Platform Governance: Identifying and Implementing Shared Goals of Iter Gateway” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Sinatra, Michael (U Montréal) and Marcello Vitali-Rosati (U Montréal), “Exploring the Use of ‘Parcours numériques’ for Scholarly Editions” [Abstract] [Recording]

2.50pm-2.55pm PST / 5.50pm-5.55pm EST / 9.50am-9.55am AEDT: Break

2.55pm-3.10pm PST / 5.55pm-6.10pm EST / 9.55am-10.10am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #4 discussion — Research Infrastructure at Scale: Standards & Initiatives 

Facilitator: Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney U); Technical assistant: Randa El Khatib (UVic)

  • Brown, Susan (U Guelph), and Kim Martin (U Guelph), “Linking Research(ers) In: Building Infrastructure for Open Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Kingsley, Danny (Australian National U) “A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Goddard, Lisa (UVic), “Persistent Identifiers for FAIR Open Social Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Moon, Jeff (Canadian Association of Research Libraries Portage Network), “Canada’s Portage Network – The Foundational Role of Community Engagement in the Evolution of Research Data Management in Canada” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Appavoo, Clare (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), “Advancing CRKN’s Multi-pronged Strategy for Access to Knowledge” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Wilson, Lee (Canadian Association of Research Libraries Portage Network), “Canada’s Federated Research Data Repository – From Prototype to Production” [Abstract] [Recording]

3.10pm-3.25pm PST / 6.10pm-6.25pm EST / 10.10am-10.25am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #5 discussion — Public Engagement and Collaboration 

Facilitator: Lynne Siemens (UVic); Technical assistant: Caroline Winter (UVic)

  • Barnett, Tully (Flinders U), “Community Digitisation as Open Social Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Tiedje, Michelle (Independent), “An Opening for Reconciliation?: Bringing History Home in the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Nelson, Brent (University of Saskatchewan), Kyle Dase (University of Saskatchewan), and Greg Kneidel (University of Connecticut), “The Social Network of Early Modern Literary Miscellanies” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Starry, Rachel (U California, Riverside) and Krystal Boehlert (U California, Riverside), “Building Virtual Community through Digital Scholarship Meetups” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Meneses, Luis (UVic), Ray Siemens (UVic), and William R. Bowen (U Toronto Scarborough), “Digital Online Projects: What are the Positive Aspects of Collaboration?” [Abstract] [Recording]

3.25pm-3.40pm PST / 6.25pm-6.40pm EST / 10.25am-10.40am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #6 discussion — Creative Approaches to Open Scholarship

Facilitator: Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan); Technical assistant: Talya Jesperson (UVic)

  • Crompton, Constance (U Ottawa), “Priorities in Open Scholarship: Build the Chain” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Shuttleworth, Kate (Simon Fraser U), and Kevin Stranack (Public Knowledge Project), “Not a University Press: Publishing the Weird, Wonderful, and One of a Kind Books in Academic Libraries” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Saklofske, Jon (Acadia U), “A Tale of Two Minecrafts: Using Digital Game Experiences to Understand the Value(s) of Open Social Scholarship and to Inspire Alternative Academic Practices” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Estill, Laura (St. Francis Xavier U), “Don’t Just Show Your Sources, Share Them: Teaching Digital Primary Sources about Shakespeare” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Johnson, Ian (U Sydney), “Overcoming Knowledge Friction in Digital Humanities Applications: Can We Defeat the Square Wheel?” [Abstract] [Recording]

3.40pm-3.55pm PST / 6.40pm-6.55pm EST / 10.40am-10.55am AEDT: Lightning talk cluster #7 discussion — Working With/in Academic Institutions 

Facilitator: Tully Barnett (Flinders U); Technical assistant: Jannaya Friggstad Jensen (UVic)

  • Tindall, Alexis (U Adelaide), “Keep the Plates Spinning: Furthering Digital Innovation at the University of Adelaide One Step at a Time” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Siemens, Lynne (UVic), “University – Industry Partnerships: Looking Ahead to Success” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Winter, Caroline (UVic), Randa El Khatib (UVic), Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic), and Ray Siemens (UVic), “Reimagining the Open Knowledge Practicum for a Virtual Environment” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Kim, Hoyeol (Texas A&M U), “Pursuing Computational Humanities Research as a Graduate Student in the Humanities” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Adamson, Chris (U South Dakota), “Faculty Development as Public Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  • Battersby, Lupin (Simon Fraser U), Moore, Alison (Simon Fraser U), Crooks, Valorie (Simon Fraser U), “Growing a Culture of Knowledge Mobilization at a Canadian University” [Abstract] [Recording]

3.55pm-4pm PST / 6.55pm-7pm EST / 10.55am-11am AEDT: Closing by Ray Siemens (UVic) and Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

Full list of lightning talks

Call For Proposals: Engaging Open Social Scholarship

Proposals Due: 9 October 2020 via bit.ly/EngagingOSS

Over the past decade, open scholarship has become a key component of our increasingly networked world. Open scholarship encompasses open access to research, open datasets of academic and government material, and open educational resources. Proponents for open scholarship assert that in order to reach its full potential research output needs to be widely accessible to many different communities, instead of locked behind paywalls or in unfindable or incomprehensible formats. This idea is gaining prominence in local, national, and international contexts as public calls for accountability grow and library budgets shrink in the face of mounting costs for access to research.

Engaging Open Social Scholarship brings together members of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership and the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS), and welcomes participation from beyond these groups as well. This 3-day, part-time event will take place online, from December 8-10 2020 North America time / December 9-11 2020 Australasia time. Engaging Open Social Scholarship 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. At Engaging Open Social Scholarship we will 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 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:

  • community building and mobilization
  • shared initiatives and activities
  • digital scholarly production
  • (open) access
  • partnership
  • knowledge dissemination
  • alternative academic publishing practices
  • infrastructure
  • shifting from prototype to production
  • social knowledge creation
  • stakeholder roles and activities
  • collaboration
  • open technologies and skills
  • social media
  • public humanities

We invite proposals for pre-recorded, 5 minute lightning talks 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. Pre-recorded videos of  lightning talks will be solicited after proposal acceptance for posting  in advance of the gathering. Note that if you would like to submit an abstract or paper for pre-circulation among conference registrants we can facilitate that, but it is not required to do so. Please send proposals on or before October 9th via https://bit.ly/EngagingOSS. 

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, Canada (2014-20) and the 2019 CAPOS conference in Newcastle, Australia, we hope to simultaneously formalize connections across fields and open up different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of digital scholarship.

Engaging Open Social Scholarship events include:

  • Featured talks by Kylie Brass (Australian Academy of the Humanities), Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Roxanne Missingham (Australian National U Library), and Tanja Niemann (Érudit)
  • Pre-recorded lightning talks, where authors present on relevant topics for 5 minutes (video recordings of talks are hosted online for review by fellow attendees); “live” discussion periods will be held during the conference proper

Engaging Open Social Scholarship is sponsored by the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Please consider joining us online for what is sure to be a dynamic discussion!

This program is organized by Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, Jon Bath, Rachel Hendery, and Tully Barnett, on behalf of our international Advisory Board and Group.

Advisory Board

Representatives from: Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), Analysis and Policy Observatory, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, Australian Research Data Commons, Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ), Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC), Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (CISP), Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR), Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) / Le collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada (CSÉC), Centre for 21st Century Humanities (Newcastle U), Compute Canada / Calcul Canada, Council of Australian University Librarians, Deans of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, DH Downunder, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), 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, Knowledge Unlatched Research, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University Library, 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).