Putting Open Social Scholarship Into Practice

An Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership & Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) Online Event
December 8-9 2021 North America time / December 9-10 2021 Australasia time
#OSSpractice

Registration: https://uvic.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6xcxZAPKTqqakJojXmseMg

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. Please note that registration will generate a unique zoom link so if your friends or colleagues would like to attend they should register for access!

Live events will take place synchronously at the following times:

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

Pre-recorded lightning talks will be available from November 29 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 October 14 2021, and is subject to change. All events will occur online, and registrants will receive details on how to connect from December 1 on.

Day 1: December 8 CAN / December 9 AUS

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

2.15pm-3.10pm PST / 5.15pm-6.10pm EST / 9.15am-10.10am AEDT: Featured Panel

Priorities in Open Scholarship: Researchers; Chair: Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

  1. Tully Barnett (Flinders U), “The Page and its Digital Facsimiles: Using Creative Workshops to Explore the Conceptual Architecture of Digital Textual Infrastructure” [Abstract]
  2. Susan Brown (U Guelph), “Linking Research(ers) In: Building Infrastructure for Open Scholarship” [Abstract]
  3. Constance Crompton (U Ottawa), “Priorities in Open Scholarship: Build the Chain” [Abstract]
  4. Inba Kehoe (UVic),”Open Scholarship and its impact on Higher Education” [Abstract]
  5. Amanda Lawrence (RMIT), “Multisector Research Publishing in a Multicentric Policymaking Ecosystem” [Abstract]
  6. Deb Verhoeven (U Alberta), “Scholarship in a Clopen World” [Abstract]

3.10pm-3.15pm PST / 6.10pm-6.15pm EST / 10.10am-10.15am AEDT: Break

3.15pm-3.55pm PST / 6.15pm-6.55pm EST / 10.15am-10.55am AEDT: Lightning Talks

Lightning talk cluster #1, Open Scholarship Community Concerns; Facilitator: Kim Martin (U Guelph)

  1. John Maxwell (Simon Fraser U), “The Care-ful Reviewer: Peer Review as if People Mattered” [Abstract] [Recording]
  2. Graham Jensen (UVic) and Talya Jesperson (UVic), “New Pastures: Expanding the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons” [Abstract] [Recording]
  3. Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan U), Nikos Koutras (Edith Cowan U), and Lydia Hearn (Edith Cowan U), “Open Digital Scholarship for Creative Industries: A Review through the Lens of Copyright Governance” [Abstract] [Recording]
  4. Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), “Open Social Pedagogy: Modelling Foundational OSS Values in the University Classroom” [Abstract] [Recording]

Lightning talk cluster #2, Open Social Scholarship on the Ground; Facilitator: Constance Crompton (U Ottawa)

  1. Tyne Daile Sumner (U Melbourne), “The Australian Cultural Data Engine: Putting Cultural Data to Work” [Abstract] [Recording]
  2. Magnus Pfeffer (Stuttgart Media U), Zoltan Kacsuk (Stuttgart Media U), Simone Schroff (U Plymouth), and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan U) “Harmonizing Open Licenses among Online Databases of Enthusiast Communities: Challenges Encountered in the Legal Integration of Databases in the Japanese Visual Media Graph Project” [Abstract] [Recording]
  3. Kelsey Dufresne (North Carolina State U) and Micah Vandegrift (North Carolina State U), “The Digital, the Multimodal, & the Fermentable: Public Knowledge Sharing with Fermentology” [Abstract] [Recording]

3.55pm-4pm PST / 6.55pm-7pm EST / 10.55am-11am AEDT: Closing by John Maxwell (Simon Fraser U)

Day 2: December 9 CAN / December 10 AUS

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

2.15pm-3.10pm PST / 5.15pm-6.10pm EST / 9.15am-10.10am AEDT: Featured Panel

Priorities in Open Scholarship: Partners; Chair: Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U)

  1. Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), “Partnership in Action: CRKN’s Approach to Strategic Partnership in Digitized Documentary Heritage” [Abstract]
  2. Jonathan Bengtson (UVic), “Five Years Makes All the Difference: Towards a Canadian National Heritage Digitization Strategy” [Abstract]
  3. Ian Duncan (Australian Research Data Commons), “Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice: What Does that Actually Mean for Researchers?” [Abstract]
  4. Susan Haigh (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), “Toward Open Scholarship: Did COVID Accelerate the Transition?” [Abstract]
  5. Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), “Strategies for Open Scholarship” [Abstract]
  6. Tanja Niemann (Érudit), “The Coalition Publica” [Abstract]

3.10pm-3.15pm PST / 6.10pm-6.15pm EST / 10.10am-10.15am AEDT: Break

3.15pm-3.55pm PST / 6.15pm-6.55pm EST / 10.15am-10.55am AEDT: Lightning Talks

Lightning talk cluster #3, Open Social Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Facilitator: Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan)

  1. Rosalind Smith (Australian National U) and Mitchell Whitelaw (Australian National U), “Reimagining (and Redesigning) the First Line Index: The Early Modern Women’s Complaint Index” [Abstract] [Recording]
  2. Craig Harkema (U Saskatchewan), Kyle Dase (U Saskatchewan), and Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan), “Gaining Perspective: Data Visualization as Prototyping of the Social Network of Early Modern Collectors of Curiosities” [Abstract] [Recording]
  3. Anke Finger (U Connecticut) and Virginia Kuhn (U Southern California), “Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities” [Abstract] [Recording]
  4. Luis Meneses (Vancouver Island U), “Maintaining Open Digital Scholarship Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities” [Abstract] [Recording]

Lightning talk cluster #4, Opening Up Scholarship; Facilitator: Lynne Siemens (UVic)

  1. Graham Jensen (UVic), “Designing Digital Commons to Support Open Social Scholarship” [Abstract] [Recording]
  2. Joanne Carey (U British Columbia Okanagan), Donna Langille (U British Columbia Okanagan), Madelaine Lekei (U British Columbia Okanagan), Fiona McDonald (U British Columbia Okanagan), “The Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) Press” [Abstract] [Recording]
  3. Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic), Randa El Khatib (U Toronto Scarborough), Graham Jensen (UVic), and Caroline Winter (UVic), with Ray Siemens (UVic), “Surveying the Open Social Scholarship Critical Landscape: Connection, Training, Community, Policy” [Abstract] [Recording]

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

Call for Proposals: Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice
December 8-9 2021 Canadian timezones / December 9-10 2021 Australian timezones
Online

Proposals Due: 7 October 2021 via bit.ly/OSSPractice

The last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic have shone a light on the critical importance of open access to research and data. Commenting on this situation in a December 2020 article for The Conversation, Ginny Barbour argues that “making it the default that research is open so it can be built on is a crucial step to ensure we can address […] problems collaboratively.” But, vital as such a call is, perhaps it is not quite as easy as simply deciding to make open the default in research, or in scholarship more broadly. As Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray write in the introduction to their recent collection Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (2020), open access can be “intensely messy.” Further, they suggest, “Open access is perceived through a set of contested institutional histories, argued over various theoretical terrains in the present, and imagined via diverse potentialities for the future.” Open social scholarship shares a similarly complex layering of histories, theories, and possibilities. This becomes more true as open social scholarship grows and evolves across disciplinary and geographic divides.

Within this complex terrain of urgent calls for open access and convoluted histories and contexts of open social scholarship, how do we put theory and values into action? To consider this issue, we are organizing Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice. Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice is an online event that draws together the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, and is open to all who are interested in the past, present, and future of open social scholarship. This combined event will represent the 3rd annual CAPOS conference and the 9th INKE Partnership winter gathering. We are planning for a virtual event in order to remain flexible in light of potential ongoing travel and meeting restrictions, and to provide broader flexibility for those who might not be able to attend in-person.

Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice 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 Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice 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 sharing and preservation
  • alternative academic publishing practices
  • epistemic injustice
  • infrastructure
  • social knowledge creation
  • stakeholder roles and activities
  • collaboration
  • open technologies and skills
  • social media
  • public humanities
  • knowledge equity

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. Longer papers for lightning talks will be solicited after proposal acceptance for circulation in advance of the gathering. Please send proposals on or before October 7 via bit.ly/OSSPractice.

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 (2014-20), the 2019 CAPOS conference, and our combined, online INKE-CAPOS conference (December 2020), we hope to simultaneously formalize connections across fields and open up different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of digital scholarship.

Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice events include:

  • Featured panel: Priorities in Open Scholarship: Researchers, chaired by Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
  • Featured panel: Priorities in Open Scholarship: Partners in Research, chaired by Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U)
  • Lightning talks, where authors present 4-5 minute versions of longer papers or reports circulated prior to the gathering, followed by a brief discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application-oriented, and more)
  • Next Steps conversation, to articulate in a structured setting what we will do together in the future

Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice is sponsored by the INKE Partnership, CAPOS, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Please consider joining us for what is sure to be a dynamic discussion!

This program is organized by Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, John Maxwell, 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).