Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’

2-3 December 2025
Australian National University, in association with DHA2025
Roland Wilson Building, Room 1.02
Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS)
7th annual gathering
Registration, before November 15: (free, but necessary) via this link

Program

Tuesday 2 December

8:30am – 8:45am: Registration

8:45am – 9:00am: Acknowledgement of Country, Welcome to Event, Tully Barnett (U South Australia), Ray Siemens (U Victoria); 2025 Open Scholarship Award, Nick Thieberger and the PARADISEC team, “Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)”

9:00am – 10:00am: Opening Keynote: Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National U), “Creative Critique: Art, Open Scholarship & Generative AI”
Chair: Michael Sinatra (U Montreal)

10:00am – 11:00am: Plenary Panel
Chair: Ray Siemens (U Victoria)

  • Frank Bongiorno (Australian National U; CHASS), “Creativity, Imagination and the Humanities in the Age of AI”
  • Kylie Brass (Australian Academy of the Humanities), “Making Humanities AI Visible”
  • Tom Foley (Australian National U; CAUL), “University Libraries and the Age of Generative AI Discovery: Literacy, Scholarly Identity, and Open Access Futures”
  • Chris Hay (Flinders U; AusStage), “Mind the Gaps: AI-powered Analysis of Large Datasets”

11:00am – 11:30am: Morning Tea Break

11:30am – 12:30am: Presentations
Chair: Amanda Lawrence (RMIT)

  • Roxanne Missingham (Australian National U), “AI and Creative Commons: Implications for Open Access in Australia and Canada” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Leah Henrickson (U Queensland), “A Pilot Study Exploring Data Donation as Research Method and Pedagogical Tool” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Jiadai Xia (Western Sydney U), “Cognitive Engagement with GenAI Tools while Developing Higher Degree by Research” [Shorter talk (~5 mins)]
  • Brittany Amell, Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership (U Victoria), “Engaging Platforms in Open Scholarship” [Independent viewing via this link: https://doi.org/10.25547/WWBG-XN58]

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch (provided)

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Presentations
Chair: Rachel Hendery (Service NSW)

  • Melroy Almeida and Sarah Thomas (Australian Access Federation), “Persistent Identifiers at the Heart of Open Scholarship in an Algorithmic AI-Driven World” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Michael Falk (U Melbourne), “Wikilambda the Ultimate: Wikipedia’s Utopian Platform for Open Collaboration” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Brittany Amell, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership (U Victoria), “Humanities and Social Sciences Commons: Community over Commercialization” [Shorter talk (~5 mins)]
  • Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan U), “Recharting Human Pasts: Digital Representations of Slavery” [Shorter talk (~5 mins)]
  • Faraz Forghan Parast, Brittany Amell, Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Tim Sobie, Thomas Sherriff, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership (U Victoria), “Taking Bearings: Open Social Scholarship meets AI” [Independent viewing; link forthcoming]

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Afternoon Tea Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Plenary Panel
Chair: Leah Henrickson (U Queensland)

  • Amanda Lawrence (RMIT; Australian Internet Observatory), “Internet Governance, Public Interest Platofmrs and the Wikimedia Model”
  • Janet Catterall (OA Australasia), “AI’s Dual Role in the Open Ecosystem”
  • Ian McCrabb (Systemik Solutions), “AI Integration – Workflow Patterns”
  • Michael Falk (U Melbourne; DH Downunder), “Open Source / Open Weights / Open Data: What Would it Take for AI To Be Open?”

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Presentations
Chair: Roxanne Missingham (Australian National U)

  • Nick Thieberger (U Melbourne), “The Written and the Recorded: AI in the workflow from analogue materials to textual corpora” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (U New England), “Visualising 75,000 Convict Lives” [Longer talk (~15 mins)]
  • Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Brittany Amell, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership (U Victoria), “Multilingual Community Building on the Humanities and Social Sciences Commons” [Shorter talk (~5 mins)]
  • Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), “Grant Infrastructure as Collaboration Framework: Ongoing Collaboration in an Open Social Scholarship Project” [Shorter talk (~5 mins)]

Wednesday 3 December

9:00am – 10:00am: Plenary Panel
Chair: Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National U)

  • Maggie Nolan (U Queensland; AustLit), “Bibliography in the Age of AI”
  • Tully Barnett (U South Australia, ACHF), “Getting on the Same Page for Cultural Data”
  • Samantha Bennett (Australian National U: DASSH), “AI and Higher Degree Research”
  • Nichola Burton (ARDC, HASS and Indigenous RDC), “Providing Digital Research Infrastructure in an AI Landscape”

10:00am – 11:00am: Closing Keynote, Event Closing: Michael Sinatra (U Montreal), “Navigating Digital Frontiers: Open Scholarship, AI, and the Future of Digital Humanities Research”
Chair: Tully Barnett (U South Australia)

11:15am – 12:00pm: Business Meeting for CAPOS Partners, following Morning Tea Break (by invitation)

Call for papers

Invitation for longer presentations (15-20 mins) and lightning talks (5-10 mins)

The seventh annual conference of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) will coincide with the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) 2025 conference running between 2-5 December. Both conferences will take place at the Australian National University on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people in Australia’s national capital Canberra.

This conference aims to mobilize knowledge, research, and professional experience around the benefits and challenges of developing and maintaining open scholarship in the current age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital platforms, as well as how best to coordinate open scholarship policies in ways that connect with related activities across Canada, Australia, and global partners. It also continues our tradition of celebrating and reflecting on the important, ongoing work of the open scholarship community.

Open scholarship emphasizes the social nature of knowledge, along with community-driven initiatives, outreach, and partnerships that aim to close gaps between academic theory, research, and communities beyond academic specialists. Even though many researchers now have unprecedented opportunities to share and collaborate with each other and the public, much scholarship still remains inaccessible to wider audiences. In contrast to this reality, open scholarship asserts that research publications, datasets, educational resources, and other output should be accessible to all.

Rapid advancements in AI, coupled with the expansion of open access research and digital infrastructures, are transforming open social research, public discourse, and creative practice. These shifts—spanning environmental, communal, social, creative, epistemic, and economic structures—demand urgent critical inquiry into the future of knowledge itself. Along with other disciplines, creative practice—itself a form of knowledge production in the academy and the wider world—is experiencing these shifts acutely. Moreover, the ‘data deluge’ in all disciplines presents both new possibilities and pressing challenges for digital researchers and engaged publics alike. Yet, while these issues are widely acknowledged across various fields, too often discussions remain siloed.

Together, we will consider how best to model open social scholarship practices, as well as pursue the following general themes:

  • Community: How can we 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?
  • Art making: How do we ensure the rights of artists are balanced with community needs for access? How do we support the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector with knowledge, policy development and collaborations to withstand challenges to openness.

We invite you to join in conversations and share collaborative work in digital scholarship around the following questions, and other topics pertinent to our community beyond:

  • How can open social scholarship, with its focus on community, openness, and engagement, provide more generous frameworks for understanding and shaping the shifts brought about by an increasingly algorithmic culture(s)?
  • What opportunities and challenges do AI-driven systems present for the knowledge commons, public platforms, and scholarly engagement?
  • What is the place of creative works and artistic practice within an evolving knowledge commons?
  • How do we balance innovation with stewardship, maintenance, and preservation imperatives that are needed by cultural data?
  • What is the future of the public domain and the platforms and collaborations required to sustain it?
  • If AI relies on published works for its learning, how might we ensure reciprocal relationships are in place for those creating these works? And how might these relations be protected from exploitation?
  • How do we avoid the risks of algorithmic monoculture and the homogenization of cultural formats and outputs?

We invite you to submit abstracts for longer presentations (15-20 mins) and lightning talks (5-10 mins) on these themes and beyond.

Submission and Registration

Submissions: before 2 September 2025 via this link

Notification: Following peer review of submissions, corresponding authors or project leads will be notified in September.

Registration, before November 15: (free, but necessary) via this link

About

Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’ is a 2-day event organized by the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership. The gathering will take place at the Australian National University, in Canberra Australia (2-3 December 2025).

The gathering will include featured speakers, CAPOS partner / plenary panels, paper sessions, and more. Further details will be published on the INKE/CAPOS events page, at https://inke.ca/re-defining-open-social-scholarship-in-an-age-of-generative-intelligence/.

Featured speakers incude:

  • Michael E. Sinatra (Professor of Digital Humanities and English, Université de Montréal)
  • Tyne Daile Sumner (ARC DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities, Australian National University)

Note: For the aaDH DHA2025 allied events on 2-5 December, please see the CFP for “Digital Archipelagos”. Submissions for the DHA conference are due Friday 6th June 11.55pm (AoE) and should be submitted separately (see here and here for more information).

Abstracts are welcome for both events. As is typical of CAPOS gatherings, it is anticipated that proceedings will be published following the event.

Who Should Attend

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
  • galleries and museums professionals
  • artists
  • publishers
  • members of scholarly and professional associations and consortia
  • open source practitioners and developers
  • industry liaisons
  • community groups
  • other stakeholders.

Learn More

Learn more about the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship: https://inke.ca/canadian-australian-partnership-for-open-scholarship/

Learn more about the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/

Learn more about the Digital Humanities Australasia 2025 conference: https://dha25.org/

Do you have questions about this event? Contact information for INKE can be found here: https://inke.ca/contact/.