HSS Infrastructures for Open Knowledge and Data Science?
17 January, 8.30am-9.45am, Hotel Grand Pacific Center/West Vancouver Island Ballroom
Please join us for a discussion of core issues related to open knowledge and data science, in the context of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the infrastructures that serve them. Sponsored by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute, and the MATRIX Institute for Applied Data Science, presenters and discussants are leaders in the key fields that converge on these interests. The session will include opening statements and moderation from
- Susan Brown (Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship, U Guelph; President, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques), http://www.uoguelph.ca/~sbrown/
- Michael Sinatra (Director, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques, U Montreal; Director of Research Dissemination, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Fédération des Sciences Humaines), https://www.michaelsinatra.org/about/
- Robbin Tourangeau (Interim President and CEO, Compute Canada / Calcul Canada), https://www.computecanada.ca/about/governance/compute-canada-executive-team/
- David Wrisley (Co-director, Center on Digital Humanities and Computational Knowledge Intelligence (in development), NYU Abu Dhabi), https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/arts-and-humanities/faculty/david-wrisley.html
- John Maxwell (Director, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser U), https://publishing.sfu.ca/master-of-publishing/faculty/john-maxwell/
This panel is free and open to all, and is part of the annual INKE winter gathering, “Understanding and Enacting Open Scholarship” (details: https://inke.ca/projects/victoria-gathering-2019/; full conference registration: https://www.regonline.ca/INKE2019). If you are not already registered for the conference, please register for this event in particular at http://bit.ly/HSS-infrastructures Registration is free, and just lets us know how many people to expect.