Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners

For 2022, we are pleased to be able to award 2 Open Scholarship Awards and 2 Emerging Open Scholarship Awards, as well as a number of honourable mentions in each category.

Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

• Awards:
  • Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) Team (Washington State U), The NEXT
  • Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, U London), Open Library of Humanities
• Honourable Mentions:
  • Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edwards U), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), and Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
  • Sridhar Gutam (ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research), Open Access India
  • Mary Chapman, Jean Lee Cole, Joey Takeda, and Sydney Lines (U British Columbia), The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

• Awards:
  • Davis McKenzie (Toxw oxw [Becoming Clear] Communications), contribution to As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
  • Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta, and Muskaan Pal (FLAME U), The Indian Community Cookbook Project
• Honourable Mentions:
  • Yohanna Joseph Waliya (U Calabar) and Alexander Boyd (U Central Florida), Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database
  • Ceyda Elgul, Fatih Asan, Eyup Tugay Bahar, Belemir Topcuoglu, Aynur Erzenoglu (Boğaziçi U), Lives in Turkish
  • Sylvia Fernández-Quintanilla (U Kansas), Huellas Incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints

Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly.

Nature of the Awards

Award recipients demonstrate exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. These awards are intended to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship, nominated via an open process. In addition to the recognition of accomplishment that comes with such acknowledgement, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute will also offer one tuition scholarship for each recipient to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org) when we are next able to come together in person.

The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute would like to thank Alyssa Arbuckle (ETCL, U Victoria), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Constance Crompton (U Ottawa), Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Tanja Niemann (Érudit), Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), and Ray Siemens (U Victoria) for their involvement in the 2022 awards.

About the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute

The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) actively engages issues related to open social scholarship: creating and disseminating research and research technologies in ways that are accessible and significant to a broad audience that includes specialists and active non-specialists.C-SKI’s activities include awareness raising, knowledge mobilization, training, public engagement, scholarly communication, and pertinent research and development on local, national, and international levels.

C-SKI is located in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons. Originated in 2015, it is also the coordinating body for the work of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI).

C-SKI’s partners, through INKE, include: Advanced Research Consortium, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Compute Canada, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, Digital Humanities Research Group at Western Sydney U, Edith Cowan U, Érudit, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance, J.E. Halliwell Associates, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser U Library, U Victoria Libraries, and Voyant Tools, among others.

Project Descriptions

Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) Team (Washington State U), 2022 Open Scholarship Award Winner

The NEXT

https://the-next.eliterature.org

Hypertext novels. Twine stories. Kinetic poetry. Interactive Fiction. Generative literature. Historical recordings of electronic literature performances, interviews, and readings. Artists’ and scholars’ papers and essays. These are just some of the archives found among the over 30 collections of 3000 works of born-digital literary art and other forms of media at the Electronic Literature Organization’s The NEXT. Envisioned as a combination museum, library, and preservation space, The NEXT maintains and makes its archives accessible for the next generation and responds to the growing need for open-access, travel-free cultural and research experiences for today’s public and scholars.

Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, U London), 2022 Open Scholarship Award Winner

Open Library of Humanities

https://www.openlibhums.org

The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, open-access publisher of open-access journals in the humanities, co-founded and run by Martin Paul Eve for the past eight years. Using an innovative library-funding mechanism to avoid article processing charges, the platform has become a beacon for alternative business models around the world, influencing, for example, PLOS in its recent decision to attempt a similar model.

Davis McKenzie (Toxw oxw [Becoming Clear] Communications), 2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Winner

As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder http://publications.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remember-it/index

Raised by her grandparents on their ancestral territory on the Sunshine Coast, Elsie Paul of the Tla’amin Nation spent most of her childhood surrounded by the teachings, ways, and stories of her people. As her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism, she drew strength and guidance from the teachings she had learned. In As I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms tɑʔɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder, a web-based, multimedia, interactive book, Paul and her co-authors share this traditional knowledge with a new generation in an engaging style and innovative format that comprises everything from archival video to illustrated animations of significant events to language tutorials and a curriculum guide. Culturally relevant and community approved, As I Remember It facilitates in-depth engagement with Indigenous storytelling, history, and culture and engages a broad audience of readers inside and outside the Tla’amin Nation.

Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta, and Muskaan Pal (FLAME U), 2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Winners

The Indian Community Cookbook Project

https://communitycookbooks.wixsite.com/website

The Indian Community Cookbook Project developed as a digital archive combining digitised multilingual, regionally specific community cookbooks and oral histories of community food memories. The archive operates as an acknowledgement of and exploration into the role communities play in creating and keeping India’s food memories alive. The open access digital archive makes use of Knight Lab’s timeline tool to map the evolution of culinary cookbook histories on a community/regional basis. Additionally, it uses arcGIS’s spatial mapping software to detail the region-wise distribution of cookbook publication post-1990s industrialization. It corroborates collected handwritten, printed and oral family recipes as part of the Archives section to account for cuisines not represented in print format. The project’s open-access nature provides members from diverse Indian communities the space to freely contribute their traditional food knowledge for others to learn from and also as a repository of oral histories of food via video submissions and uploads. The project is a digitally inclusive archive of community food memories that would otherwise have been lost and forgotten.

Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edwards U), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), and Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), 2022 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention

Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities

https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/introduction/

“Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities” introduces Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, an edited collection published online by the Modern Language Association in 2020. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, with 4 general co-editors and 84 curators/authors, contains 59 keywords, each accompanied by 10 annotated pedagogical artifacts and additional readings/resources. These 590 artifacts don’t just define the teaching of literature through digital tools and platforms, they also present the stuff of teaching and learning: syllabi, assignments, rubrics, and resources, and more. This peer-reviewed, open-access publication is available for free to anyone interested in the teaching and learning of a variety of topics, theories, and concepts related to the teaching of literature.

Sridhar Gutam (ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research), 2022 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention

Open Access India

http://openaccessindia.org

Open Access India is a community of practice advocating Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education in India. It was founded with the aim of creating awareness among graduate students, early career researchers, professors, research managers, and policymakers on opening up access to publicly-funded research in India.

Mary Chapman, Jean Lee Cole, Joey Takeda, and Sydney Lines (U British Columbia), 2022 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention

The Winnifred Eaton Archive

https://winnifredeatonarchive.org/index.html

The Winnifred Eaton Archive is a research and teaching tool that offers over 200 works by Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve (1875-1954). Winnifred Eaton was a popular early Asian North American author, journalist, screenwriter and playwright whose best known works were published under the pen-name Onoto Watanna, a controversial persona that she assumed for over two decades. She was also the sister of Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far). Drawing on the resources of libraries and special collections from around the world, this digital archive provides freely accessible scans and fully searchable transcriptions of much of Winnifred Eaton’s collected oeuvre. The project’s goal is to provide a more complete picture of this complex and problematic figure. The archive will expand as Eaton’s known oeuvre expands. It also houses supplemental materials: photographs, reviews, illustrations, a biography, a bibliography, and unpublished manuscripts.

Yohanna Joseph Waliya (U Calabar) and Alexander Boyd (U Central Florida), 2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention

Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database

https://africanelit.org

AELA &ADELI’s projects seek to bring all African electronic literary works into a single Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD) in order to make them available for readers, accessible to researchers, and to preserve them for posterity. The MAELD & ADELD two-in-one database is open to all genres of electronic literature such as immersive storytelling/poetry, digital poetry/fiction, hyperfictions, platform-based writing, interactive storytelling, video games, netprov, digital comics, children e-lit, blogs, fanfic, generative text, VR/AR, and other forms of experimental digital writing. The database currently contains over 340 records featuring works by over 120 artists, in dozens of languages across 33 African countries (and beyond).

Ceyda Elgul, Fatih Asan, Eyup Tugay Bahar, Belemir Topcuoglu, Aynur Erzenoglu (Boğaziçi U), 2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention

Lives in Turkish

www.livesinturkish.com

Lives in Turkish is an online database of biography in Turkish. The digital humanities project traces the journey of life-writing in Turkish and collects metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects presented to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. As the scope includes publications that came out before and after 1928 Turkish Language Reform, the database embraces not only Turkish-language works published in Latin Alphabet, but also those published in Ottoman and Armenian script. Lives in Turkish includes biographies translated into Turkish and original products written by local life-writers. Besides including the initial examples of modern biography in Turkish, it presents traditional examples of local genres of Ottoman-Turkish life-writing, such as tezkire, menakıbname, siyer, tercüme-i hal. In addition, its scope comprises intralingual translations of Ottoman-script biographies into modern Turkish. In doing so, it aims to illuminate the role of these intralingual translations in the survival of the traditional examples of Turkish life-writing following the Turkish Alphabet Reform.

Sylvia Fernández-Quintanilla (U Kansas), 2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention Huellas Incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints

https://idrh.ku.edu/digital-humanities-projects/huellas-incomodas-uncomfortable-footprints

Huellas Incómodas is a public and digital initiative that documents, preserves and contextualizes the ephemerality of activists’ public space demonstrations and interventions in feminist social movements. This feminist communal digital repository of collective memory is based on local feminist movements in the Americas. Since 2020, the project team focused on the first case of the student-feminist movement of the Universidad Autonóma del Estado de México (UAEMex) in Toluca, México, which began in December 2019, and has continued to the present. The open access and pedagogy repository holds images submitted by students, activists and community-members that participated in the movement. Each image has its respective metadata to contextualize the significance of the pints and other expressions of protest from the activist perspective. Similarly, it includes a bibliometric analysis of various keywords that are related to the field of study, a bibliography, and a series of visualizations.