2023 Open Scholarship Awards

Jan 17, 2023 | Announcements | 0 comments

Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners

For 2023, 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 (2023), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Awards:
    • Suzanne W. Churchill (Davidson C), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), and Susan Rosenbaum (University of Georgia, Athens), Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
    • Andrea Korda (U Alberta), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (U Victoria), and Vanessa Warne (U Manitoba), Crafting Communities
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Avan Fata (London School of Economics and Political Science), Daniel Howlett (George Mason University), Fraser Raeburn (University of Sheffield), James Currie (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jennifer Borgioli Binis (Schoolmarm Advisors), Jeremy Salkeld (University of Oxford), Lisa Baer-Tsarfati (University of Guelph), P.H. Jones (Independent), Roel Konijnendijk (University of Oxford / University of Edinburgh), Ruairi McGowan-Smith (Independent), Ryan Abt (Houston Community College), Sarah Gilbert (Cornell University), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Stephanie Carlson (University of St Andrews), Thomas Lobitz (Independent), Travis Warlow (Independent), Viktoria Porter (Independent), Ask Historians
    • Xóchitl Flores-Marcial (California State U, Northridge), Moisés García Guzmán (Pueblo of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca), Felipe H. Lopez (Seton Hall U), George Aaron Broadwell (U Florida), Alejandra Dubcovsky (U California Riverside), May Helena Plumb (U Texas-Austin), Mike Zarafonetis (Haverford C), and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (Haverford C), Caseidyneën Saën
    • Kelly McCormick (U British Columbia), Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2023), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Awards:
    • Émilie Pagé-Perron (Wolfson C – U Oxford), contribution to Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
    • Frédérick Madore (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Islam Burkina Faso Collection
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Elena Foulis (Texas A&M U – San Antonio) and Stacey Alex (Morningside C), Idioma Comunidad
    • Doris Wesley and Manushri Pandya (North Caroline State U), Existing & Evolving Aspects of Mobility in the Global South
    • Josefine Ziebell (City U New York), Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition

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), Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Graham Jensen (U Victoria), Karen Nicholson (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), Ray Siemens (U Victoria), and Caroline Winter (U Victoria) for their involvement in the 2023 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 Federation, 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
Suzanne W. Churchill (Davidson C), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), and Susan Rosenbaum (University of Georgia, Athens), 2023 Open Scholarship Award Winner
Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
mina-loy.com

Artist, poet, feminist, entrepreneur, and inventor, Mina Loy consorted with Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, yet was wedded to none. Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde charts Loy’s avant-garde migrations through digital scholarly narratives and visualizations that contextualize and interpret her writing, visual art, and designs. This born-digital, scholarly book is an open educational resource created by students, staff, and faculty at Davidson College, Duquesne University, and the University of Georgia, and peer-reviewed by an advisory board of modernist scholars and digital humanists from across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Andrea Korda (U Alberta), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (U Victoria), and Vanessa Warne (U Manitoba), 2023 Open Scholarship Award Winner
Crafting Communities
www.craftingcommunities.net

Prompted by COVID-19 restrictions on in-person gatherings in the Summer of 2020, Crafting Communities began as a series of virtual events that invited specialists and non-specialists to engage with 19th-century material culture in a variety of ways. To document and disseminate the knowledge generated by these events, the Crafting Communities team created an online exhibition (Victorian Things), a podcast (Victorian Samplings), and a series of hands-on crafting tutorials, all of which are openly accessible on the project website (CC BY 4.0). Through this website, the Crafting Communities project has transitioned from an event series into an open educational resource that makes connections between its various resources, showing, for example, how engaging with a tutorial on hair art can be enhanced by a particular podcast episode and exhibition text. In this way, Crafting Communities provides robust and accessible resources for multimodal teaching and learning, bringing together hands-on making with reading, listening, and looking.

Émilie Pagé-Perron (Wolfson C – U Oxford), 2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Winner
Contribution to Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is driven by the mission to enable the collection, preservation, and accessibility of information— image files, textual annotation, and metadata—concerning all ancient Near Eastern artifacts inscribed with the ancient cuneiform script. With over 362,000 artifacts in our catalogue, we house information about approximately two-thirds of all sources from cuneiform collections around the world. Our data are publicly available at https://cdli.ucla.edu (new version: https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/), and our audience comprises primarily scholars, students, museum staff, and informal learners. Scientists and scholars are actively developing CDLI infrastructure and enriching our dataset. As part of these endeavors, we are building a natural language processing platform to empower specialists of ancient languages to undertake the analysis and translation of Sumerian language texts, thus enabling data-driven study of the languages, culture, history, economy and politics of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. In this platform we are focusing on data normalization using Linked Open Data to foster best practices in data exchange, standardization and integration with other projects in digital humanities and computational philology.

Frédérick Madore (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), 2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Winner
Islam Burkina Faso Collection
islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/s/bf

Launched in November 2021 by Frédérick Madore, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection is an open access digital database containing over 2900 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various forms, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso since the 1960s. The bilingual site (English-French) also indexes 253 bibliographical references on the topic. This is the first major thematic digital collection project undertaken by a new University of Florida Libraries program, LibraryPress@UF. The database was created with Omeka S, an open-source web publishing platform. In addition to the metadata attribution, optical character recognition with manual post-correction has been applied to each document to index the full text. Two thematic digital exhibits, which bring together a selection of items from the database, serves as entry points to the collection. An index, listing about 1000 events, locations, organizations, people, and topics, is also available. The database follows the principles of Linked Open Data by publishing structured and interoperable machine-readable data on the semantic web. Wikidata Q identifiers were used as URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) when possible, for named entities.

Avan Fata (London School of Economics and Political Science), Daniel Howlett (George Mason U), Fraser Raeburn (U Sheffield), James Currie (Royal Holloway, U London), Jennifer Borgioli Binis (Schoolmarm Advisors), Jeremy Salkeld (U Oxford), Lisa Baer-Tsarfati (U Guelph), P.H. Jones (Independent), Roel Konijnendijk (U Oxford / U Edinburgh), Ruairi McGowan-Smith (Independent), Ryan Abt (Houston Community C), Sarah Gilbert (Cornell U), Simon Lam (U Oxford), Stephanie Carlson (U St Andrews), Thomas Lobitz (Independent), Travis Warlow (Independent), Viktoria Porter (Independent), 2023 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Ask Historians
askhistorians.com; reddit.com/r/AskHistorians

AskHistorians is a digital public history forum where the public asks questions and where historians provide answers. Situated on the popular social media site Reddit, AskHistorians brings in over 1.5 million monthly visitors from around the world. As a result, AskHistorians is one of the largest public history fora on the internet. Its moderators provide a curated space for the public to interact with professional and grassroots historians, and the hundreds of historian panelists who contribute to AskHistorians have diverse backgrounds (educational backgrounds, age, gender, etc.) and areas of expertise. What is most important at AskHistorians, however, is our experts’ ability to provide in-depth and comprehensive answers in a civil, engaging, and easily digestible manner. AskHistorians’ objective is to make good, scholarly history accessible to as wide a public as possible. It is, therefore, completely open-access and free to use.

Xóchitl Flores-Marcial (California State U, Northridge), Moisés García Guzmán (Pueblo of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca), Felipe H. Lopez (Seton Hall U), George Aaron Broadwell (U Florida), Alejandra Dubcovsky (U California Riverside), May Helena Plumb (U Texas-Austin), Mike Zarafonetis (Haverford C), and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (Haverford C), Caseidyneën Saën, 2023 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Caseidyneën Saën
ticha.haverford.edu/en/lessons

Caseidyneën Saën is a volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on an archival corpus of Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. It is the product of an ongoing collaboration between Zapotec and non-Native scholars as well as Zapotec community members. The work demonstrates an innovative use of archival material in teaching while working within a framework of open access to research and teaching materials.

Kelly McCormick (U British Columbia), 2023 Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography
behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca

Behind the Camera is an open-source website that creates new critical directions on the history of photography, feminist art history, and the history of modern Japan. Part database, part teaching module, the website’s primary resource is a series of short lecture videos created by experts in the field, each re-examining an aspect of the history of photography from a feminist lens. The videos are a part of exploration modules that include translated primary source materials, annotated bibliographies, and high-resolution images that make research opportunities available to a wider audience. These resources are linked to an interactive timeline that charts the activities and accomplishments of women photographers alongside major events in Japanese and photo history. The result of five years of collaborative information gathering from libraries around the world, these resources bring together disparate information on women and photography in Japan, so that scholars and students can use it to draw connections and produce new scholarship on this important, understudied subject.

Elena Foulis (Texas A&M U – San Antonio) and Stacey Alex (Morningside C), 2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Idioma Comunidad
ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/idiomacomunidad

With a steadily increasing number of Latinx students across colleges and universities in the Midwest, the need to develop language courses and materials to address the needs of heritage learners (HL) in our classrooms is vital for language maintenance. This Open-educational textbook is the first-of-its-kind that represents a significant contribution to the field of heritage languages. We created materials that harness the abilities that HL bring with them and target the skills they have yet to develop, which are different from second language learners. Furthermore, it reflects HL students’ unique experience in the Midwest and their language community, by developing materials that are centered on students’ environments. We incorporated original and readily available online sources that include language use, arts, festivals, food, ethnography, digital lives, and the university, centered on the Latinx Midwest experience. This OER draws upon a theoretical framework informed by the concepts of community cultural wealth and Latino cultural citizenship and incorporates a Project-Based pedagogical approach.

Doris Wesley and Manushri Pandya (North Caroline State U), 2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Existing & Evolving Aspects of Mobility in the Global South
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e324eb2b29745dda15e702e2f90e19a

There have been discourses and representations of individuals whose mobilities were affected by Covid-19. However, missing from these studies is the focus on how Covid-19 affected the mobility of displaced populations like internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrant workers in the Global South. Furthermore, no visualization hub has been created to represent and communicate the mobility of these populations. To this end, Existing & Evolving Aspects of Mobility in the Global South explores the evolving aspects of the mobilities of displaced populations in the East African region and migrant workers in India. Through a comparative analysis of the mobilities of displaced populations, we examine the visual and textual content published between March 2020 (when Covid-19 was declared a pandemic) and July 2020 (when several mobilities occurred). This project features an interactive map embedded into StoryMaps, enabling us to visualize how the crisis impacted the mobility of these displaced people. Our visualization hub depicts how the crisis had similar and/or different socio-political and cultural implications on mobilities (urban, forced, and restricted mobilities) in the Global South. Our project also highlights the ways that (a) these vulnerable populations navigate mobility, (b) have access to cities and resources, and (c) how their representations and practices are shaped/performed or disrupted in a “politics of mobility” (Cresswell, 2010). This digital project will contribute a rich data set and framework to understand how mobilities in East Africa and India can become stigmatized, especially during a crisis.

Josefine Ziebell (City U New York), 2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award Honourable Mention
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/queer-and-trans-prison-voices

Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition advances the use of sound in anti-prison activism and scholarship, and builds on my research that positions prison writing as a primary form of expressing the experience of incarceration. My project emphasizes resistance from inside the prison as central to my scholarship, in part through the creation of a sonic archive of prison writings. By integrating that sonic archive into the podcast medium, my project adds to, and acts as, a digital archive for incarcerated voices. As such, the project has two tracks: a collection of spoken readings by queer and transgender prisoners, and podcast-style interviews with activist scholars, organizations and sound artists working towards prison abolition. The podcast medium acts as a dialogic mode of research dissemination, effectively making the prison abolitionist work and scholarship in the episodes accessible to the public, and opening the sonic archive to a broader audience.