This past November 2023, members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) team travelled to Sydney, AU to host “Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Australasia,” an Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership and Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Social Scholarship (CAPOS) gathering aligned with Australia’s Congress for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS). At this two-day event, we were honoured to be able to facilitate vital discussions about how to create digital scholarship that is more open, more fair, and more social through lightning talks, plenary panels, and more.
Gabriel Miller sharing his talk “Scholarly Books in the Digital Age: A Canadian Perspective”
Some highlights included esteemed Featured Talks by Gabriel Miller (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Roxanne Missingham (Australian National University), and Tanja Niemann (Érudit) and a roundtable hosted by the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH).
Our team was also able to share our research and development of the HSS Commons in context with our international research partners and make connections across to the ARDC’s HASS and Indigenous Data Commons, which was recently awarded $25 million in funding from the Australian Government, and other Australasian digital research infrastructure partners and colleagues. In addition to offering a more pragmatically oriented workshop on how research commons such as the HSS Commons can be used to build community, develop and publish research, and create collaborative groups and projects, we were also enthused to be able to discuss our related research into digital knowledge commons of this kind as part of the many stimulating conversations about open social scholarship that emerged over the course of the week.
A special thanks to all of our Australian partners and local hosts, especially Rachel Hendry (Western Sydney University), Tully Barnett (Flinders University, aaDH), Tyne Sumner (University of Melbourne, aaDH), Dan Woodman (CHASS) and Sally Daly (CHASS). And our own team was grateful to be able to sneak away for a moment to take in some of the Sydney sights!
(from left to right) Tanja Niemann, Kyle Dase, Adar Charlton, Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Lynne Siemens, and Ray Siemens
For the full program, abstracts, and more, check out: https://inke.ca/creative-approaches-to-open-social-scholarship-australasia/
We’re very excited for our next CAPOS/INKE Gathering at DH Downunder in late November/early December 2024 – keep an eye out for updates!