The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) team recently organized the 7th annual gathering of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) with the theme “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’ on 2-3 December 2025 at the Australian National University in Canberra. During this event the ETCL team worked closely with scholars, policymakers, industry experts, and advocates facilitated discussion and reflection on how artificial intelligence is changing the open scholarship landscape for Canadian and Australian researchers and stakeholders.
Alongside esteemed featured talks by Tyne Daile Sumner (Australian National University), who discussed how AI art can do a creative critique of open data, and Michael Sinatra (University of Montreal), who outlined several research areas where open social scholarship and AI intersect, the event hosted three plenary panels. These panels examined how processes of knowledge production have changed in the age of AI, including the integration of AI into digital humanities project workflows and the challenges posed by AI.
The ETCL team also had the opportunity to share their research. Alan Colin-Arce presented on the importance of community governance and multilingualism for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons. In her recorded presentation, Engaging with Platforms and Open Scholarship, Britt Amell provided an overview of the Platforms research scan developed by ETCL members. In his recorded presentation, Taking Bearings: Open Social Scholarship meets AI, Faraz Forghan Parast described the ETCL team’s current work on a research scan exploring AI and open social scholarship.
A special thank-you to our Australian partners and local hosts—especially Tully Barnett (University of South Australia) and Craig Bellamy (La Trobe University). Our team also appreciated the chance to steal a brief moment to take in some of Canberra’s sights.
(from left to right) Michael Sinatra, Ray Siemens, Lynne Siemens, and Alan Colin
For the full program, abstracts, and more, check out: https://inke.ca/re-defining-open-social-scholarship-in-an-age-of-generative-intelligence/
We’re very excited for our next CAPOS/INKE Gathering in late November/early December 2026 – keep an eye out for updates!