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  1. Mar 2019
    1. Progress actions

      Progress actions. I won't help edit this.

    2. Previous employment for a commerical organisation

      Impossible to pretend to take this seriously when having worked for a vendor is an essential requirement but any credentials in Open are no kind of requirement at all.

    3. Strategy

      From the text that follows, strategy appears to be the operative word in the job title. But the competencies and requirements below don't really look like a match for what seems to be a PR job with some CI in it.

  2. Jan 2019
    1. scholarsworking within China are highly encouraged to publish in journals that are indexed by standardservices like theArtsandHumanitiesCitationIndex. This removes any incentive to provide dataand publish within digital humanities projects whose output is not part of a standard recognizedindex. Database projects are not well suited to indexing services, because the metadata used byan index to determine frequency of publication and to quantify the output of the project are diffi-cult to measure in a constantly active database. Despite this limitation we have begun to archiveindividual entries from the project within UBC Library’s Open Collections service so that we canestablish a record of published entries with DOIs. This anecdotal evidence suggests that what wemight assume is a natural pull towards digital humanities publications as an indication of new andexitingmethodologiesmightbeabsentincertainacademiccontextsaroundtheglobe. Thisislikelyto change rapidly and we should be ready for any potential interest in our project despite its lack ofbelonging to an index. At the same time our attempts to publish within an open platform and issueDOIs are also a potential way to approach an indexing service and provide them with a historicalrecord of regular publication and proof of editorial oversight. An added benefit of archiving andpublishing with the UBC Library system is that it also serves as a data preservation method for ourproject,allthePDFsarestoredonUBC’sOpenCollectionsserviceandareopen-accessdocumentsthat the library has committed to hosting for the long future.

      issues in uptake for non-traditional publishing in the Humanities; compensating values offered through library publishing & preservation platforms

    2. situated understandings of aboutness and local accountability.

      in national infrastructure this favoured approach can't be achieved without meaningful, ongoing participation of regions and communities.

    3. Understanding & Enacting OpenScholarship

      Updated package Jan 10

    1. Understanding & Enacting OpenScholarship

      early package, missing contents

    2. Altmetric.com

      Why Altmetric vs. ImpactStory? Description

    3. esults are very dependent on the use of similarity measures based on probabilistic algorithms and a reliance on external Web services. Nevertheless, our work aims to build on Bush’s vision bycreating tools to emphasize the connections between documents that can be treated as objects of study as well.

      If I understand properly, the project outcome differs from an embedded PlumPrint or Altmetric widget at the item level in the IR in that social media mentions are used algorithmically to re-rank search results from the IR.

    4. the development of more creative publishing tools and platforms all bode well for a future academic publishing system with interests shifted from prestige and profit for the few to access and relevance for the many

      To this end, important to distinguish 'freemium" and open-washing strategies of for-profit publishers from those projects that align with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and that may be truly transformative.

    5. as long as privilege, systemic bias, and harassment are acknowledged

      Engagement through social media should also consider implications of commercial ownership of commonly used social media platforms, including ownership and stewardship of contributed content, portability of contributed content, privacy, long term access/preservation...

    6. initiatives like the massive, online, community-produced encyclopedia Wikipedia. This state of interaction is a significant departure from previous assumptions about the university’s purported monopoly on knowledge creation.

      Worth noting that Wikipedia's role as social knowledge product is significant, but role in knowledge creation is constrained by the mandate to write encyclopedically. Wikipedia seeks to rely on authoritative published secondary sources, so depends on scholarship, and IME regards submissions that appear too "primary" as problematic. Wikipedia may disrupt the academic monopoly, but in particular ways, and is itself highly regulated.

    7. It is up to those working in academia to explore these prospective collaborations in a way that fairly reflects and encourages the active engagement of the many forces and figures involved in knowledge creation, dissemination, and sharing.

      The notion of accountability is also important in this discussion, in relation to community collaborators/partners/subjects in research, and to funders, who are often the broader tax-paying "us". Performing a public good may be better conceived as reciprocity than benevolence or noblesse oblige. Conceptualizing pubic engagement in terms of collaboration without reference to public good seems insensitive to the potential for extractive practice.

    8. Networked technologies have the potential to facilitate more engaging, democratic interaction and scholarship—but that does not mean that they automatically will.

      Yes, and networked technologies are not neutral to the content they carry. How the platform is made, controlled, offered, does influence what content, ideas may be welcome, find a place.

    9. etworked technologies

      particularly open networked technologies, or at least free

    10. Wikipedia edit-a-thon

      In relation to the funding discussion that follows, this event would have been a candidate for funding through the Wikipedia Art+Feminism project: Description

    11. GIS for research that relates to occupancy mapping and traditional land use in indigenous communities.

      Complex issues when it comes to publication. Consent is ongoing, a process. Implications of publication if consent is later withdrawn.

    12. In doing so, it encourages discussion across a number ofcommunities, around scholarly practices, the publishing ecosystem, and barriers to access

      Yes. Also promotes resourceful use of open or free tools to maximize and extend value of the licensed portal resources.

    13. If funding is no longer available tocontinue to offer OER grants to SFU faculty, what other strategies could be explored to supportand incentivize adoptions of open, affordable and accessible teaching and learning materials oncampus in future?

      The outcome of an "open" product might be considered among criteria for ANY internal grants and supported leaves - in other words, make the expectation mainstream or at least create the conditions to value this work in as a matter of regular business.

    14. introduction of an OA policy, the rate of deposit in the institutional repository (Summit)has more than doubled

      Interesting. Without benefit of OA policy, at mpow we had dramatic increase through targeted outreach and facilitation.

    15. potential barriers for authors

      IK/TK, proprietary or sensitive info, other?

    16. Sustainability of the journal is a concern, since the continuation of the journal is dependent on the course instructor choosing to run the project again in future courses. This is particularly true for Model 2, where setting up and designing the journal forms the foundation for the course, making it challenging to sustain the journal in future terms. T

      In some cases maybe potential to promote sustainability/continuity by bringing other faculty into the project. Possible to incentivize through release? This might result in a journal that is more program- or discipline- than course-based.

    17. Staffing for the institutional repositorywas also reviewed in order to support mediated deposit, ensuring that articles met requiredpublisher policies and managing any required fulltext embargos.

      Yes. Mediation essential to build uptake, but also to support standard metadata > reliable discovery, long term stewardship.

  3. Jan 2018
    1. “The Biology of the Honey Bee”

      Find in a library: <br> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717464242

    2. “ABC to XYZ of Beekeeping”,
    3. “The Hive and the Honeybee”
    4. “Beekeeping in Western Canada”
    5. “Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees”,
    6. Added annotations to link suggested books to information about library holdings in BC and beyond.

    7. “Honey Bee Diseases & Pests”,
    1. In this scenario, tagging is more about engagement than substantial contribution

      Possibly the mechanisms for gathering or receiving these contributions have not been available or accessible to underserved communities?

    2. Google Chrome

      i am happily using in firefox atm...

    3. We discovered in the pilot year that most Community Scholars’ participation in the program was fairly low.

      Consistent, I think, with experience of many alumni access programs.

    4. The main question is whether the library is ready to embrace the uncontrolled chaos of social knowledge creation.

      Does this need to be an either/or scenario?

    5. but socially-constructed metadata often lacks syntactic and semantic integrity.

      -- and is not "neutral" either.

    6. The library has to question the veracity of metadata submitted through open and social means: when this metadata combines with library-created metadata, does it result in unintended consequences such as misinformation and conflicting metadata”

      Could contend that the library also has a responsibility to acknowledge and contextualize perception, as a means of mitigating those potential unintended consequences.

    7. Systems need consistent data to work well

      Implicit in this consistency is the intellectual work of representing relationships among ideas as they are expressed in language, and how these evolve over time.

    8. Endogenous serious games

      hashtag:amreading Armada by Ernest Cline rn. Armada would be an example of an "endogenous serious game" in this classification.

    9. liveness

      When I see "liveness" I think about objects that recently had liveness and now are gone. What is the relationship of "liveness" with formal memory/preservation? https://xkcd.com/1909/

    10. questions of risk

      This surfaced in our study: "fear that once released into the digital wilds beyond the academy, their work might be misinterpreted or misused. One participant explained that this already had happened to him: an article on climate change was cited as proof of “intelligent” design. Others expressed feelings of frustration and uncertainty about how online data they create might be misused." Reed, Kathleen; McFarland, Dana; Croft Rosie. Laying the Groundwork for a New Library Service: Scholar-Practitioner & Graduate Student Attitudes Toward Altmetrics and the Curation of Online Profiles. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 2, p. 87-96, june 2016. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/B8J047.

    11. The way we want to rethink this is with storytelling

      The inferences of 'storytelling' include audience, relationship, "heart."

    12. How can multimedia scholarship reframe our work as storytelling for/with multiple audiences in the current information ecosystem?For us, "multimedia scholarship" stands in for a fairly complex set of terms and ideas. For one thing, we are thinking of scholarship both as research production and dissemination, but also as pedagogy and activism and a wide range of other kinds of work that are scholarly but not necessarily done by researchers all the time.

      why 'storytelling' vs 'communication'?

    13. Now that open practices are more widely accepted, and even heralded in some corners

      Important not to dismiss the considerable scepticism and partial understanding that still exist among colleagues. To quote from one recent conversation where my advice was sought (and perhaps found wanting): "[grant adjudicators] overlook slightly the open access criterion because of its dogmatism. I am slightly distrustful of total open access, because it tends to gut excellence."

    14. Instead of thinking of “lowbrow” or popular communication mechanisms as outside of the scholarly communication process, or else as a public record or starting point for an idea, what if we considered multiple versions of an argument as equally important and requiring of our sustained effort and attention?

      I'm getting the concept only now. "Versioning" has a well-established meaning in records management (version control), software versioning, with respect to understanding the provenance and relation to one another of successive iterations of what is essentially the same work. The subject here is quite different, having to do with intentionally creating varied representations of content for diverse purposes and audiences. I am warm to the idea, but struggling with the expression of it. Thoughts. Could it be "variations" rather than versions? As in music, where the form varies but the theme is constant. "Channels" like "packaging" also possible, although not the same nuance, and inference is marketing & distribution.

    15. To engage with the public, they argue, one must consider these communities at the inception of a research project, not as an afterthought or, worse, as mute subjects of examination.

      +1. Short leap from here to OA as social justice practice.

    16. At a glance

      "At a glance" - Phrase suggests that what follows may be a superficial take, subject to revision upon closer analysis. Based on what follows, I don't think that this is what's intended?

    17. often the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is the only solution for finding a lost policy.

      Could be a useful area for web archiving? CWAC?

    18. maintaining the dynamic, social features that Zotero affords. This is, again, low-hanging fruit.Are social media exchanges (that is, a sequence of messages over a time period) a dataset? Is a Storify rendering of a twitter exchange a dataset?

      Preservation/access implications over time? Storify is dead.

    19. ProQuest is a possible channel as well.

      -- not just ProQuest and Ebsco indexes, but pursue inclusion in the knowledge bases that serve their discovery services (Summon, EDS, Primo.

      Also, apply for inclusion in DOAJ: https://doaj.org/application/new

      Also, PKP 2017 documentation sprint developed advice for editors to aid in discovery and promotion.

    20. A more promising avenue for the journal is in the nurturing of new patterns of in-teractive reading, reviewing, and annotating articles using margin comments with a tool like Hypothes.is.

      oh look!

    21. ricky login procedure and the ad-­‐hoc search and discovery process (participants had to search publishers’ platforms one at a time) as significant barriers to usage.

      yes.

  4. Dec 2017
  5. Nov 2017
    1. Norms are not formally structured, and they are (usually) not written down and distributed widely. They tend to evolve naturally and are expected to simply be understood. They are also enforced informally through social relationships.

      Norms are not formally structured, and they are (usually) not written down and distributed widely. They tend to evolve naturally and are expected to simply be understood. They are also enforced informally through social relationships.

    1. credible authority

      Interesting to consider what constitutes "credible authority" in the organization and what may be the role of professional norms and identity in establishing this.

      Coordination Problems

      What are the coordination problems in your organization (the problems where there are multiple best outcomes but everyone must make the same choice)?
          Who decides which choice the people in your organization will make (which "side of the road" they will drive on)?
              Are these people seen as a credible authority in your organization?
              Are these people able to clearly communicate their decision to everyone in the organization?
      

      Co-operation Problems

      What are the co-operation problems in your organization (the problems where the best outcome for an individual is not the best outcome for the group)?
          Is your organization able to build trust that all members of the organization will not act opportunistically (e.g. trust that everyone will choose 2% instead of 6%)?
          Is it part of the norms and identity of your organization to act collectively instead of individually when facing co-operation problems?
          Who decides on the norms and identity in your organization?
              Are these people seen as a credible authority in your organization?
              Are these people able to clearly communicate their decision to everyone in the organization?
      
    1. goverance

      governance

    2. These kind of norms are bad for business.

      let's hope so

    3. They tend to evolve naturally and are expected to simply be understood.

      This could explain, partly, why so irritating when someone at work anonymously posted the sign: "Your mom doesn't live here" followed by a list of kitchen rules.

  6. Oct 2017