FSCI 2022

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0:00 - 0:30: announcements, logistics, and orientation
0:30 - 1:35: presentation by our keynote speaker, Nathan Woods, followed by questions

Designing New Collaborative Horizons in Scholarly Communications
How do we design new ways to engage with and enhance the collaborative impact of scholarship now? The field of scholarly communications is increasingly framed by its potential to shape the social impact of scholarship. We find, for example, the centrality of scholarly communication in efforts to curb the parallel ‘infodemic’ or information disorder that has accompanied the multiple and ongoing Covid-19 health emergencies. We also find it in the centrality of research dissemination and use with regard to the cascading crisis of climate change, and the slow emergency of preserving cultural memory under conditions of rapid ecological change. In this talk, I explore the organization of scholarly communications as a field of collaboration and the tensions and possibilities this poses for addressing or enhancing social impact. The scholarly communications ecosystem is organized through interprofessional collaborations across multiple forms of expertise, as well as increasingly intensive collaborative engagement with social and cultural stakeholders. Towards new horizons of collaborative design, I highlight several models for organizing collaboration in scholarly communications, and some recent examples of initiatives that mobilize collaborative change processes.

Nathan D. Woods is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of research and practice on issues related to the creation, use, and stewardship of science, scholarship and cultural memory. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Lethbridge conducting a collaborative study on research infrastructures in the humanities and cultural heritage information ecosystems. Working with multiple communities of practice, his larger research agenda considers the complex and dynamic relationships between knowledge, the design of institutions, and the organization of expert work. Ongoing projects explore the changing organization of scholarship; the science-policy interface; and the democratization of knowledge production. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center; an MSLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and an interdisciplinary BA in the history and philosophy of science from the Evergreen State College. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.

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This session will explore the FORCE11 working groups, exploring the goals, outputs, and impact of key FORCE11 working groups of the past and present. We hope to show you the value of forming your own FORCE11 working group to tackle the latest wicked problem!

The session will feature the work of the following groups, presented by the working group member listed below:

• Software Citation Implementation - Neil Chue Hong
• Researcher Bill of Rights - Catherine Nancarrow / Nate Jacobs
• Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) - Dan O'Donnell
• Research Data Publication Ethics - Iratxe Puebla

There will be time set aside for questions and discussion by all attendees.  Don't miss this informative event!

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) and the Future of Archivable Scholarly Communication

On March 1st, days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Anna Kijas, Quinn Dombrowski, and Sebastian Majstorovic co-founded Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO.org) to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage websites. Since then, the project has brought together over 1,300 volunteers -- largely from North America and Western Europe -- and has captured more than 50 TB of data from over 4,500 websites. This talk from two of the co-founders (Dombrowski and Majstorovic) will cover opportunities and challenges that the project has faced over the past five months, focusing in particular on common web-based tools and platforms (including website event calendars, DSpace, and open-access journal interfaces) that have helped and hindered SUCHO's work. The issues surfaced by SUCHO have implications for the future of sustainable, archivable scholarly communications, in the context of war and beyond.

In addition to their work on SUCHO, Quinn Dombrowski is an Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University, and Sebastian Majstorovic is an IT Consultant for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The closing session will be filled with announcements, acknowledgements, and goodbyes.  There will be a chance for attendees to contribute to the discussion.  We will collectively pull together threads from the courses, the plenaries, and the community events, and begin to sum up what we’ve learned from each other and to lay out pathways to stay connected.