A presentation from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Research Data Management for Digitally Curious Humanists, by Caroline Winter, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Ray Siemens.

A presentation from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Conference & Colloquium, by Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, Talya Jesperson, and Ray Siemens. 

A presentation from the 2021 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH) conference, by Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Luis Meneses, Ray Siemens, and Caroline Winter. (Downloads: paper | slides)

A recorded lightning talk for Engaging Open Social Scholarship (2020), by Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle.

(Abstract and video password: #EngagingOSS)

A recorded panel discussion from the Digital Humanities 2020 conference, co-chaired by Ray Siemens (UVic) and Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic) and featuring Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University), Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Susan Haigh (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), and Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa).

Abstract

This paper introduces the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons, an open online space where Canadian HSS researchers and stakeholders can gather to share information and resources, make connections, and build community. Situated at the intersection of the fields of digital scholarship, open access, digital humanities, and social knowledge creation, the Canadian HSS Commons is being developed as part of a research program investigating how a not-for-profit, community-partnership research commons could benefit the HSS community in Canada. This paper considers an intellectual foundation for conceptualizing the commons, its potential benefits, and its role in the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem; it explores how the Canadian HSS Commons’ open, community-based platform complements existing research infrastructure serving the Canadian HSS research community.

The journey of our relationship with the Digital Commons has fundamentally changed and continues to shape the way we consider support and partnership for national cloud-based research projects in the Compute Canada Federation. Whether they be in or outside Humanities and Social Sciences. We will share these changes and the way that we are committing to support the Digital Commons and its launch. We will also discuss the context of a substantial transition period and time of change at the Compute Canada Federation, and how through that, we intend to support the Digital Commons and other projects like it in the future.

As we work to transform higher education, making our institutions more inclusive, more just, and more generous in their relationships with constituencies both on- and off-campus, we must also consider the roles that our ways of working with our communities of practice play in such transformation. This talk will explore the need for a scholarly communications infrastructure that is open-source, open-access, not-for-profit, and radically interoperable in order to facilitate the kinds of collaboration that can allow research and publishing to serve our highest goals and to function in accordance with our highest values.