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From: Luis Meneses <Luis.Meneses@viu.ca>
Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Reminder – CFP: Open Digital Collaborative Project
Preservation in the Humanities 2024
To: institute@lists.uvic.ca <institute@lists.uvic.ca>

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Open Digital
Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities conference, a
DHSI-aligned event that will take place on Wednesday, June 12 – 2023, week
2 of DHSI.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2024

Further details below and at this link:

https://dhsi.org/aligned-events-2024/#OpenDigitalCollab

Open digital collaborative scholarship in the Arts and Humanities is
significant for facilitating public access to and engagement with research,
and as a mechanism of growing the digital scholarly infrastructure. But the
path to adopting open, collaborative, digital scholarship has been
challenging, not least of all due to questions of economic stability,
infrastructure, access, understanding, implementation, and engagement.

The advent of online technologies has provided Arts and Humanities
researchers with greater opportunities to collaborate and create different
projects. These projects are computationally robust and require a
significant amount of collaboration, which brings together different types
of expertise to collaborate on equal terms rather than a model where some
sets of expertise are in service to others.

The convenience and familiarity of computational methods can make us
forget (or overlook) that there is a certain fragility associated with our
online tools. Kathleen Fitzpatrick has argued that many online projects in
the digital humanities have an implied planned obsolesce—which means that
they will degrade over time once they cease to receive updates in their
content and software libraries (Planned Obsolescence, NYU Press, 2011).
In turn, this planned obsolescence threatens the completeness and the
sustainability of our research outputs in the Arts and Humanities over
time, presenting a complex problem made more complex when environments are
not static objects but rather dynamic collaborative spaces.

This virtual conference aims to address the following research questions:

– How can we create viable, sustainable pathways for open, digital
scholarship?

– How can we design, implement, and document the best practices for the
development of open, social, digital projects in the Arts and Humanities?

– How can we amplify the positive aspects of collaboration to magnify the
contribution and streamline the development of digital projects?

– How can we preserve these environments in ways that speak to the needs of
our communities, and are open, collaborative, effective, and sustainable?

Submissions should be sent via email to luis.meneses@viu.ca and are due by
February 1, 2024. They should include the title of the submission, the
name(s) and affiliation(s) of contributor(s), and a 300-word abstract.

*Luis Meneses*
Professor and Advisor

Department of Computer Science
*Vancouver Island University*
Ph: 250-753-3245, Ext. 2363
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———- Forwarded message ———
From: Luis Meneses <Luis.Meneses@viu.ca>
Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Reminder – CFP: Open Digital Collaborative Project
Preservation in the Humanities 2024
To: institute@lists.uvic.ca <institute@lists.uvic.ca>

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Open Digital
Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities conference, a
DHSI-aligned event that will take place on Wednesday, June 12 – 2023, week
2 of DHSI.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2024

Further details below and at this link:

https://dhsi.org/aligned-events-2024/#OpenDigitalCollab

Open digital collaborative scholarship in the Arts and Humanities is
significant for facilitating public access to and engagement with research,
and as a mechanism of growing the digital scholarly infrastructure. But the
path to adopting open, collaborative, digital scholarship has been
challenging, not least of all due to questions of economic stability,
infrastructure, access, understanding, implementation, and engagement.

The advent of online technologies has provided Arts and Humanities
researchers with greater opportunities to collaborate and create different
projects. These projects are computationally robust and require a
significant amount of collaboration, which brings together different types
of expertise to collaborate on equal terms rather than a model where some
sets of expertise are in service to others.

The convenience and familiarity of computational methods can make us
forget (or overlook) that there is a certain fragility associated with our
online tools. Kathleen Fitzpatrick has argued that many online projects in
the digital humanities have an implied planned obsolesce—which means that
they will degrade over time once they cease to receive updates in their
content and software libraries (Planned Obsolescence, NYU Press, 2011).
In turn, this planned obsolescence threatens the completeness and the
sustainability of our research outputs in the Arts and Humanities over
time, presenting a complex problem made more complex when environments are
not static objects but rather dynamic collaborative spaces.

This virtual conference aims to address the following research questions:

– How can we create viable, sustainable pathways for open, digital
scholarship?

– How can we design, implement, and document the best practices for the
development of open, social, digital projects in the Arts and Humanities?

– How can we amplify the positive aspects of collaboration to magnify the
contribution and streamline the development of digital projects?

– How can we preserve these environments in ways that speak to the needs of
our communities, and are open, collaborative, effective, and sustainable?

Submissions should be sent via email to luis.meneses@viu.ca and are due by
February 1, 2024. They should include the title of the submission, the
name(s) and affiliation(s) of contributor(s), and a 300-word abstract.

*Luis Meneses*
Professor and Advisor

Department of Computer Science
*Vancouver Island University*
Ph: 250-753-3245, Ext. 2363
_______________________________________________
Institute mailing list
Institute@lists.uvic.ca
Unsubscribe via https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/institute