On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers
<phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
For the formal conference sessions , we are interested in any and all
topics related to:
* Open access publishing and institutional repositories
* Sustainability, scalability, and assessment of open access
* Open educational resources and open access applications in the
classroom
* Massive open online courses (MOOCs) - copyright issues,
assessment, challenges
* Outreach, promotion, and overcoming resistance to open initiatives
We will consider proposals for individual presentations and panels
organized around a theme.
This sounds interesting - thanks for raising it, Phoebe.
My normal material - open licensing - seems like it would be a bit
offtopic, so I won't submit something by myself. But if anyone is
considering a panel where an open licensing perspective would be useful as
part of a broader/more interesting theme, please contact me - I'd be happy
to help out.
Luis
I don't think it's off-topic at all, considering that all of this
openness
has to be built on open licensing :) But, I think the audience will likely
be familiar with but not hugely knowledgeable about open licenses & issues,
so a survey or similar would probably be good.
The problem with that sort of thing is that the basic survey is often boring
- like you say, many people will be familiar with it. Specific questions are
interesting, but it is hard for me to know what exactly will be of interest
beforehand. That's part of why I suggest a panel- I'd be happy to field
questions, and those could be quite interesting, but don't have a
good/interesting/informative spiel that would stand on its own.
I know from the university perspective lots of faculty (and librarians)
have a lot of questions about what open license mandates from the government
or in university repositories mean about the rights to their work, concerns
about commercial use, etc.
For mandates, particularly around OER, someone from CC or PLOS is likely to
be more useful than I am- it just isn't (yet :) my area of specialty. (Which
is the other reason I'm a little reluctant to jump in directly.)
I note that I would be really surprised if people from CC aren't
planning to participate, but this is the first I've seen of the
conference so far--I should coordinate with people to figure out who
is going. (Tim, are you on this list?) But it might be fun to do a
legal session with a bunch of lawyers in different aspects of the
field (OK, my idea of "fun" may be broken).
FWIW, there is a "copyright help" expo booth at ALA every year--if you
recall Lucy's psychiatric help booth from the Peanuts comics, meant to
be rather like that--where people come up throughout with their
questions, staffed by the more copyright-knowledgeable members. It's
not, strictly speaking, *popular*, but probably useful. I could see a
session on copyright, OER, and institutional repositories--perhaps one
where people submit questions beforehand, giving presenters time to 1)
select the most popular and 2) prepare...
-Kat
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