San Jose State University Library is hosting an open access conference in October (but proposals are due August 1 for the formal portion of the conference). Could be of interest to local Wikipedians and other fans of all things open... it would be great for our community to submit some proposals, as library events rarely feature people who are deeply involved in and really understand open projects, open licensing, etc.
-- phoebe
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Reminder - Proposals Due August 1st!
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Open Access Un/Conference: Promote, Impact, Assess San Jose State University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library October 25, 2013 Call For Proposals
Final deadline for submission: August 1, 2013 .
In celebration of Open Access Week, San Jose State University will be hosting a one-day conference October 25, 2013 on all things Open: Open Access, Open Resources, Open Education. This event will be a dynamic combination of formal refereed conference and informal unconference.
Unconferencing provides "a participant-guided experience that actually brings the unstructured conversations people usually have between conference sessions into the conference itself. Unlike most conferences where a group of leaders determine what will be discussed, the participants make those decisions at an unconference” (American Library Association, 2012)
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. Presentations are scheduled for either 60 minutes or 30 minutes. In the final program, 30-minute sessions will be paired.
To submit a proposal for the formal conference, please go to: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-conference
For the unconference discussion sessions , participants will build the agenda through the registration process and actively contribute to the conference as facilitators, presenters, note takers, and commentators. We welcome those interested in brainstorming big ideas and moving discussions beyond the walls of their library.
To propose unconference discussion topics, please go to: http://goo.gl/eYGPv
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
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 theclassroom * 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
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
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 theclassroom * 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. 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.
-- phoebe
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
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 theclassroom * 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.)
Luis
I'm going to be submitting a presentation about the work I've done with two archives and an online library as Wikipedian in Residence and the power of utilizing open culture data. It'll be a slight overlap to presentations I've given at other library conferences, but, it'll be a chance to show off unique open culture opportunities...
If panels or other things come into fruition I'm happy to participate as well if desired. And yes, I love licensing talk ;)
Thanks Phoebe for posting this.
-Sarah
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
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 theclassroom * 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.)
Luis
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@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 theclassroom * 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
The session on copyright might be particularly useful to video tape and post on YouTube or some other video forum
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I note that I would be really surprised if people from CC aren'tplanning to participate, but this is the first I've seen of theconference so far--I should coordinate with people to figure out whois going. (Tim, are you on this list?) But it might be fun to do alegal session with a bunch of lawyers in different aspects of thefield (OK, my idea of "fun" may be broken).FWIW, there is a "copyright help" expo booth at ALA every year--if yourecall Lucy's psychiatric help booth from the Peanuts comics, meant tobe rather like that--where people come up throughout with theirquestions, staffed by the more copyright-knowledgeable members. It'snot, strictly speaking, *popular*, but probably useful. I could see asession on copyright, OER, and institutional repositories--perhaps onewhere people submit questions beforehand, giving presenters time to 1)select the most popular and 2) prepare...-Kat-- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/DonateWeb: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: kat@wikimedia.org, kat@mindspillage.org(G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage_______________________________________________Wikimedia-SF mailing listWikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers@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 theclassroom * 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...
The more I think about it, the more the unconference track seems appropriate for this. They seem to have already opened up unconference submissions through the registration process - I'm submitting a proposal that way and will suggest CC might participate; anyone else we should invite to our party? :)
Luis
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers@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 theclassroom * 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).
I'd go :) But I have been to a lot of copyright sessions at a lot of library conferences, so... ymmv.
I don't have a good sense of who might attend, but if it's librarians (and SJSU does have a big library school) we tend to have & get questions like: * how can I sell open access to my faculty when there are so many spammy "OA" materials out there? * what do I tell faculty who are worried that they won't have control over their research if it's open licensed, or that it won't get published if they make their preprints available? What do I tell faculty who say "no one else will understand my raw data"? * I've got old photos of the campus in my archives. Can I digitize them? How should they be licensed? Will the university get sued if they're in copyright and I put them online? * I work for a university and am making an educational object for a MOOC. Can I cc license it? How? What does that mean?
etc. etc. Phoebe
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