The 2022 Scholarly Communication Institute was held from October 9-13, 2022. This year’s theme was Reckoning, Care, and Repair, and five teams were invited to participate based on proposals they submitted in the spring. You can read about their projects in the blog posts linked from here.
Highlights of this year’s institute were added throughout the days of the program, and appear below. Other information about the 2022 program will be added to the SCI 2022 home page as it becomes available.
If you’re interested in participating in future years, check back on the trianglesci.org web site periodically (the request for proposals is typically announced in January) and follow our Twitter feed or the #TriangleSCI hashtag for news about the program.
The 2022 Scholarly Communication Institute starts on Sunday! Safe travels to everyone joining us in Durham, and we hope others will engage with us via the #TriangleSCI hashtag once things get underway. Highlights from each day will be posted here: https://t.co/a5zTqG4G3Y
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 7, 2022
Really excited to be heading to @TriangleSCI with a team of @amicalnet colleagues to work on this project! https://t.co/4Je8G3IBeb #TriangleSCI
— Jeff Gima (@jeffhgima) October 7, 2022
Welcome to Durham, #TriangleSCI teams! We've got great weather and a fun and productive week ahead.
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 9, 2022
You ordered primo weather for us. Thank you for the magic. We’ll to it over the week. @ELitLab
— Dene Grigar (@dgrigar) October 9, 2022
On my way to @TriangleSCI to make @reviews_journal a reality, with an awesome team of #scholcommies.
Feels kinda weird to be on my first Work Trip since #OpenEd19, just under 3 years. https://t.co/TYjRrZIUwW
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 9, 2022
Arrived in Durham NC last night! Looking forward to the start of #TriangleSCI later today and working with my team on developing local strategies to address the impacts of predatory publishing in the Global South. #scholcomm https://t.co/vDVM5ukAnO
— Nathan D. Woods, PhD (@Oldocwoods) October 9, 2022
At Duke in Durham, NC and ready for Triangle SCI this week! In case you'd like to know more about the project, you can find it here: https://t.co/D6TDQZ5hyK pic.twitter.com/0UBrNbLxGl
— rdsnyder (@pen_and_think) October 9, 2022
The Rickhouse is ready to welcome you. This is where we'll be for the next few days of #TriangleSCI. See you there soon! pic.twitter.com/KPfCjZtUQq
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 9, 2022
#TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/109TOAnMGG
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 9, 2022
@paoloman giving the opening remarks for @TriangleSCI ! Getting ready for a great week. Check out https://t.co/sgKm09ktan to read about the great teams this year. #scholalrycommunications pic.twitter.com/Mr1aMnV3CN
— Dave Hansen (@DigLibCopyright) October 9, 2022
Common theme: how unusual it is—like, it never happens—to have funded time to work in person w/ a distributed team for a whole week. It’s an incredible opportunity. #trianglesci
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 9, 2022
Some photos from the opening reception at #TriangleSCI last night. pic.twitter.com/rXoG87njnA
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 10, 2022
Dinner on the terrace at The Rickhouse and sunset over Durham Athletic Park for the first night of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/s8roKKBIAD
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 10, 2022
It’s a beautiful morning in Durham to start off #TriangleSCI! pic.twitter.com/Q12SWww0bu
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 10, 2022
Here is the link to the blog post for day 1 of @TriangleSCI: https://t.co/dg8ljX4XLl @CMDC_WSUV @WSUVancouver @CASatWSU
— Dene Grigar (@dgrigar) October 10, 2022
It* begins!
*It = #TriangleSCI,where the @reviews_journal team will be working to turn our idea into reality. @jnonfiction @tschultz0 @calamityleila @s_towery, and @astrobri joining us virtually from Winnipeg pic.twitter.com/Qe7htJegZq
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 10, 2022
Starting to develop our conversation around accessible metadata at #TriangleSCI!
— rdsnyder (@pen_and_think) October 10, 2022
Shout-out to Julius at The Rickhouse Durham for going above and beyond to provide tea for the UK/Canadian contingent at #TriangleSCI! 🥰
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 10, 2022
Trying the hybrid work at #TriangleSCI with @tschultz0, @matt_ruen, @jnonfiction, @calamityleila, @astrobri pic.twitter.com/CgVz82hCu5
— Stephanie S Towery (@s_towery) October 10, 2022
Nearly finished with our breakfast session at @TriangleSCI – brainstorming for our disability equity and inclusion toolkit for scholarly communications. A very successful start to an amazing conference! #disability #equity #inclusion #scholarlypublishing pic.twitter.com/8JZyTaDUtB
— EKOsborneMartin (@EKOsborneMartin) October 10, 2022
It’s hard to anticipate the value beforehand, but just making sure there’s appropriate space/tech/time/food for us without us having to think about it is HUGE for enabling us to make progress on our project, @reviews_journal. #trianglesci
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 10, 2022
Lunch at #TriangleSCI and @EKOsborneMartin and I are spreading the love of our favourite podcasts, @yourewrongabout and @MaintenancePod 😄
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 10, 2022
This afternoon at #TriangleSCI we are working to refine our approach to creating accessible metadata for scholarly archives by focusing on a pairing of controlled vocabulary and a more narrative "experience" field that provides more details in natural language @ELitLab
— rdsnyder (@pen_and_think) October 10, 2022
Some photos from this morning at #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/K550MyulPp
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 10, 2022
#TriangleSCI is in the Durham Central Park neighborhood this year pic.twitter.com/lhbaQEM6Fq
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 10, 2022
Afternoon team meetings at #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/1tjDc41L7l
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 10, 2022
The team working hard and posing next to our afternoon’s labours (spot the bourbon distillery behind us!) at #TriangleSCI – with @BooksBuilt4All & @sylwritesthings. #Disability #equity #scholarlypublishing pic.twitter.com/p6yuzfrivp
— EKOsborneMartin (@EKOsborneMartin) October 10, 2022
This afternoon @TriangleSCI we're reviewing comparables from our awesome Research team & talking about #intersectional identities, models of disability & organizing principles. #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 10, 2022
Home base for #TriangleSCI participants this week is the Durham Hotel on CCB Plaza in downtown Durham. pic.twitter.com/z4FVhNrhw3
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 11, 2022
The 1st of many outings where we share our research "informally' with our @TriangleSCI colleagues. We are toasting with Pani Puri, little cups of wheat stuffed with chickpeas and potatoes and served with Pineapple Spiced Water @MatthewMBooker @mediacology @LizMilewicz pic.twitter.com/ZSlFjdSTwC
— Dene Grigar (@dgrigar) October 11, 2022
Dinner at Geer Street Garden last night. #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/iMfd4IxXAo
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 11, 2022
Teams back at work this morning at #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/JBVI9nOaFg
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 11, 2022
I'm @TriangleSCI this week – first time we're doing it since 2019. Follow along at #TriangleSCI and see highlights of the program here https://t.co/2DOKA3axPy Important #scholcomm projects being developed, on the topic of Reckoning, Care, and Repair.
— Paolo Mangiafico (@paoloman) October 11, 2022
Thanks to @MellonFdn and @pmhswe for providing the funding that makes this all possible! #TriangleSCI https://t.co/0dpZB1Dt72
— Paolo Mangiafico (@paoloman) October 11, 2022
Go @reviews_journal Go! Take #TriangleSCI by storm! And throw me some treats! 🍡 https://t.co/5bnfqHEkXf
— Sparkles the OA Dog (@oa_dog) October 11, 2022
First group presentation at #TriangleSCI, focusing on the problem of "predatory" publishers for researchers in the Global South. A phenomenon particularly impactful on early career scholars and students.
1/ pic.twitter.com/KbVFEE1AER— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Team grappled with the motivations for publishing in questionable journals: pressure to publish, response to poorly-structured metrics, ignorance?
I love seeing the essential question: "What is the problem with predatory publishing, anyway?" The cost? The speed? Quality?
2/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Team seeks to respond by strengthening communities of practice, which of course means figuring out which communities to target–researchers? administrators/managers who evaluate research?
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Now @tommybashy06 calls out the problem of high-level metrics that care more about quantity than quality, often coming from institutions valuing rankings & status over research quality
(A depressingly familiar problem in the Global North, too.)
4/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Envisioning a 3-pronged approach to a community of practice:
– attention to best practice efforts (eg, DOAJ guidelines)
– translating these practices to local/institutional contexts
– bringing together knowledge brokers to critique, reshape, adapt best practices.
5/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
IMO this adaptation & critique is vitally important – and global north organizations need to be taking these critiques on board. Best practices & emerging norms shouldn't perpetuate Euro/Anglo-centric biases in scholarly communication.
6/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Next steps for the team, as they continue to develop ideas for building communities of practice:
– understanding & building connections for CoP – – who else is working on this problem? How/where to intersect w/other organizations & initiatives? Where *not* to align?
7/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
– expanding CoP network
– identifying strategic leadership and goals
– planning for sustainability of CoP[I think I'm missing something–I seem to be struggling with the acoustics in this venue. Or my ears are clogged up? ☹️)
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Q&A
Q- how will this CoP of knowledge brokers seek to adopt & spread best practices?
A – working to align national standards with emerging best practices–CoP as a bridge between existing orgs & local context
9/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Q asking about access to lists of predatory publishers [about which our team has Opinions], but also how to help ensure that researchers get advice?
A – goal of this CoP is to empower mentors – creating a resource that people can draw on to help raise awareness…
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
A, continued: also calls out the misuse of metrics, how promotion guidelines & c can distort incentives, push researchers towards "predatory" journals. Providing toolkits/resources for, eg, "how to talk to administrators/metrics-creators about predatory publishing".
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
There's also an emerging/repeated theme of the global north's dysfunction having ripple effect on global south. G
North embraces publish or perish culture, overreliance on Web of Science or Scopus…pushes G. South institutions to follow suit. Not good.12/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Q/more-of-a-comment – what's your big picture, ideal outcome? And what's the responsibility of global north (commercial) journals to fight against predatory publishing? Is "raising awareness" enough?
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Response starts by highlighting that even "awareness" can be huge challenge for very dispersed effort: barriers can come from internet connectivity, communication systems (eg Zoom auto transcription) that struggle with anything other than generic N American English, etc
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
! Really great to hear team mentioning *other* forms of predatory behavior by publishers–eg prestige predation, where researchers are pushed to chase prestige which kept artificially limited by commercial publishers so they can extract high fees (apc or subscription).
15/15— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
International team (Nigeria, Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada) developing a community of practice approach to mediating the impact of fraudulent journals in the majority world by translating best practices in ways appropriate to local conditions. #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/pQOXAiUuQ3
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 11, 2022
Our own project @reviews_journal can support their goals by targeting the “authors’ ability to assess an unfamiliar journal,” providing a corpus of contextually-informed reviews of scholarly journals to help authors make an informed decision to publish. #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/w44fwRKS35
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 11, 2022
Using a Meeting Owl at #TriangleSCI so team members from Nigeria and Bangladesh and all over the US can join us for this important discussion about predatory publishing via Zoom. pic.twitter.com/Va6AsDzwhv
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 11, 2022
very true. I'm haunted by Scielo and the way it was ignored. Also CARE/FAIR https://t.co/mJ2QI9CZLn
— Daniel Paul O'Donnell (@DanielPaulOD) October 11, 2022
Ignored … in the North, I mean, replicating exactly the problem.
— Daniel Paul O'Donnell (@DanielPaulOD) October 11, 2022
The Disability Equity Toolkit team has moved post-lunch operations out onto the terrace, and the weather is lovely out here! #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 11, 2022
First "plenary" discussion at #TriangleSCI this morning, with the team leading a discussion on their project titled "Towards Curing the Predatory Publishing Malady in the South" with international participants in the room and on Zoom. https://t.co/czfTJ4dVaB pic.twitter.com/vaA1GdYsQo
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 11, 2022
How to #a11y: Send round your slides ahead of your talk, ask about access needs for Q&A. Thank you, International EcoJustice OER team! #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 11, 2022
Next team presenting at #TriangleSCI: developing #OER for environmental justice.
The team represents members of @amicalnet, & explicitly looks to approach the climate crisis from an interdisciplinary liberal arts perspective.
1/ pic.twitter.com/H4xn1cerIF— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
@TriangleSCI presentation on the project preparing an International EcoJustice repository #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/JLtjxOdxsr
— Erika Fülöp (@Bbbabell) October 11, 2022
Team envisions a dedicated repository for their ecojustice #OER, but also building capacity for editorial labor & review.
Working within consortium to recruit contributors, aspire to offer stipends.
[my Q: why a new repository rather than than use existing OER platforms?]
2/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Team sees Amical as uniquely well suited for project: international network, united by focus on liberal arts education.
3/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Up now: a team composed of @amicalnet members (international American universities) building an International EcoJustice OER Repository and strategize for creation of OER and an affiliated community of practice #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/kQzbNd0R1r
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 11, 2022
And the team puts the audience to work with think-pair-share questions about usefulness of resources, issues and o consider, & opportunities to connect to OA in general.
4/ pic.twitter.com/TvVWNXxc2R— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Suggestions for making ecojustice OER useful?
– use an existing platform/repository
– editable & broadly-licensed content
– good metadata
– peer review
– accessibility
– support for multiple languages
– discoverability
– explicitly include more humanities
– make labor visible
5/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
(…)
– info on impact (esp for administrators)
– metadata (emphasized again due to many possible user groups)
– careful thought about formats (esp re accessibility & usability)Note to consider funders' prior projects when selecting tools.
6/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
How can this project support OA scholarship generally?
– more multimedia & interactivity
– show environmental impact of hosting/maintaining the content
– emphasize broad accessibility & dissemination
– clear mechanisms for credit, recognition, reward for creating content
…
7/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
…
– maybe springboard off of this year's #OAWeek theme
– use OER as gateway to OA databases
– enable citizen science & engagement
– assisting scholars with self-archiving to make more content open
– building community w/early career scholars
– incorporating OA work into OER
8/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
…
– advocating for #Open as a norm across academia, rather than OER as a special use case
– "translating" OA work into more-understandable language
– frame some of the "OER" work as more traditional (prestigious) scholarly forms, like monographs or edited volumes
9/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Interesting discussion about possible funding sources [which I mostly missed…sorry, readers!] – including the new-ish Arcadia fund/foundation.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
They asked us what they could do to make the project useful, and gave us a minute of silent reflection. The table of librarians independently and unanimously responded “don’t build your own repository, use an existing OER repository.” #TriangleSCI
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 11, 2022
More discussion:
– team considers pairing their own hosting site with deliberate effort to share in general repositoriesAudience [incl me] comments: emphasizing how important it is to give OER creators *TIME* to do the work.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 11, 2022
Our team's project presented at the plenary today @toroniran @ayeni_philips @DrAlongeAJ https://t.co/akaBtOApYK
— Adegbilero Idowu (@adegbilero) October 11, 2022
Day 3 of #TriangleSCI kicks off with discussion of a toolkit for disability equity, for people with disabilities and anyone who works with people with disabilities, in #scholcomm context
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Interlinked problems: significant (15?)% of adults have some disability, yet massive under/un-employment of those people, yet ALSO huge need for their perspectives in #scholcomm industries & organizations.
Toolkit targets these intersecting problems.
2/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
« When I see someone with disability, I see a problem solver. »#TriangleSCI @TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/uBOY4pscdZ
— Erika Fülöp (@Bbbabell) October 12, 2022
Asking #TriangleSCI participants to help the team explore use cases, think about kinds of resources, identify minimum viable product to share.
What's planned for their toolkit website?
3/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
– landing page & "about"
– resources aligned to the employment lifecycle: hiring to onboarding to ongoing worl
– ideas, practices, quick wins to implement
– lived experience required sources, especially including scripts to use (shout-out to excellent @AskAManager blog)
4/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Up now: the team developing the next Toolkit for Equity (https://t.co/m1ffKIvH62): the Toolkit for Disability Equity (in Scholarly Communication) #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/Yn2iD8u0XQ
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 12, 2022
– FAQs for stakeholder groups
– governance & policy
– [a final thing that I missed bc slow thumbs]Next up: putting us to work thinking through formative questions
5/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Q: how would we use such a toolkit?
– scripts!
– evidence for advocacy
– mentoring for new people
– tool for leaders to think through practice
– use examples of quick wins to spark real change (& not just handwringing)
6/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Q: how to keep the toolkit active & sustained?
– clear feedback mechanism
– grant funding
– an opportunity for the largest schol. publishers to leverage their resources to dedicate resources ($ or staff) to maintain*
– crowdsourcing & collaborating with other organizations
7/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
*tangent: this is precisely the sort of generosity & contribution to community that would make it harder for "strongly opinionated" #scholcommies like me to complain about the big 5 commercial publishers' profit margins.
7a/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Q: how to create & foster community around disability w/in #scholcomm?
– decentralized
– interdependence among parts of the community
– willingness to let work evolve
**interesting tension between a stable resource and an ongoing task**
– expect/enable changing the toolkit
8/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
…
– be intentional about what communit(ies) you want to foster – – is it *for* scholcomm professionals? For people w/disabilities? Let that focus shape subsequent efforts
– begin by working to understand information needs
9/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
The final thing is community 🙂 #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
Q: what does a good conversation about disability look like?
– room for listening AND contributing
– people (esp the abled/privileged) should come to the convo having done some work to learn & prep
– brings in new people, broadens horizons
– is specific & leads to action
10/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Closing by inviting participation in the team's working documents, especially a SWOT analysis of the project.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
I'm glad you tweeted about this tension–we do want the structure of this resource to be (somewhat) stable but the CONTENT to be steadily updated, reviewed, and renewed #TriangleSCI https://t.co/N2sFfxybUi
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
The outside world is changing quickly, and resources like this one need to evolve alongside in order to remain relevant and helpful. #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
Our team's additional, EXTREMELY SERIOUS consensus: a good conversation, on any topic, also *requires* access to donuts.
(This message brought to you in part by today's #TriangleSCI breakfast spread) https://t.co/7ciw8FI4bn
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Next up: Improving metadata for better accessibility to scholarly archives for disabled people
Begininng by discussing https://t.co/iSstbI0keD
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Describes the project as built for accessibility distinctive in providing:
– collecting & sharing born-digital arts & lit
– local access & distributed hosting
– reflects variety of languages
– usable for *all* users
2/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
[I wonder: How is this different from many examples of digital preservation in archives, other than the language focus?
Does the project engage at all with the large range of (too often ignored) archival science research on digital access & long-term preservation?]
3/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Discussing how the space is designed around ideas of live performance, performative experiences.
Seeking to ensure that people with disabilities can feel comfortable in the space, as if in a performance audience.
4/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Hey #TriangleSCI folks, did you like the text font we used on our slides this morning? It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible, and here's where you can download it: https://t.co/kbSRInC4NF
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
Thanks to my team members who pointed out that the default text font in my Google Slides template was hard to read and prompted me to remember that I had a better one available! #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
Extended eLectronic Metadata Schema (ELMS) developed for this project & site. 3 levels of description, for different versions of works [ala RDA's work/expression/manifestation]
An extension of the MODS schema, with more fields, eg hardware/software dependencies, languages, &c
5/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
[tangent: I really want to know how the team has engaged with archival science literature and practice. A bunch of this sounds familiar to what I vaguely remember from coursework/readings on digital preservation]
5a/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Expanded metadata includes controlled vocabulary for describing accessibility needs/dependencies, also encourages narrative descriptions of the work and the *experience of the work*.
6/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
The team building an Extended eLectronic Metadata Schema (ELMS, a MODS extension for digital objects with vitality aspects-audio sound interaction movement etc) found the framework of the “relaxed performance” helpful in thinking about accessibility metadata /1 #TriangleSCI
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 12, 2022
Indications about the experience of the work in the metadata can give information to the user that can drive the ways that the user might seek accommodations to engage with the work. The idea is to attune the project w/ disability justice. /2 #TriangleSCI
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 12, 2022
The goal is ultimately to apply this metadata to The Next https://t.co/qYilknFKAJ, going beyond ADA to the fullest possible accessibility. /end #TriangleSCI
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 12, 2022
Asking us to take a look at a couple of ELMS-described works & consider questions:
– What could add/change w/controlled vocab?
– how would approach the narrative description & "experience of the work" sections?
8/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
[my thoughts: really interesting idea with lots of potential, but gosh it's up against a massive practical obstacle: the chronic understaffing & excess backlogs facing GLAM institutions. Who has the resources to conduct this level of metadata?]
9/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Artworks we looked at:https://t.co/72uPZ1yvtG
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
Very interesting note from @jnonfiction that the current metadata really focuses on physical disabilities, leaving out info that might help users with cognitive disabilities.
Also multiple ppl noting it's not always clear that the artworks rely on deliberate interaction.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
My oldest child’s first therapist, decades ago, sat us down and gave us some pretty foundational advice: “Your world will always move too fast for your child. If you want to know, to engage with, to connect with your child, *you* will have to adapt to *their* world.”
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 12, 2022
Yesterday afternoon's discussion at #TriangleSCI led by the team working on "Intercultural and interdisciplinary open resources supporting environmental justice" https://t.co/Dnugs71Xl3 pic.twitter.com/zAsuSi1NMx
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 12, 2022
Thank you Tina for the impromptu tour of the new Liberty & Plenty distillery next door to The Rickhouse at the end of the second day of #TriangleSCI! pic.twitter.com/7TpBtROZ6v
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 12, 2022
We’re now hearing about a project to share in-depth, contextualized, nuanced information about journals—not just a safe list vs watch list binary #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
It’s called, delightfully, Reviews: Journal of Journal Reviews 😁 #TriangleSCI
— Sylvia Izzo Hunter (@sylwritesthings) October 12, 2022
Not live tweeting the last presentation at #TriangleSCI bc our team is a little busy presenting about @reviews_journal! pic.twitter.com/i9JiRThhWe
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 12, 2022
"Equity Toolkit for Disability Inclusion" team leading a discussion this morning at #TriangleSCI https://t.co/pyffgTYsjB pic.twitter.com/0PCmbFADDB
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 12, 2022
"Improving Metadata for Better Accessibility to Scholarly Archives for People with Disabilities" leading a discussion about their project this morning at #TriangleSCI https://t.co/1sXIXpnJO2 pic.twitter.com/qdNcASCUrS
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 12, 2022
"Building a contextual alternative to scholarly journal un/safelists" team leading a discussion at #TriangleSCI this afternoon about their effort to develop "Reviews: the Journal of Journal Reviews (RJJR)" https://t.co/QoavwDQit4 pic.twitter.com/c1ESukHiFK
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 12, 2022
After last session at @TriangleSCI, members of the ELL Team gain a sense of accomplishment @CASatWSU @CASatWSU @WSUVancouver pic.twitter.com/WeP3pYgdzt
— Dene Grigar (@dgrigar) October 12, 2022
Our team's Elevation pitch happening now at the @TriangleSCI #TriangleSCI 2022 pic.twitter.com/zOn04d5aNw
— Adegbilero Idowu (@adegbilero) October 13, 2022
Day 4 of #TriangleSCI: final roundup of each team's work.
First: the newly-named Southern Network for Open and Ethical Publication Practices talking about their work to counteract "predatory" publishing in the Global South.
(with the vital caveat that it's a global problem)
1/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
SNOEPP seeks to build a "network for knowledge brokers in the global south" to support publishing practices, to bring attention to existing standards & practices, but also to apply pressure to those standards to incorporate global southern perspectives.
2/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Aiming to develop a community of practice that can intersect with existing local and regional initiatives, and bring together interested stakeholders to develop a toolkit — the toolkit as a locus of the community as well as practical resources for better publishing practices.
3/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
A question (not from us!) about points of connection with @reviews_journal project:
– yes, especially around shared pain points
– both projects can play a role in supporting/enhancing existing mentorship, but also perhaps assist scholars outside of the prestige circuit
4/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Another interesting perspective: "communities of practice are largely communities of identity" – so even if the problem is similar, there are valid reasons to have separate communities — thinking about networks of alliances between CoPs rather than squeeze everyone into one.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Next up at #TriangleSCI: improved metadata for better accessibility to scholarly archives for disabled people
Developing a system for rich/highly detailed description of art, multimedia, games, etc, to enable people with disabilities to experience & engage with the work.
6/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Built on idea of "relaxed performance guides" which help create more welcoming space at performances for, e.g., people w/sensory sensitivities.
Challenges include:
– complexity & specificity of disabilities that need to be addressed
– language that's precise but not jargon
7/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Explored this week:
– variety of fields needing disabilities justice
– complexity of communication & social obstacles
– links between disabilities justice & social justice
– tech change/obsolesence/format-shifting
– barriers to *any* inclusion/accessibility/justice efforts
8/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Next steps:
– white paper detailing controlled vocabulary/schema
– guide to "experiencing the work" statements for GLAM institutions
– case study applying schema to VR works
– implement in featured collection
– seek funding to fully describe all work at their institution
9/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: what efforts/plans to introduce into the GLAM community & encourage adoption?
– draw on existing networks (eg performance/display spaces they've worked with)
– making available online
– conference presentations[seems v. focused on art orgs, less on libraries/archives]
10/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: thoughts about scaleability? Eg, w/ automation?
– sees promise in machine learning image recognition for automatic descriptions
– aspiration that as knowledge of schema is disseminated, creators will start to create this metadata themselves
– 'ambassadorship' outreach
11/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Towards Curing the Predatory Publishing Malady in the South: The TriangleSCI Facilitation @TriangleSCI https://t.co/WvKzbyrLo2 #TriangleSCI
— Adegbilero Idowu (@adegbilero) October 13, 2022
#3 at #TriangleSCI: Toolkit for Disability Equity in #ScholarlyCommunications
A toolkit gathering a variety of tools for people with disabilities or working with disabled people – designed for practical use and aligned to the context of scholarly communications work.
12/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Primary goals: awareness, education, building community.
This week:
– brainstormed toolkit content
– identifying a minimum viable product – what can they get out & start using?
MVP: about the initiative, FAQs for people with disabilities, resources to enable 'quick wins'
13/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Likely to exclude our own project, @reviews_journal, which made significant progress in policies, roles, and thinking about the ethics of publishing journal reviews and the steps necessary to make this a liberatory project against the status quo.
— Joshua Neds-Fox (@jnonfiction) October 13, 2022
– also refined organization of ~30+ volunteers & project workflows for toolkit content
Next steps:
– May '23 launch toolkit
– mid-23 plan for future state, succession planning
– Nov '23 launch community of interest
– 2024+ building towards future state14/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: what do you imagine for succession/sustainability?
– steering group to lead sustainability efforts
– identifying clear plans for future work
– assessing based on response to initial launches15/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: plans for growing/developing community?
– possible task for existing volunteer team
– identifying different relevant communities: maintainers of the toolkit, users of toolkit, etc (how to make it easy to move between these groups?)
– also wrestling with moderation, etc16/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: plans for engaging w/broader #scholcomm community beyond comm'l publisher venues (SSP, Charleston)
– inviting ideas from audience here!
– made sense to start with the team's existing connections
– careful prioritizing!
– work for the volunteer community to explore
17/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: licensing the toolkit?
– using PubPub, so using a Creative Commons license TBDQ: plans to get feedback from users?
– contact mechanisms
– loves idea of inviting user testimonials18/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Part of project's inspiration: disabled people working at a big corporation, probably already have a group or resources to support you — contrast with smaller org (eg a Uni Press) which might lack that infrastructure.
So the toolkit can help bridge that gap.
19/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Next at #TriangleSCI: creating OER for ecojustice, from @amicalnet team
The problem: ongoing and escalating climate catastrophe.
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Opportunity: liberal arts institutions are well positioned to tackle mis/dis/lack of -information on ecojustice, bc liberal arts focus on critical thinking, interdisciplinarity, lifelong learning;
And AMICAL's international network enables global engagement & dissemination21/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
The plan: creating an #OER hub to support educators, students, scholars, librarians to find & share materials related to ecojustice teaching.
-Resources created by AMICAL members, but also external materials curated by experts
– fostering community
– stipends for OER creation
22/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Next steps:
– create a prototype for the project, including a working website, material templates, example content, peer review workflow
– seeking out feedback from AMICAL members
– seeking funding sources to adequately tackle the full scope of the needs and opportunities
23/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: thoughts about how they'd use funding/external resources?
– drawing on prior experience in collaborative projects across AMICAL network
– coordinating with existing local OER initiatives
– creating professional development materials & trainers
– $ for faculty stipends24/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Emphasizing how special the institute was in providing TIME for working on projects, and looking to create that same opportunity for people developing ecojustice OER – TIME as catalyst for a positive feedback loop of work>>feedback>>collaboration>>new work
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— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Lastly (and least-tweeted, for obvs reasons) at #TriangleSCI: the @reviews_journal team talking about our initiative!
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Sad I can't be there with my team and am instead holed up sick in a hotel room. But it's a cool project; check us out! https://t.co/2Gp1pmJL2c
— Teresa Schultz (@tschultz0) October 13, 2022
Q: how will reviews be written, in style & format? Consider transparency of process over 'objectivity'.
– Rubric will be core of style guide
– Yes! encouraging journalistic transparency
– using snapshots of journal website via Internet Archive to help transparency27/
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: similarity to database of consumer product reviews — but is there also space for scholarly reflection *on* aspects/forms of publishing?
– we're focusing on reviews first
– comparable to registered reports, other non-"article" forms of scholarly work
28/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
– we envision this as focusing on the conversation about specific reviews, first
– we seek to affirm the scholarly value of work we (librarians, etc) are already doing
29/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Q: thoughts about presenting data from reviews in aggregate – demonstrating our impact, measuring change over time
– really neat idea! but also we want to avoid quantification of reviews
– aware that we're almost certain to have non-representative sample of journals
30/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Stephanie with a great point: Librarians are already doing the labor of evaluating journals for our faculty. This is just a way for us to share our work with others (so stop remaking the wheel) and peer reviewed credit for it at the same time.
— Teresa Schultz (@tschultz0) October 13, 2022
Q: potential for RJJR to act as database to help identify 'where to publish'; also noting that what counts as a journal can be mutually incomprehensible across disciplines. Maybe homogeneity of contributors (librarians) can help by providing a common disciplinary lens.
31/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
– we really value how different audiences have described different desires for the work; the common librarianship lens has helped us stay focused
Comment: lots of potential in emphasizing that we're formalizing work that's already going on.
32/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
Comment: very important to provide a space for productive conversation – seeing a clear vision to the project is really valuable
[in which Matt feels uncomfortable with public praise for things he's involved in…]
33/— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
ANd that's a wrap for the #TriangleSCI projects!
This has been a really remarkable, valuable week.
— Matt Ruen (@matt_ruen) October 13, 2022
#TriangleSCI out for dinner in the Bull City on the last night of this year’s program. pic.twitter.com/ABWde1FZLi
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
"Intercultural & interdisciplinary open resources supporting environmental justice" team on the last day of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/HoFoPywSSp
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
"Equity Toolkit for Disability Inclusion" team on the last day of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/dsuF9CnkAG
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
"Towards Curing the Predatory Publishing Malady in the South: Community of Practice Approach to Developing Local Strategies and Toolkits" team on the last day of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/oTSArh55Dq
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
"Building a contextual alternative to scholarly journal un/safelists" team on the last day of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/s6EidPrIbS
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
"Improving Metadata for Better Accessibility to Scholarly Archives for People with Disabilities" team on the last day of #TriangleSCI pic.twitter.com/VWRuqoXV1X
— Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (@TriangleSCI) October 13, 2022
What a week! Thank you #TriangleSCI colleagues for sharing your knowledge and ideas and energy, and helping to build a community that will continue to work on issues of equity and justice and repair in scholarly communications long after we leave here. https://t.co/2DOKA3axPy pic.twitter.com/C5xbEov3Bo
— Paolo Mangiafico (@paoloman) October 13, 2022
And much gratitude to the @MellonFdn and my @TriangleSCI and @DukeLibraries colleagues (especially @LizMilewicz and Julius at The Rickhouse) for the resources, time, and effort that made this all possible! https://t.co/nKj7TcfQCA
— Paolo Mangiafico (@paoloman) October 13, 2022
Such a great experience! https://t.co/ZdKHeAz2Vd
— Nathan D. Woods, PhD (@Oldocwoods) October 13, 2022
Well, folks, here we are. Triangle SCI class of 2022. What a terrific cohort of thinkers and makers. @ELitLab @WSUVancouver @wsuv_research https://t.co/UKtDPDALek
— Dene Grigar (@dgrigar) October 13, 2022
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