- Opening the Digital Humanities (Oct. 25)
- OAW KeyNote: Dr. Chad Gaffield President SSHRC (Oct. 26)
- Open Access to Data. New Initiatives and the Challenges of Data Management. (Oct. 27)
- Open Access and Student Scholarship: from local to international (Oct. 27)
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Opening the Digital Humanities
Date: Tuesday, October 25. Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location Dean’s Lounge, 262NB, University of Toronto Mississauga. *Register here for complementary lunch
Session description: Open access to new tools, collections and information is having a significant impact on the direction and speed of progress in the Digital Humanities. Join us for this free lunch time event and learn about the work of researchers in this quickly evolving field.
Speaker #1: William J. Turkel http://williamjturkel.net
Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, and the director of digital infrastructure for NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment.
He is the author of The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau (UBC 2007) and the co-editor (with Alan MacEachern) of Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History (Thomson, 2008). His research and teaching interests include Big History, digital and public history, STS, computational methods, fabrication, physical computing and electronics. He was a member of one of the 2009 Digging into Data Challenge Grant teams.
Presentation Title: Meeting the 'High-Throughput' Challenge
As a result of exponential increases in computing power, electronic storage density, numbers of networked devices and digital representations, humanists now face the challenge of making sense of collections of sources that cannot be visualized or understood without computation. I describe a range of techniques that allow researchers to keep up-to-date with new information, to collect and automatically process millions of sources, and to discover new patterns that require interpretation. Although some of these techniques require programming ability, many can be undertaken with freely-available or commercial software packages.
Speaker #2: Jonathan Bengtson http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/contact/bengtson.asp
Director of Library and Archives & Fellow, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto & Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Presentation Description: Mass digitization is providing the raw data for new avenues of analysis and research in the humanities and there is a blurring of methodologies between and across disciplines in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Digital research environments are being designed that will result in the academic monograph morphing into an organic, ever changing digital object. The potential of, and the implications for, the humanities are immense.
Sponsored by the U of T Mississauga Library
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U of T Open Access Week 2011 Keynote Speaker Dr. Chad Gaffield, President Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (webcast)
Date: Wednesday, October 26. Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm
Join us for a U of T Mississauga group screening, Q&A and discussion of:
Speaker: Dr. Chad Gaffield President SSHRC
Presentation Title: Open Scholarship in the Digital Era
During the past two decades, the word "open" has proven to describe a complex concept with challenging and inspiring implications for individuals, institutions and jurisdictions. New expressions such as "open access" have now been joined by new words such as "copyfight" in a multi-dimensional and multi-layered discussion around appropriate policies and practices on campus and beyond. This presentation will reflect on the deep conceptual changes that are driving this discussion as well as examine some of the promising steps forward taken in recent years.
Location: Research Office Conference Room, Rm 332, Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex
Bring your lunch. Refreshments provided.
Co-sponsored by U of T Mississauga Library and Research Office
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Open Access to Data: New Initiatives and the Challenges of Data Management.
Date: Thursday, October 27. Time: 1:00-3:00
Location: Ante Chamber 3129DV, U of T Mississauga.
Join us for a panel presentation and discussion of new initiatives and challenges associated with opening access to national, regional, municipal and research data.
Welcoming remarks: Ulrich Krull, Vice-Principal, Research; Mary Ann Mavrinac, Chief Librarian, U of T Mississauga
Panel members:
- Steve Czajka, OLS, OLIP, Supervisor, Information Planning, City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department, Policy Planning Division
- Ron Jaros MES, MCIP, RPP, OLS, OLIP, Planning Manager, Information and Intelligence Team, Region of Peel
- Diane Carley, Digital Initiatives Analyst, Project Manager - DataCite Canada, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
- Andrew Nicholson, GIS and Data Librarian U of T Mississauga Library
- Berenica Vejvoda, Data Librarian, Data Liberation Initiative Representative, Map & Data Library University of Toronto Libraries.
Co-sponsored by U of T Mississauga Library and Research Office
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Open Access and Student Scholarship: from local to international
Date: Thursday, October 27. Time: 2:00 – 3:30
An Open Access Week event for UT Mississauga student researchers.
Location: Council Chamber, Room 3129DV, U of T Mississauga. Refreshments.
Session Coordinator: Paula Hannaford, Undergraduate Experience & Assessment Librarian
Speakers:
- Rebecca Schild, Undergraduate student researcher, Department of Social Science, U of T Scarborough. Presentation title: Engaging with Canadian Scholarship through Open Access
- Abigail Speller, Project Assistant, Bioline International, Dept. Social Sciences, U of T Scarborough. Presentation title: Open Access: a perspective from the developing world.
