KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies
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We are inviting proposals for a special issue on the relationship between metadata and knowledge, guest edited by Dean Seeman and Stacy Allison-Cassin. If you have something to share on metadata, Linked Open Data, open knowledge projects, or Wikidata, please consider submitting an abstract for "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge." Scholarly articles, project reports, and creative projects all welcome! Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2021. Full CFP here: https://kula.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org//a/view/1

Exciting online symposium, "Theoretical Museology in U.S. and Tribal Contexts," being hosted by the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the International Council of Museums, US (ICOM), the Association of African-American Museums (AAAM), and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Abstracts invited on: 1) "Museology," a Word or Not a Word?... 2) Teaching Theoretical Museology 3) Theoretical Museology and Ethics 4) Theoretical Museology and the Functions of Museums in the Community CFP here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/xaBJ4PbfvjoNZ/. Proposals due Feb. 28.

We are now accepting abstracts for a special issue on Indigenous Knowledges, with Ry Moran, Carey Newman, Shelagh Rogers, and Andrea Walsh at the helm as our co-editors! See the CFP here or visit our website: https://kula.uvic.ca. Submit abstracts to [email protected]

Want to sink your teeth into open social scholarship, but don't know where to start? Check out this annotated bibliography published in @KulaJournal today! @INKEproject @ETCLatUVic #OSS #OA Hot off the press! http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.58

Dilemmas surrounding the nature and treatment of 'data' neatly and eloquently discussed by @SciTechProf "The Lives and After Lives of Data" https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/4giycvvj/

Another provocative piece by @johnwillinsky "Facilitating Fair Copyright Compensation in Canadian Universities" -- "If it’s worth teaching, it’s worth compensating" http://www.slaw.ca//facilitating-fair-copyright-compensat/

KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is thrilled to announce the publication of its second and third special collections, Methodologies of Understanding and Enacting Open Scholarship and Beyond Open: Implementing Social Scholarship, which are the products of the exciting and innovative work of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) research group. The articles gathered in these two collections challenge scholars and knowledge worke...rs of all kinds and affiliations to think about how they can develop and mobilize new approaches and technologies in their research and how their scholarship can engage a wider audience and encourage collaboration by seeking out more open, accessible, and social methods of research and dissemination. https://kula.uvic.ca//beyond-open-implementing-social-sch/ https://kula.uvic.ca//methodologies-of-understanding-and-/

Special Issue Announcement: Endangered Knowledge KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is very excited to announce the launch of its first special collection, entitled Endangered Knowledge. Inspired both by initiatives addressing the precarious state of public information in the current political climate and, more broadly, by considering endangerment as a critical category of analysis, this collection explores issues underpinning the disseminatio...n and preservation of endangered materialthat is, records, data, collections, languages, ecosystems, and networks that are currently, or that might become, at risk of disappearing. Guest edited by Samantha MacFarlane (UVic), Dr. Bethany Nowviskie (CLIR; UVA), and Dr. Rachel Mattson (UMN), this exciting new collection is comprised of 22 essays from a diverse array of disciplines and fields; composed by 34 authorsfrom academics, librarians, and archivists to grassroots organizers, activists, and artistsreaders will find an assembly of articles including scholarly research articles, pedagogical reflections and teaching materials, and a set of ‘project reports’ that cohere around and engage with the concept of endangered knowledge. Check out the special issue here: https://kula.uvic.ca/collecti/special/endangered-knowledge/

"In Atikamekw, there is no word that means artist. We instead refer to the concept that creating is a gift that permits us to honour life by creating beautiful things. Atikamekw is a very visual, metaphorical language, which contains a vision of the world that is unique. My art would be very different if I did not speak my language" -- ERUOMA AWASHISH https://canadianart.ca/features/beyond-two-solitudes/

"The American public library is a model of what a community-run, not-for-profit, public service ought to and can look like. Not only should we fight like hell to keep parasitic corporations from turning them into Amazon subsidiaries, but we should be bringing the spirit and model of the public library to every domain of economic life." https://www.currentaffairs.org///why-libraries-are-amazing

We certainly do love our libraries! https://bit.ly/2HNUsTf

In an increasingly complex realm of access, this is an important question that often gets overlooked: You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do? by @JakeOrlowitz

What happens when researchers, librarians, historians, and hobbyists come together to create a photography archive? A lot more than they expect. Craig Harkema & Keith Carlson share insight from their experience in "The Oral History of Photographs: Collaboration, Multi-Level Engagement, and Insights from the Adrian Paton Collection" Libraries and archives are...reimagining their roles within the context of community partnerships, which hold the potential to transform libra...rians and archivists into intellectual interlocutors and knowledge co-creators http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.4 @UVicLib @ThorKeith @saskhistory @SKHistFolklore @UVicUL #oralhistory #photography #openaccess #communityengagedscholarship