UBC Vancouver Event summary
All sessions in Lillooet (301) Room, in the Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, unless otherwise indicated**.
UBC Okanagan Events
Tuesday, October 25 – 3 to 4:15 PM – Provost’s Forum “Open Access: Breaking Barriers and Sharing Knowledge in a Digital World”
UBC Vancouver Events – Full Schedule
Monday, October 24, 2011
| Session 1 | 3:00 to 4:00 PM ** Leonard S. Klinck building, Room 301 | |
A Course on Reproducible Research in Computational and Data Science: What should it be? |
Dr. Ian Mitchell & Dr. Dhavide Aruliah
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| Computers have become a vital tool in all areas of research. Unfortunately the software and data that enables this research is too often developed and managed in a haphazard fashion. Reproducible research is the idea that research contributions in the computational and data sciences involve not only publication of an article in an academic venue, but also release of sufficient components of the software and data such that the results claimed in the publication can be reproduced and extended by other scientists. Reproducible research therefore is a cornerstone of open access to scientific scholarship.Starting in January 2012, the presenters will be offering a pilot course on tools, techniques & strategies to improve the reproducibility of scientific research of a computational or data-intensive nature. The goals of this panel discussion are to inform the UBC community of our intentions with this course and to solicit feedback from the community on what the course should contain. Topics may include: tools and best-practices for software management; data provenance, anonymization and maintenance; intellectual property issues; avenues for effective dissemination; case studies (both good and bad). | |
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
| Session 1 | 9:30 AM to 10:55 AM | |
KEYNOTE: Opening Up Education – Creative Alternatives to Access Copyright. |
Paul Stacey, Director, Communications, Stakeholder & Academic Relations at BCcampus |
As institutions opt out of the Access Copyright Post-Secondary Educational Institutional Tariff creative alternatives to sourcing educational content and resources need to be found. Join Paul in this interactive keynote exploration of creative alternatives including fair dealing, Open Access research publishing, Open Educational Resources, open textbooks, open licenses, and open educational practices. While acknowledging the challenges opting out of Access Copyright creates this session will outline the opportunities this creates to do things differently and to fully utilize digital alternatives. Within a broad array of creative alternatives Paul will focus in on the unique opportunities associated with Open Educational Resources (OER). BC and international OER development efforts will be highlighted, sample OER resources shown, and the implications for institutions, faculty and students explored. This session will conclude with interactive discussion around the implications opening up education has for UBC and higher education in general as we collectively transition into this new future. |
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| Session 2 | 11:00 AM to 11:55 AM | |
| Transitioning a journal to an open access business model: a Canadian perspective. |
Lesley Andres, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia and Editor of Canadian Journal of Higher Education and Sharon Hu, Journal Manager |
| Lesley will describe her experience moving her journal from a traditional business model to an OA model and why she did it. | |
| Session 3 | 12:00 PM to 1:20 PM | |
KEYNOTE - ”What Problems Are We Trying TO Fix?” |
Dr. David Rosenthal, Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University |
COPPUL Sponsored Event
Event is live webcasted to COPPUL Libraries |
Open access is changing the system of research communication. But can it solve the problems that beset the system? What exactly are these problems? Drawing on the discussions at a recent workshop on the “Future of Research Communication”, Dr. Rosenthal looks at the dysfunctions of the system from the viewpoints of participants such as researchers, libraries, publishers, software developers and the general public. |
| AFTERNOON THEME: Open Acess Publishers | 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM |
| BREAK 1:30 to 2:00 PM | |
| Session 4 | 2:00 to 2:45 PM | |
Leading the next frontier of OA: Filtering, Aggregating, and Evaluating Research Content. |
Jennifer Lin, Public Library of Science |
| Session 5 | 2:45 to 3:30 PM | |
Why Springer Moved to OA? |
Wim van der Stelt, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Springer Science+Business Media |
| Post Talk Refreshments & Meet & Greet Publishers | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Refreshments generously sponsored by Springer. |
Wednesday, October 26th
| Session 1 | 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | |
Blogging as Cataloging: Visibility, Accessibility and Possibility in Special Art Libraries |
Ksenia Cheinman, MLIS candidate UBC School of Library, Archival & Information Studies |
| Ksenia will explore the value of using blogs as a cataloging mechanism to enhance digital objects, records in Art libraries. | |
| Session 2 | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | |
Opening Up Worldwide Access to key BC Historical Documents: Chinese Canadian Stories, BC Historical Newspapers and more |
Mike Conroy, Denise Fong, Mimi Lam, Digitization Team, UBC Library |
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UBC Library’s Digitization program has opened up global access to many historical documents. The digitization team will showcase and demonstrate new and upcoming digital projects from the UBC Library Digital Initiatives Unit. Projects highlighted include British Columbia Historical Newspapers Project; BC History Digitization Program; the BC Digitization Coalition and the Community Historical Recognition Program – Chinese Canadian Stories. |
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| Session 3 | 11:00 AM – 11:55 AM | |
KEYNOTE - Opening the Possibilities of the Internet: OpenMedia.ca’s Transformative Campaigns and the University Community |
Reilly Yeo, Managing Director, OpenMedia.ca |
COPPUL Sponsored Event
Event is live webcasted to COPPUL Libraries |
OpenMedia.ca has changed the face of online activism in Canada and, as a result, changed the conversation about what the Internet means for society. Managing Director Reilly Yeo will describe OpenMedia.ca’s efforts to democratize the digital policy-making process, and explain why universities should pay attention.OpenMedia.ca is a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada. OpenMedia.ca unites citizen voices in the digital policy-making process and works to open the Internet’s transformative potential to everyone. Our primary goal is to increase informed participation in Internet governance. |
| Session 4 | 12:00 PM- 12:55 PM | |
Getting Started with Creative Commons |
Duncan McHugh, Faculty of Land & Food Systems |
| Using copyrighted material is fraught with challenges. Creative Commons offers an alternative to copyright. This session will introduce Creative Commons, its pros and cons, and show users how to begin using Creative Commons materials right away, both as creators and users of media. | |
| Session 5 | 1:00 PM- 2:25 PM | |
User Rights in Education – Comparative copyright laws in US & Canada |
Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D.Professor, University Libraries, Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication University of Louisville. |
| Dwayne will identify the key public policy goals copyright purportedly remedies, albeit sometimes most unhelpfully, and then compare some commonalities and differences between US and Canadian approaches and, in particular, serious limitations plaguing “fair dealing” regimes, that in the speaker’s view, is a rigid adherence to statutory constructs and precisely identified allowances or limitations that offers far less flexibility than the US fair use doctrine for making creative decisions in novel situations. | |
| Session 6 | 2:30 PM – 3:25 PM | |
| Bill C-11 – Beyond Digital Locks |
Martha Rans, Creative Commons Canada |
| Find out more about the proposed new copyright legislation. A brief overview will be followed with a question & answer. Martha will offer her on the ground experience acting for artists and educators on a variety of copyright issues. | |
| Session 7 | 3:30 – 4:30 PM | |
Open source solutions for archival collections |
Evelyn McLellan, Artefactual Systems, Sarah Romkey, Archivist, UBC Library |
| Developments in open source software have made it easier for archival institutions to provide access to their holding and to preserve born-digital records. Evelyn McLellan, Systems Archivist for Vancouver-based software developer Artefactual Systems, will describe open-source software developed by Artefactual for use in libraries and archives. Sarah Romkey, Rare Books and Special Collections Archivist for UBC Library will provide a description of projects being undertaken at UBC Library to use this software to better preserve and provide access to archival holdings. | |
Thursday, October 27th
| Session 1 | 9:00 – 9:55 AM | |
Copyright and the Classroom: Open Scholarship Solutions to Support Classroom Use of Material |
Joy Kirchner, Scholarly Communications Coordinator, UBC Library |
| The aim of these sessions is to provide educators and researchers with an understanding of use permissions for copyrighted materials and licensed material for classroom, research and instructional use; an understanding of author’s rights in this context and an explanation of how open access and other open scholarship models can be a solution for your classroom needs. | |
| Session 2 | 10:00 – 10:20 AM | |
Investigations into Open Peer Review Models |
Bonnie Wen, MLIS candidate UBC School of Library, Archival & Information Studies |
| Bonnie Wen will describe several experiments with Open Peer Review models from several major publishers. | |
| Session 3 | 10:30 – 11:25 AM | |
| From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle |
Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Coordinator, Tara Stephens, cIRcle Librarian, Julia Thompson, Digital Library Assistant, UBC Library |
| Want to disseminate your research locally, nationally, globally? Interested in getting information dissemination support for materials from your community based projects? Find out how to share your research results or teaching materials easily via cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository (https://circle.ubc.ca/). cIRcle provides open and permanent access to the intellectual output of the UBC community and its partners, including articles, conference and workshop papers, theses and dissertations, exemplary undergraduate student research, technical reports and working papers, books, datasets, learning objects, multimedia and audio-visual materials including podcasts, webcasts and more. A wonderful example of a project that involved many members of our community and beyond is the cIRcle Olympics Project (October 2009—April 2011). This was a unique effort to gather, showcase and preserve UBC’s intellectual output related to the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Over the course of 18 months, material was gathered in a variety of formats on a range of Olympics related topics from ethics and sustainability to inclusivity and social responsibility. The result is a unique collection of valuable material that receives tens of thousands of views and downloads from around the world and serves as an important record of UBC’s significant contribution to the Vancouver Olympic Legacy. |
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| Session 4 | 11:30AM – 12:45 PM | |
| Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration |
Will Engle, Novak Rogic, Scott McMillan, UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology |
| UBC has developed a rich web publishing framework that enables open sharing and republishing for scholarly communication, academic collaboration, and teaching and learning applications. Powered by WordPress and MediaWiki open source software, UBC Blogs, UBC CMS, and the UCB Wiki serve close to 10,000 users and significantly contribute to UBC’s rich publishing landscape. This session will explore the technical, governance, support, and informational architecture aspects of this DIY framework. It will also examine how UBC faculty, students and staff are using the framework to advance teaching and learning, open communication, and scholarly collaboration. | |
| BREAK | 12:45PM – 1:00PM |
| AFTERNOON THEME: UBC Innovators in the Dissemination of Research – Showcase and Exchange | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM |
Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, with a question and answer period to follow. Includes refreshments, discussion and exchange.
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Prof. Anne-Marie Nicol on Wash With Care |
Dr. Anne-Marie Nicol, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Environmental Health |
| Wash With Care is a community-based, collaborative research project aimed at raising awareness about pesticide safety in farming communities in BC’s Lower Mainland. The project uses a series of Public Service Announcement videos to communicate information about how to safely launder pesticide-contaminated clothing. Because the primary audience for this information is Punjabi-speaking women, the videos feature a specially-choreographed bhangra dance and well-known Punjabi actors to disseminate their message. | |
Dr. Paul Evans on Asia Pacific Memo |
Dr. Paul Evans, Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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| The Institute has been running an experiment with a twice-weekly e-publication that aims to make sophisticated academic research widely accessible (www.asiapacificmemo.ca). It includes short text version and video interviews. | |
Dr. Rosie Redfield on Open Science and her own Open Science blog RRResearch |
Dr. Rosie Redfield |
Dr. Erin Michalak on Stigma and Biopolar Disorder: Moving Knowledge to Action |
Dr. Erin Michalak, Mood Disorders Centre, Dept. of Psychiatry |
| Professor Michalak will describe her novel knowledge translation strategy involving the use of drama to share information about mental illness stigma with people with BD and their clinicians. | |
| Dr. Harry Brumer on Cazypedia |
Dr. Harry Brumer
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| Dr. Harry Brumer will discuss the development of his community-driven resource to assemble a comprehensive encyclopedia “CAZymes,” the carbohydrate-active enzymes and binding proteins involved in the synthesis and degradation of complex carbohydrates. | |
| Dr. Wyeth W. Wasserman and Dimas Yusuf on Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe) ) – Winner of the 2011 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award |
Dr. Wyeth W. Wasserman and Dimas Yusuf |
| The Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe), is an online open access encyclopedia that houses more than 800 articles about transcription factor genes. Transcription factors are a special class of genes that control when genes are turned on or off. They are critical to learning how to use embryonic stem cells for the treatment of human disease. The TFe, which is a wiki-based software system, encourages experts to create short summaries of the known information about each transcription factor. The summaries are comprised of text, 3D models, and word clouds. | |
