Open Scholarship and Artificial Intelligence

Digital technologies and practices—including social networking—are now pervasive and have been adopted society-wide. This creates new possibilities for engagement and interaction among academic professionals, research partners, collaborators, stakeholders, students, and additional members of the
public. This project focuses on continuing to advance the research, analysis, and engagement of the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons: an open, digital platform for research collaboration and sharing – working in theoretical and pragmatic terms to understand how best to leverage digital research infrastructures to advance open, social scholarship in ways that speak to the needs of humanities and social sciences communities. It does so in the context of generative artificial intelligence.

This collaboration builds on and extends previous Mitacs-funded work, and is undertaken by a multi-career level team at the University of Victoria in its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments SSHRC-funded Partnership. When complete, the Canadian HSS Commons will serve communities such as those represented by Iter Canada and groups beyond, as it empowers individual researchers to develop, exchange, and share open access publications, drafts, preprints, datasets, and teaching materials through a national-scale, multilingual (including French and
English) platform, which combines many features of institutional repositories and social networking sites.

Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Siemens

Student:

Partner:

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Victoria

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