[MCASIlaris] Open Infrastructures event - online and in person

[Gaby Haddow]

Hello all LARIS students

This is a great opportunity to hear more about 'Open-ness' from an expert panel. Please register to attend if you can.

Best wishes
Gaby





Join the party or build our own?
Open Infrastructures to Support Open Research in Australia


Please join us for this catered event which will include a panel discussion and Q&A followed by networking. Brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and Curtin University Library.

Date: Wednesday 8 May 2024
Location: Curtin University, TL Robertson Library, Level 4 Training Room 105.434
Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Registration: Please register your attendance here.<https://events.humanitix.com/join-the-party-or-build-our-own-open-infrastructures-to-support-open-research-in-australia>

Event Description
Research and the way it is communicated is in the midst of a major global shift. Digital
technologies, the internet, cloud computing and machine learning are transforming
possibilities and allowing for collaboration and meta-analysis at a scale that was previously
unimaginable. At the same time, the forms of communication that researchers use are
changing, along with the audiences they are seeking to connect with, and the expectations
embedded in research assessment practices.

These changes in research practices are being supported by a global network of research
and scholarly communication infrastructures and the often hidden army that creates and
maintains them. Librarians, repository managers, metadata providers and data scientists are
on the front lines of the open research revolution. However, in spite of its early lead in the
development of institutional repositories to support changing research practices, Australia
has been largely absent from recent international efforts to create and shape the world's
open research future.

This panel session brings two European leaders in the Open Infrastructure space into
conversation with key Australian experts. Together, the panel will explore the research
infrastructure choices that are now facing Australia. Should Australia be collaborating more
closely to help shape global open research landscapes? Or should we be investing our
efforts and resources in building our own?


Chair
Cameron Neylon<https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/cameron-neylon-d90b507b/> - co-Lead of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. Cameron is an expert
on research evaluation, open access infrastructures and governance as well and an
advocate for open practice. He was a co-author of the Principles of Open Scholarly
Infrastructure, the altmetrics Manifesto and the Panton Principles for Research Data as well
as co-organizer of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

Panellists
Eva Méndez<https://researchportal.uc3m.es/display/inv16229> - Director of the OpenScienceLab at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
and member of the CoARA Steering Board. Eva was previously chair of the Open Science
Policy Platform for the European Commission and Deputy Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy at
UC3M, and RDA ambassador for interdisciplinary research.

Danny Kingsley<https://www.oapen.org/oapen/7664742-team> - Southern Hemisphere Community Manager at OAPEN; as well as
long-time Open Access advocate in Australia and overseas; Danny was previously Deputy
Director of the University of Cambridge Library with responsibility for Open Scholarship, and
Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group

Ronald Snijder<https://www.oapen.org/oapen/7664742-team> - CTO and Head of Research OAPEN. Ronald is a world-leading expert on
the usage of open access books and architect of the OAPEN library and Directory of Open
Access Books. OAPEN is the world's largest library of OA scholarly books, and a fantastic
example of an open infrastructure enabling open practices globally.

Matthias Liffers<https://datascience.curtin.edu.au/about-us/our-people/matthias-liffers/> - Product Manager (Persistent Identifier Services) at the Australian Research
Data Commons, where he helps Australian research organisations make the most of
persistent identifiers. Within the ARDC, he is on the National PID Strategy and Research
Activity Identifier teams. Internationally, he is a member of the DataCite Metadata Working
Group, the Research Organisation Curation Advisory Board and co-chair of PIDfest - a
persistent identifier conference taking place later this year in Prague.


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