WEBVTT 1 00:00:0.0 --> 00:00:12.860 Caroline Winter: Hello, my name is Dr Caroline Winter, and I'm an INKE Partnership postdoctoral fellow in open social scholarship at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria in Canada. 2 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:28.310 Caroline Winter: I'm very sorry that I couldn't be with you in person at that beautiful Castle, but in this video I'm going to share a brief overview of a project related to the website redesign that Erin Kurian is discussing with you: the development of an Environments of Change research portal. 3 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:37.800 Caroline Winter: Before we begin, though, I'd like to acknowledge with respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands. 4 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:46.410 Caroline Winter: and I have the privilege to live and work, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. 5 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:58.430 Caroline Winter: I'd also like to acknowledge that the work I'm talking about today is the work of many people, including my colleagues in the ETCL: Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Talya Jesperson, and others, 6 00:00:59.940 --> 00:01:05.780 Caroline Winter: and members--of course--of the Environments of Change team: Caley McCarthy, Steven Bednarski, Erin Kurian, and Zack MacDonald. 7 00:01:07.950 --> 00:01:25.350 Caroline Winter: My collaborations, and our collaborations in the ETCL, with the Environments of Change team focuses on knowledge mobilization and making the outputs of the project open and accessible. 8 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:31.450 Caroline Winter: As part of the website redesign that I worked on with Caley and Erin and consultations with Steven and Caley and Zack about knowledge mobilization, we've started developing a research portal. 9 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:46.910 Caroline Winter: This research portal will provide a central. one stop point of access to all of the Environments of Change project's research outputs, including published journal articles and book chapters as well as research data, code, images, videos, 3D printing files, maps, and digital reconstructions. 10 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:59.120 Caroline Winter: Our goal in developing this portal is to make research outputs discoverable and available to the project team's members and partners, as well as to its various audiences, including the broader public. 11 00:02:00.350 --> 00:02:14.870 Caroline Winter: One advantage of a portal of this kind is that it provides a central hub for showcasing the project's work, providing a clear sense of what it is accomplishing, facilitating reporting, and making visible the volume and breadth of the work being produced. 12 00:02:15.980 --> 00:02:30.100 Caroline Winter: We've decided to build the prototype research portal on a platform called the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons, or HSS Commons, so before I show the prototype of the portal itself I'll start with a brief introduction to the HSS Commons. 13 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:44.780 Caroline Winter: The Canadian HSS Commons is an online platform for open social scholarship currently in development at the ETCL, which is one of the research labs supported by the Environments of Change project. 14 00:02:45.980 --> 00:02:56.370 Caroline Winter: The development of the HSS Commons is led by the project team, but, as you can see from this list of partners and collaborators, it's very much a community effort. 15 00:2:57.170 --> 00:03:11.190 Caroline Winter: The HSS Commons is a national level, bilingual platform in both of Canada's official languages, French and English, 16 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:19.830 Caroline Winter: where researchers can share, access, repurpose, and develop scholarly projects, publications, educational resources, data, and tools. It combines many of the features of social networking sites and institutional repositories. 17 00:03:20.630 --> 00:03:29.450 Caroline Winter: Some key features of the Canadian HSS Commons include that its servers are located in Canada and it uses Canadian digital research infrastructures. 18 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:38.240 Caroline Winter: It is a prototype built on HubZERO, which is an open source code base with additional modifications freely available on GitHub. 19 00:03:39.530 --> 00:03:47.450 Caroline Winter: It includes user profiles with single sign on through ORCID and the Canadian Access Federation, which is another digital identity organization. 20 00:03:48.710 --> 00:03:56.240 Caroline Winter: It has a project development environment that integrates with widely used tools and services, including GitHub, Google Drive, and Dropbox. 21 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:09.960 Caroline Winter: It has an open access subject repository for all types of scholarly materials that assigns DOIs, or digital object identifiers, upon upload and follows best practices for research sharing. 22 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:18.350 Caroline Winter: It also has research sharing and communication tools such as interest groups, blogs, discussion forums, member to member messaging, and collections. 23 00:04:19.490 --> 00:04:29.570 Caroline Winter: Today, though, I want to focus on two elements of the Canadian HSS Commons that we're drawing on to build the Environments of Change research portal: the repository and the collections feature. 24 00:04:30.430 --> 00:04:36.950 Caroline Winter: The repository is an excellent option for depositing traditional academic publications 25 00:04:37.340 --> 00:04:48.050 Caroline Winter: as well as work that's not usually formally published, such as data sets, teaching materials, audio visual media, 3D renderings, VR files, images, code, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. 26 00:04:49.980 --> 00:05:03.050 Caroline Winter: The slide here shows an example of a publication in the repository. As you can see, it includes metadata about the work, including the title and author, of course, and also supplementary files, such as data sets or images can also be included. 27 00:05:04.070 --> 00:05:19.190 Caroline Winter: The repository supports Creative Commons licensing and has versioning capabilities, meaning that you can update a record if a subsequent version of a file is released, such as a few corrections to an article or if you say, create a second iteration of course syllabus. 28 00:05:20.510 --> 00:05:25.880 Caroline Winter: The HSS Commons repository has several advantages for the Environments of Change project and others like it. 29 00:05:26.140 --> 00:05:33.320 Caroline Winter: For one, it's open to researchers and stakeholders from all institutions and those without institutional affiliation. 30 00:05:34.340 --> 00:05:46.100 Caroline Winter: It accepts many types of deposits, not only formal publications, such as journal articles or book chapters, and also it's interdisciplinary, fostering collaboration and information sharing across disciplines. 31 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:54.500 Caroline Winter: The second element I want to draw your attention to is the collections builder feature, which functions sort of like Pinterest. 32 00:05:55.950 --> 00:06:02.910 Caroline Winter: It allows users to collect items from within the Canadian HSS Commons, including items in the repository, but also from beyond anything with a file or link can be added. 33 00:06:03.750 --> 00:06:04.740 Caroline Winter: You can also easily change the settings that control permissions and visibility for collections, as well as for individual or group publications. 34 00:06:05.090 --> 00:06:27.980 Caroline Winter: One of the challenges of developing this research portal, as you can imagine, is the sheer diversity of research outputs developed by researchers from different disciplines, institutions, and countries and publish under a wide variety of publishing terms and agreements. 35 00:06:28.570 --> 00:06:38.360 Caroline Winter: We decided to build the Environments of Change research portal as a collection on the Canadian HSS Commons because it allows us to collect together all of these research 36 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:56.000 Caroline Winter: outputs, whether they're deposited in the repository or in a different institutional or subject repository or whether they're published with an open license or beyond behind a paywall. If the actual output cannot be collected, then a link or even just its metadata can be. 37 00:06:57.290 --> 00:07:02.330 Caroline Winter: So now, I'm going to stop sharing for a second and I'm going to switch over so I can show you 38 00:07:03.620 --> 00:07:04.850 Caroline Winter: the research portal itself. 39 00:07:05.170 --> 00:07:22.520 Caroline Winter: So here you should be seeing a live view of the research portal on the Canadian HSS Commons, and I just want to give you a quick tour, highlight a couple of things included here, and a big thank you to everyone who shared your material so far, so that we could build this prototype. 40 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:37.100 Caroline Winter: The first thing I want to draw attention to is that the portal includes the Environments of Change website, because, of course, this is an important output of the project. So you can see, you can just click on the link and it takes us straight to that website. 41 00:07:38.890 --> 00:07:43.310 Caroline Winter: We can also collect different types of material. 42 00:07:44.450 --> 00:07:54.290 Caroline Winter: So, for instance, it includes Peter del Rosso's Little Manor right here, and if we click the link it takes us to SketchFab where the file is stored, 43 00:07:55.310 --> 00:07:59.380 Caroline Winter: where the 3D rendering was created. 44 00:08:00.260 --> 00:08:18.110 Caroline Winter: We can also collect material from different hosting sites so, for example, here's Erin Kurian's video about industrial waste management, and it's hosted on YouTube so as you can see there's the YouTube link and when we click it, it takes us to the video. 45 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:28.740 Caroline Winter: And I muted it, but of course there is sound, as well. 46 00:08:19.510 --> 00:08:26.540 Caroline Winter: We can also collect material, as I mentioned, 47 00:08:27.950 --> 00:08:37.220 Caroline Winter: even if we don't have the actual text of material available so, for instance, and Marie Rasmussen's book Medieval Badges. 48 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:45.410 Caroline Winter: We don't have the full text available to link to, but we can include a link to the book release that's posted on the DRAGEN Lab website. 49 00:08:46.830 --> 00:08:56.210 Caroline Winter: And so from here readers could decide whether or not they wanted to track down a copy of the book so, even though we can't include the text itself or the material itself, 50 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:00.170 Caroline Winter: we can include information about it, to help users find it. 51 00:09:01.070 --> 00:09:06.200 Caroline Winter: Scrolling down a little bit more, 52 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:11.150 Caroline Winter: I want to show you this example 53 00:09:12.280 --> 00:09:22.700 Caroline Winter: by Neil Loader et al. And so this is a journal article that's already been published, so we can click on the DOI and it will take us to the journal. 54 00:09:23.270 --> 00:09:29.660 Caroline Winter: And we can read the article there, but also this particular article has been published under a Creative Commons license. 55 00:09:30.110 --> 00:09:40.880 Caroline Winter: And so that allows us to actually collect the PDF file, the actual material itself and link it here, so if I click on the top link there, it takes us to the PDF of the article. 56 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:53.120 Caroline Winter: And the other option would be to actually deposit that article in in the Commons and the repository, which I haven't done for the portal, but it's another option, because it's Creative Commons licensed. 57 00:09:54.560 --> 00:10:02.230 Caroline Winter: The last one I want to draw your attention to is an example of something that actually isn't published yet so here, Stephen Bednarski et al. 58 00:10:03.010 --> 00:10:11.600 Caroline Winter: It's a book chapter called Northeye (Re)Constructed and, as you can see, there is no link because there's no content to link to yet--it's forthcoming still. 59 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:20.900 Caroline Winter: But even when there isn't a link or file, we can still include the metadata here and again this is really helpful for people who are looking for materials, 60 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:28.430 Caroline Winter: even if they can't access material directly, they can at least see that the item exists, and they can find some information about it. 61 00:10:29.010 --> 00:10:39.470 Caroline Winter: So, having a central portal like this, as I said, really improves discover ability, accessibility, and reusability of all these research outputs. 62 00:10:40.010 --> 00:10:49.520 Caroline Winter: So you can imagine that a teacher, say, searching for pedagogical materials related to one of the subprojects might also find a video to share with the class. 63 00:10:50.480 --> 00:11:04.310 Caroline Winter: And this kind of discoverability is supported as well by tags, so as you might have noticed each of these items has a set of tags little gray tags at the bottom, and apologies for scrolling, I'm just going to scroll to the top here. 64 00:11:05.930 --> 00:11:17.390 Caroline Winter: And so I've added three types of tags. Tags are user created, so you can either create new ones when you add an item, or you can use pick one that's already been created. I've included 65 00:11:18.650 --> 00:11:26.150 Caroline Winter: tags that indicate whether the item is associated with the Environments of Change project or whether it's directly supported by it. 66 00:11:27.690 --> 00:11:31.970 Caroline Winter: So that's one way, for instance, for reporting that can be useful way to sort material or to filter it. 67 00:11:32.870 --> 00:11:46.130 Caroline Winter: I've also included subject tags so, for instance here, medieval studies, if we click on that tag it shows us all the items in the research portal that have that particular subject tag and, as you can imagine, there are lots. 68 00:11:47.180 --> 00:11:52.700 Caroline Winter: I've also included media type tags, so this one, for example, is a 3D 69 00:11:53.170 --> 00:12:03.740 Caroline Winter: rendering, 3D model, and so I've added a 3D model tag, and clicking that shows us all the other items in the research portal that have that particular tag. 70 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:14.900 Caroline Winter: We can also have language tags. So far, we only have one non-English item which is, Genvieve Dumas has submitted a syllabus or shared a syllabus. 71 00:12:15.470 --> 00:12:26.210 Caroline Winter: And that's in French, and so I've added a tag, a francais tag so people can click on that or eventually there'll be other languages and it'll show you all the items that are in that particular language. 72 00:12:27.030 --> 00:12:45.380 Caroline Winter: So again, this is really helpful for discover ability and accessibility and also for usability so, for example, a researcher might come looking for an article on a particular topic and find more than might also find an open data set that they can reuse as part of their own research. 73 00:12:46.610 --> 00:12:49.880 Caroline Winter: So i'm just going to stop sharing here, and then I'll flip back to my slides. 74 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:59.420 Caroline Winter: There we go, and this is because I want to share some contact information with you. 75 00:13:00.870 --> 00:13:08.660 Caroline Winter: So by way of conclusion, I'd just really like to encourage you to share your publications related to the Environments of Change project with Caley so that we can add them to this research portal. 76 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.650 Caroline Winter: And I'd also like to invite you to explore the HSS Commons.