[Commlist] Call for Contributions : Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance. History, Challenges, Practices

*Call for Contributions *

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*Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance.*

*History, Challenges, Practices*

University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 7-9 September 2020

This 3 days workshop is organized by the OPERAS (a European research 
infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication in 
the social sciences and humanities, see https://operas.hypotheses.org) 
community. It aims at revisiting digital knowledge infrastructures from 
an organisational and governance perspective, through their history, 
their stakes and achievements, as well as their challenges and obstacles.

Our workshop aims to explore how these infrastructures frame themselves, 
evolve and adapt, how they stimulate participation and implement 
innovative models of governance (e.g. Wikipedia) as well as how they 
create a shared culture and common values, how they sustain knowledge 
commons and may contribute to a new epistemology and scientific environment.

How to balance the needs to ensure efficiency and reliability with the 
capacity to be open to new models of governance, including those who 
have emerged from the digital environment ? How to meet the rising needs 
of players to cooperate on the basis of personal autonomy, flexibility 
and opportunity, rather than exclusively on hierarchy and formalism ? 
Acting at the interface of several communities, what governance tools, 
forms and means of action have digital knowledge employed so far and 
which ones could they further use in order to satisfy their role of 
intermediaries, mediators and facilitators within complex environments ?

Relevant topics may include but are not limited to:

• History of digital knowledge infrastructures

• History, evolution and analysis of specific concepts such as 
accountability in governance, liquid democracy, etc., as well as 
proposals to go beyond these existing models

• Critical review of innovative modes of governance in distributed 
organisations or/and in the digital area

• Field studies of innovative governance in chosen public and private 
organisations and their practices

• Field studies of innovative governance in creating and maintaining 
knowledge commons

• Critical testimonies on the implementation or experiments with new 
modes of governance

• Presentation and analysis of online decision-making tools (wiki, 
blockchain, e-voting, etc.)

• Prospective outlook on the governance of knowledge and research 
infrastructures

The workshop will combine formal presentations with more participatory 
collective brainstorming sessions. It is open to the academic world 
(digital humanities, history, management and administration sciences, 
computer science, information and communication sciences, media studies, 
etc.), to the world of culture, libraries, archives, publishing, but 
also widely to the players in the free software movement as well as to 
the private sector (whether participants are confronted with new forms 
of governance (such as holacracy), suppliers of software solutions 
related to the challenges of digital governance or involved in the 
implementation of new modes of governance in their organisations).

In order to leave time for a variety of exchanges, demonstrations, 
scientific interventions and experience feedbacks we invite proposals for:

* 15-minutes presentations

* Posters and demos with accompanying 5-minutes lightning talk

* Tutorials focused on tools, technologies, or practical exercises (from 
30 minutes to 1 hour depending of the project)

The workshop will be held in English. All proposals must be written in 
English and should outline how their contribution advances the 
understanding of topics related to the conference themes, how it relates 
to previous work (if applicable), and what impact it may have on our 
understanding of these challenges.

Proposals for:

* Presentations must be submitted as an abstract of 500 words max

* Posters must be submitted as an abstract between 200 and 300 words

* Tutorials must be submitted as an abstract of 500 words and include 
information about coordinator(s), format, target audience, anticipated 
number of participants, and technical requirements

All proposals should include a title and a short biography of the 
applicant(s).

All submissions are due by May 20, 2020. Feedback on acceptance will be 
given no later than June 10, 2020.

Send submissions at : (valerie.schafer /at/ uni.lu)

To learn more on the OPERAS : https://operas.hypotheses.org 
<https://operas.hypotheses.org/>

Programme committee :


Janneke Adema (Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed, Coventry University, 
COPIM)

Suzanne Dumouchel (OPERAS, Huma-Num, CNRS)

Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition, EHESS)

Valérie Schafer (C^2 DH, University of Luxembourg)

Lars Wieneke  (C^2 DH, University of Luxembourg)

Sherri Barnes (UCSB Library, COPIM)

Cameron Neylon (Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University)

Practical Information:

No registration fees. The Conference will provide coffee breaks, lunches 
and dinners for those who are presenting. Accommodation and travel 
expenses are the responsibility of the presenters.

The conference will be held at the University’s Belval Campus. Hotels 
are available at Esch-sur-Alzette and Esch Belval (Ibis Hotel). Trains 
departing every 15 minutes from Luxembourg Central Station are also 
direct to "Belval Université" (app. 30 mns by train).

https://wwwen.uni.lu/contact/belval_campus


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