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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We had sent you this call for contributions (below) a few months ago. The workshop has to move on line on 7 and 8 september 2020 (see </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://operas.hypotheses.org/3850)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,
but we sincerely hope this won’t prevent you from submitting a proposal (there is a few days left). We are looking forward to reading you !</span></div>
<div class="AppleOriginalContents" style="direction:ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best wishes, </span></div>
<div class="AppleOriginalContents" style="direction:ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Valérie Schafer<br>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN" class="" style="font-size:16pt">Call for Contributions </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt">Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance.</span><a name="x__7dy4tk5f5ayx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class=""></a><span class="" style="font-size:16pt"></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt">History, Challenges, Practices</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="" style="font-size:14pt; line-height:21.466665267944336px">University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 7-9 September 2020</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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 </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://operas.hypotheses.org/" class="">https://operas.hypotheses.org</a></span><span lang="EN" class="" style="background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">) </span><span lang="EN" class="">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. </span><span lang="EN" class=""></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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 ?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Relevant topics may include but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• History of digital knowledge infrastructures</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">• </span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">History, evolution and analysis of specific concepts such as accountability in governance, liquid democracy, etc., as well as proposals to go
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Critical review of innovative modes of governance in distributed organisations or/and in the digital area</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Field studies of innovative governance in chosen public and private organisations and their practices </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Field studies of innovative governance in creating and maintaining knowledge commons </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Critical testimonies on the implementation or experiments with new modes of governance</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Presentation and analysis of online decision-making tools (wiki, blockchain, e-voting, etc.) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">• Prospective outlook on the governance of knowledge and research infrastructures </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">In order to leave time for a variety of exchanges, demonstrations, scientific interventions and experience feedbacks we invite proposals for:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* 15-minutes presentations </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* Posters and demos with accompanying 5-minutes lightning talk</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* Tutorials focused on tools, technologies, or practical exercises (from 30 minutes to 1 hour depending of the project)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Proposals for: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* Presentations must be submitted as an abstract of 500 words max</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* Posters must be submitted as an abstract between 200 and 300 words</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">* 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</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">All proposals should include a title and a short biography of the applicant(s). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">All submissions are due by May 20, 2020. Feedback on acceptance will be given no later than June 10, 2020. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Send submissions at :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:valerie.schafer@uni.lu" class="">valerie.schafer@uni.lu</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">To learn more on the OPERAS : <a href="https://operas.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://operas.hypotheses.org</span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Programme committee : </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Janneke Adema (Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed, Coventry University, COPIM) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Suzanne Dumouchel (OPERAS, Huma-Num, CNRS)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition, EHESS)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Valérie Schafer (C<sup class="">2</sup>DH, University of Luxembourg)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Lars Wieneke (C<sup class="">2</sup>DH, University of Luxembourg)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Sherri Barnes (UCSB Library, COPIM)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Cameron Neylon (Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">Practical Information:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class="">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).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://wwwen.uni.lu/contact/belval_campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">https://wwwen.uni.lu/contact/belval_campus</a></span></div>
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