Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)
Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)
Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)
Initiated by the British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services, built on the experience of and positive responses received from the open scholarship training programme, which was run in 2023. CHOSN is a community of practice for research support and research-active staff who work in GLAMs, organisations interested in developing and sharing open scholarship knowledge and skills, organising events, and supporting each other in this area.
CHOSN aims to provide a platform to create synergy for those aiming for good practice in open scholarship. This collection includes any outputs such as presentations and webinar recordings resulting from CHOSN activities.
For more information, visit the CHOSN website at https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/chosn
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Item type:Presentation, Opening the Collections: case studies from the University of Manchester Library(2025-02-20)Gallagher, JaneJane Gallagher (Head of Digital Special Collections) will discuss the University of Manchester Library’s experiences of making cultural heritage collections open for scholarship, with the challenges and opportunities which this brings. Working with heritage collections in digital form, we often balance between preservation and access, user demand and service capabilities, Open aspirations and guarded instincts. Considering our audiences, our tools and standards, the potential for collaboration and the opportunities for confronting historical biases, Jane will share the Library’s different approaches to providing and using cultural heritage collections for open scholarship, and consider future possibilities from the explosion of access to AI tools.19 5