Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge?
Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge?
Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge?
This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
Through keynotes, panels, presentations and lightning talks, the programme addresses questions of ownership and stewardship in the areas of practice-research, cultural heritage data, open infrastructure, and emerging technologies. By bringing together GLAM professionals, librarians, curators, technologists, and community partners, the conference invites participants to reimagine ownership as a shared, equitable, and inclusive endeavour.
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Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Introducing the Enact Practice Research Data Service(2025-10-23)Molloy, SarahThe Enact: PRVoices and SPARKLE phase 2 project launched on 01 October 2025. Funded by AHRC as part of the iDAH programme, the project's mission is to deliver a function-rich, intuitive, and beautiful digital space to preserve, share, and fully account for the insights in artistic works and the processes for their creation. The project team comprises partners from domain and disciplinary backgrounds working in collaboration.1 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Activating open solutions for more equitable access to heritage in the digital environment(2025-10-20)Vezina, BrigitteToo often, access to heritage is blocked by unnecessary barriers, from wrongful copyright claims and technological locks to prohibitive fees. These obstacles prevent people from meaningfully connecting with their own history, leaving critical pieces of our shared culture out of reach. Yet, access to heritage is vital for cultural participation, creativity, and sustainable development. The Open Heritage Statement is a collective response to these barriers. Developed by the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), convened by Creative Commons, it unites more than 60 organizations across 25 countries and 13 global networks. The Statement supports UNESCO's efforts to promote open access to cultural heritage in line with its normative work on cultural rights, digital transformation, knowledge sharing for sustainable development, and its founding commitment to the free flow of ideas. In this presentation, we will talk about the various barriers to access and share examples of good practice to remove them, and call on interested parties to sign the Open Heritage Statement and promote its wide adoption.3 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), DE-BIAS: Detecting and contextualizing biased language in metadata(2025-10-20)Rose, KristinaCultural heritage institutions in Europe and beyond have been undertaking work to describe and catalogue the historical objects in their collections for decades. However, once created, catalogue data are rarely updated to reflect changes in language and society. As a result, many object and collection descriptions that once fit into popular social narratives in some cases use language that is offensive, inappropriate or even harmful. The DE-BIAS project developed a tool and frameworks to detect, address and contextualize biassed language in cultural heritage collections' metadata.3 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), The path to open: premises and achievements after more than a decade of OpenCitations(2025-10-22)Peroni, SilvioIn this talk, I will introduce what are the main aspects characterising OpenCitations, a community-based Open Science infrastructure dedicated to the publication of bibliographic metadata and citation data. In particular, I will focus on the crucial premises that have laid the groundwork for enabling the opening of citation data and the steps that have characterised the evolution of OpenCitations from a university research project to the scholarly infrastructure we know today.4 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Implementing CARE Principles: Indigenous Data Governance using the Local Contexts Hub(2025-10-22)Rojas, AshleyLocal Contexts is a global non-profit that provides Indigenous communities with tools to reassert sovereignty and cultural authority in collections and data. In an increasingly complex legal, social, and cultural environment, the Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels offer Indigenous communities a way to add cultural and historical context and cultural authority to cultural heritage content in their own local digital heritage archives and in digital archives, libraries, museums and other digital repositories globally. Local Contexts supports institutions and researchers to disclose Indigenous rights and interests. Local Contexts will give an overview of the Traditional Knowledge Labels, Biocultural Labels, Notices, and Hub. The Local Contexts Hub enables the customization of Labels and the application of Notices directly to Indigenous data. The Hub works with already existing information/collections management systems and tools by generating Labels and Notices that can be added to already existing catalog and collections management systems.1 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Cultivating Cultural Heritage Research: Growing the Shared Repository Service for GLAM institutions(2025-10-23)Basford, JennyThe Shared Repository Service for GLAM sector institutions turns eight in spring 2026, and with this comes a new phase of growth: to scale the Service up to provide an institutional repository for as many research-producing organisations as possible. From organisations with worldwide recognition, to smaller but by no means lesser institutions, the SRS is committed to expanding over 2026-2029 to incorporate a minimum of 25 partners. This talk will give a short history of the SRS, a description of the platform itself and how we propose to grow the Service.1 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Repository services for Archaeology, and Conservation and Heritage Science(2025-10-23)Evans, TimThe talk will provide a short overview of the ADS which since 1996 has been the leading digital archive for data from UK-based archaeological fieldwork and research. The talk will also showcase the new HSDS. Launched in October 2024 the HSDS provides core digital research services as part of the UKRI RICHeS programme, to unlock potential for innovation in heritage science and conservation research and its capacity to advance understanding, preservation, and management of UK heritage.4 10 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), SRC and SciOp -- Safeguarding digital artefacts under threat(2025-10-22)Waites, WilliamWhen the current US administration took power this past January there was an alarming ideologically motivated campaign of removing, altering or restricting access to government data and web sites, particularly those relating to public health, climate change and/or gender. In response, community efforts arose to prevent this vital information from falling down the memory hole. Safeguarding Research and Culture is one such effort and SciOp is a new kind of data catalogue and distribution infrastructure -- one that is decentralised so that no single entity can deprive us of our collective memory.5 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Long Walk Home: creating, sharing and using community generated digital heritage at scale(2025-10-23)Hughes, Lorna M.Lorna gave the closing keynote presentation. From 2021-25, the Our Heritage, Our Stories (OHOS) project was funded through the AHRC’s Towards a National Collection Programme to explore ways that the UK’s rich, fragmented, and vulnerable collections of community generated digital heritage can be made open, linked, and shared. The project explored way that technology design can empower communities to tell their own stories, on their own terms. The talk will discuss practical insights from OHOS, and situate the project in the broader conceptual framework of critical digital heritage. It will discuss both current digital ecosystems of community heritage, and emerging digital afterlives for CGDC that enable this content to complement, current and contradict official historical narratives.2 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia(2025-10-20)Devouard, FlorenceDecolonising knowledge on the internet requires a critical examination of the practices, structures, and sources, while actively addressing power imbalances. It is a collective and global effort that necessitates collective reflexion, shared learning, and engagement from volunteers, researchers, professionals, and cultural institutions to foster a more inclusive and representative knowledge ecosystem that reflects diverse cultures, identities, and experiences. The topics of decolonising knowledge, provenance, migration, care principles, underrepresented communities, biases and misrepresentations are an important entry point to engage new contributors and GLAMs in the Wikimedia project, and trigger this presentation. This session will highlight some existing challenges but also identify practical recommendations and actionable strategies for fostering a more just and representative digital knowledge space.1 12