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flavoursofopen, 2 months ago to random

Excellent piece in today's LSE Impact blog by my @copim colleague @simonxix on the recent British Library hack, and why this is just the tip of the iceberg of a completely devalued and underfunded landscape of HE IT (both in HE libraries and beyond) that has been zombified by years and years of outsourcing to cloud services that no-one actually bothers to test for any security-related flaws any more ...

"the institutional devaluing of library technical skills consolidates the power of corporate software suppliers. However, I would further argue that it’s a symptom of genericisation in university management, whereby senior managers value generic management skills more highly than specialised library knowledge. [...] Instead of investing in expanding the profits of third-party corporations, UK higher education libraries could be investing in people and in building their own technical expertise for resilient IT infrastructures and library systems." 👏👏👏

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/03/19/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-academic-libraries/

flavoursofopen, 2 months ago to random

Reading @jonny's recent publication "Surveillance Graphs: Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures", which is on 🔥🔥🔥

"Clearly, on its own, mere “openness” is no guarantee of virtue, and socio-technological systems must always be evaluated in their broader context: what is open? why? who benefits? Open source, open standards, and peer production models do not inherently challenge the rent-seeking behavior of information conglomerates, but can instead facilitate it."

👏

This is exactly why with @copim, we believe that true #openaccess is contingent on community-led open infrastructures, such as @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata

#openinfra #OAbooks

Highly recommended reading! 👇

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

flavoursofopen, 6 months ago to Europe

Public EC tender now live: "Open Source Software technical infrastructure for the European Open Research Publishing Platform" #ORE #openaccess #Europe

"The Commission’s vision, in collaboration with a number of national funders, is that as of 2026 ORE will transition from a publishing platform for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries into a publishing platform for which responsibility could be shared with Member State funders and possibly also research performing organisations. The Commission is herewith tendering the open source publishing platform that will underpin ORE as of 2026, which will be largely based on existing open source software for scientific publishing."

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:737455-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

flavoursofopen, 6 months ago to random

Thanks so much to @signalapp 's Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) and Joshua Lund for this illuminating, clear and really well-written summary of what it costs to run comms infrastructure (in this case, messaging) as a nonprofit and in a privacy-respecting and non-extractive way - and how this is still peanuts compared to what other messenger apps are spending on theirs, while those continue to happily gobble up their users' data to sell to ad agencies and/or using it to train AI ...

Glad to be supporting Signal's model via their donations route.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

flavoursofopen, 7 months ago to random

Next up is Iva Melinščak Zlodi (University of Zagreb) presenting on the "many faces of sustaining #openaccess publishing", and drawing on the work currently being done under the remit of #DIAMAS #Munin2023

Interesting introductory questions explored around what we mean by " sustainability"

Do we understand each other when we speak of sustainability in publishing? - preparatory work for the work package in the DIAMAS project dedicated to sustainability - different backgrounds and experiences of collaborators in the project - no established and well accepted definition of sustainability in publishing - prevalence of using the term in different contexts (related to environmental sustainability or sustainable development goals), even when speaking about publishing | - linguistic diversity (different connotations in different languages)

flavoursofopen, 7 months ago to random

En route to Tromsø right now, to attend and present on @Thoth_metadata and the Thoth Archiving Network at #Munin2023 tomorrow, together with @copim Archiving &Preservation colleagues Gareth Cole and Miranda Barnes ... #OAbooks #archiving #MetadataMatters #

Here's our presentation brief https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7140

flavoursofopen, 7 months ago to random

"The key to our collective survival is our collective knowledge and our willingness to collaborate in good faith. To unlock and utilise the great and growing pool of knowledge, we need to reimagine higher education as an open commons. Scholars are not cogs in a capitalist knowledge factory. We need stewards of the public knowledge commons."

👏🏽 Jim Luke (@econproph) is on 🔥 here - go read his amazing chapter
"Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons", which has been published just earlier this week as an #OAbook with @OpenBookPublish

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

flavoursofopen, 7 months ago to random

🎉 Happy #OAWeek, everyone!

As it's that time of the year again, I thought it might be an idea to dust off one of my older birdsite threads, the reposting of which has become a bit of a tradition during Open Access Week, so here we go... #OAWeek23 #servicetoot

With academia.edu and ResearchGate apparently still being confused for actual #openaccess repositories in this year of 2023, please join me on a brief journey to revisit a number of critical examinations of those platforms... a 🧵

As far back as 2015, @kfortney & Justin Gonder @ University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication noted:

"A social networking site is not an open access repository"

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/

flavoursofopen, 1 year ago to random

😍 at long last, the Experimental Publishing Compendium has been unveilled just earlier today as part of the WP6 panel of @copim 's end-of-project conference!

The Compendium is such a fantastic resource that does not want to only be a database of sorts ... More than that, and building on the research conducted by the Experimental Publishing group (aka. COPIM's WP6) comprising @openreflections, @simonxix, @hardyjuls, @garyhall, @Rebekka_Kie, the Compendium seeks to highlight the rhizomatic connections that exist between tools / platforms, practices (such as collaborative writing, forking, annotating, remixing, etc.), and numerous examples to showcase the interplay between practices and tools / platforms and outputs in the complex and ongoing adventure that experimental publishing can be #OAbooks #ScalingSmall #OpenInfra

Find out more at:

https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/