PKP and the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) invite scholarly publishing communities to the PKP Minnesota Sprint, with an LPC pre-conference event, May 13 – 14, 2024.
We are thrilled to announce that the Public Knowledge Project is partnering with the Library Publishing Coalition, aligning our events with the eagerly anticipated, in-person, Library Publishing Forum 2024 at the University of Minnesota. Along with our hosts, PKP Member organization, the University of Minnesota Libraries, we warmly invite you to join us in Minneapolis this May 13th and 14th, 2024.
VENUE | UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARIES, WILSON LIBRARY, 309 S 19th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455
REGISTRATION | To register for the free PKP sprint, pre-conference, or both, please complete this form.
Schedule
PKP SPRINT | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024, 9 AM UNTIL 4 PM
PKP will host a full-day software sprint, where small, self-organized teams work together in an unconference-style event to solve common software issues or to make enhancements that benefit everyone.
As always, software development also involves non-coding tasks, so you don’t need to have coding or programming expertise to participate. Past events have focused on building plugins, documentation, conducting usability tests, and exploring new features. Editors, managers, administrators, and all users are invited. To learn more, check out past PKP Sprints.
PKP PRE-CONFERENCE | TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024, 9 AM UNTIL 2:30 PM
The Public Knowledge Project’s most popular software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), is the world’s most widely used journal management and publishing system, the choice of over 34,000 journals worldwide.
As a free and open source software project that is estimated to serve 60% of sampled Diamond OA journal publishing, the Public Knowledge Project is engaged in fostering a robust, diverse, and inclusive scholarly publishing archipelago through active cooperation and collaboration, ensuring seamless interoperability across different open infrastructures.
Join the Public Knowledge Project in Minnesota for a Library Publishing Forum pre-conference as we spotlight some of the ways we’re an interdependent ecosystem collaborating to enhance interoperability between PKP, our valued strategic partners, and foundational open infrastructures.
9 AM | REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND SNACKS
9:30 AM | WELCOME AND DAY AT A GLANCE
9:45 AM | PANEL I. MULTILINGUALISM
OJS is used in 156 countries in 60 languages, and the software itself has also been translated into 60 languages. Both the Public Knowledge Project and Érudit are committed to enhancing publishing access, quality, and diversity.
As such, decentralizing English and promoting publishing in multiple languages is one way to encourage all of those involved at every step in the publishing process to engage with valuable research that might otherwise be overlooked.
Panel Chair: Sonya Betz, Head Open Publishing and Digitization Services, University of Alberta Libraries
Panelists
Emma Uhl serves as PKP’s Documentation and Multilingualism Specialist, directing the work of the Multilingualism Interest Group, whose work centers around multilingualism, translation, and working with communities as well as institutions with non-English language needs.
On this panel, Emma will share the lessons learned from PKP’s various multilingual initiatives—the good, the bad, and the ugly — so that others can learn how to effectively and meaningfully tackle their own multilingual projects.
Jeanette Hatherill is the Senior Coordinator for Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and PKP to develop a non-commercial, open source, national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research to support sustainable open access in Canada.
Jeanette has an MLIS from the University of Montréal and over a decade of experience in scholarly communication. On this panel, Jeanette will discuss efforts by the Coalition Publica team to encourage best use of OJS for multilingual metadata transfer.
Israel Cefrin is a Library Information Technology Specialist/Developer at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario where he is also a co-chair of the Library Accessibility Committee. He has served PKP in different capabilities such as System Administrator, UX Researcher, and, more recently, Digital Accessibility Specialist in the PKP Systems team.
He has a Master’s in Design and has actively worked with online scholarly communication and accessibility over the last 20 years. On this panel, he will address the complexities and potential obstacles encountered when navigating multilingualism and web accessibility.
11:00 AM | BREAK AND SNACKS
11:30 AM | PANEL II. INTERDEPENDENCE, COLLABORATION, INTEROPERABILITY: PKP’S ROLE IN THE OPEN ECOSYSTEM
OJS journals are embedded within a complex, interconnected network of scholarly publishing infrastructure and data sharing. PKP is one of many organizations building open infrastructure to better support journals’ full participation in this ecosystem.
Join panelists from Crossref, Érudit and ROR for a range of perspectives on how the open landscape can thrive through deliberate interdependence, collaboration, and interoperability.
Panel Chair: Emma Molls, Director, Open Research & Publishing. University of Minnesota Libraries.
Panelists
Marie-Eve Dugas was previously a librarian for 20 years, and joined Érudit as Digital Publishing Officer in 2023. In her role at Érudit, she accompanies and advises editorial teams in their adoption of best practices in scholarly journal publishing. She is also a volunteer associate editor at the DOAJ since 2021, where she reviews journals’ applications.
Dr. Amanda French is the Technical Community Manager for the Research Organization Registry (ROR) at Crossref, where she works to promote the adoption of ROR in order to make information about research organizations cleaner and easier to exchange between systems.
Dr. French is a well-known project director and community manager in digital humanities and scholarly communication, having worked on high-profile community-led projects at The Atlantic, Virginia Tech, and GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
Susan Collins is a Community Engagement Manager at Crossref, where she focuses on ways to help make membership benefits more accessible to the global community through the Crossref Sponsor and Global Equitable Membership (GEM) programs. She also works closely with colleagues at the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on the development of OJS / Crossref collaborative projects.
Mike Nason is the Open Scholarship and Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also the Metadata and Crossref Liaison with the Public Knowledge Project and a PKP Publishing Services team member. He is a passionate advocate for open scholarly infrastructure and a loud supporter of open access.
12:45 PM | CLOSING REMARKS
1:00 PM | LUNCH AND LEARN, SPONSORED BY CROSSREF with Amanda French, Susan Collins, Kathleen Luschek, Mike Nason
You already know that articles need titles, author names, and abstracts. But what can you do to add even more metadata, and why should you go to the trouble?
In this informal session over lunch, we’ll go over some issues, such as distinguishing between metadata and formatting, including advanced metadata elements such as author affiliation, and looking at some of the places OJS metadata travels to once it leaves your system. Bring a laptop!
At the end of the session, we’ll spend time working with you on your own OJS instance to improve the metadata for your own journals.
Kathleen Luschek is a Technical Support Specialist at Crossref, where she spends her days answering technical dilemmas from our members. She previously worked at the University of Hawaii Libraries, managing their institutional repositories and Open Access policy.
Kathleen also spent some time working in Open Access publishing at PLOS in San Francisco. When not immersed in scholarly communications and metadata, Kathleen can be found in the ocean, on a bike, or with her nose in a book.
Please register by no later than April 15th, 2024.
PKP’s preconference lunch and learn session is generously sponsored by Crossref.
