28 August 2024
Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship
British Library is delighted to host its annual Open and Engaged Conference on Monday 21 October, in-person and online, as part of the International Open Access Week. The Conference is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Research Libraries UK (RLUK).
Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship will centre leveraging the power of communities in the axis of open scholarship, open infrastructure, emerging technologies, collections as data, equity and integrity, skills development and sustainable models to elevate research of all kinds for the public good. We take a cross sectoral approach to the conference programme – unifying around shared-values for openness – by reflecting on practices within research libraries both in higher education and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sectors as well as the national and public libraries.
Open and Engaged 2024 is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Research Libraries UK (RLUK). Everyone interested in the conference topics is welcome to join us on Monday, 21 October!
This will be a hybrid event taking place at the British Library’s Knowledge Centre in St. Pancras, London, and streamed online for those unable to attend in-person.
The event will be recorded and recordings made available in the British Library’s Research Repository.
Registration
Please register for Open and Engaged 2024 by filling out this form. Registration will close on Friday 4 October for in-person attendance and Thursday 17 October for online attendance at 18:00 BST.
Registrants will be contacted with details for either in-person attendance or a link to access the online stream closer to the event.
Provisional Programme
09:30 Registration for in-person attendees
10:00 Welcome remarks
10:10 Opening keynote panel: Cross disciplinary approach to open scholarship
- Dr Paola Castaño, Research Fellow, University of Exeter
- Hugh Shanahan, Professor of Open Science, Royal Holloway University of London
- Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London
10:50 Equity and inclusivity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)
11:40 Break
12:10 Enabling collections as data: From policy to practice
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Open repositories for research of all kinds
15:15 Deepening partnership through shared values
16:15 Closing keynote: Future role of libraries as open and inclusive digital (and physical) spaces
16:45 Closing remarks
17:00 Networking session
19:00 End
The hashtag for the event is #OpenEngaged on social media platform of your choice. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].