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 

Please note that the conference program is subject to updates as we finalize the lineup of speakers.

09:30  Registration

10:00  Welcome remarks

10:10  Opening keynote panel: Cross disciplinary approach to open scholarship

• Paola Castano, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter
• Hugh Shanahan, Professor of Open Science at the Royal Holloway University of London
• Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London

10:50  Equity and inclusivity in the age of Artificial Intelligence

• Jeni Tennison, Executive Director of Connected by Data.
• Gillian Daly, Executive Officer, at the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL)

11:40  Break

12:10  Deepening partnership through shared values

• Ed Jewel, President of Libraries Connected.
• Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Reader at the University of Brighton.

13:00  Lunch

13:45  Open repositories for research of all kinds

• Joe Padfield, Principal Scientist at the National Gallery
• Eloy Rodrigues, Director at the University of Minho Libraries and Executive Board member at OpenAIRE
• Paul Walk, Director at Antleaf Ltd.

14:45  Break

15:15  Enabling collections as data: from policy to practice 

• Gustavo Candela Romero, Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante

16:15  Closing keynote speech: Future role of libraries as open and inclusive digital (and physical) spaces

• Erik Boekesteijn, Member of Board of Directors at the Storyhouse and Senior Advisor at the National Library of the Netherlands

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].