 Wow. Okay, we've got a great crowd of folks and I'm really so excited to talk to everyone today about this project. This community, this emerging platform that we've been working on now for a while. So I'll get started. And For those that just joined, you can see a link in the chat there. If people could keep reposting it again and again for the new attendees, I would really appreciate it. And that's a place where you can Add your name. Tell us a little bit about where you're from. So we have a sense of who's in the room and you can add in your own thoughts under the notes and question section as we go through the content. Great. So I we're here to talk about building an open scholarship knowledge base together. My name is April collaborative Sharon My background is in epidemiology and I've been working in open research and open scholarship now since about 2014 2015 And I'm really excited about this collaboration that we've been working on and there's going to be a lot of exciting stuff coming out Around this work in the next few months. So I'd like to invite everybody to get involved if this seems like something that you would be interested in. So we'll talk a little bit about specifically what that would mean. But first, let's do a little bit of housekeeping and that note document is available there for you guys to add your questions as they occur to you. But you can also use they have this Q&A feature built into the zoom platform itself. So you can also add your Questions in there and at the the last 15 minutes of the webinar. That's our current plan is to have the last 15 minutes to be a time where we'll just focus on those questions and get As many answered as we can. So we're going to start with like a little bit about what the open scholarship knowledge base is And why we're doing it. So I'm going to talk and my colleague Felix Hennigar is going to talk a little bit about the origins of why we're here. And then we're going to dive into how to get involved and help us to make this even better than it's already Become. So we have Aaron Buchanan. We have Flavio Azevedo and we have Megan Simmons. Joining us today. So thanks everyone for coming. So let's start with the what, why and the how of the open scholarship knowledge base. So in short, we're a community and we're a community of people who are advocating for something together a shared vision. So we're working with researchers educators as well as anyone else that's just interested in opening scholarship and our aim is to build a knowledge base and the purpose of building this knowledge base is so that researchers and other stakeholders librarian students Students can more easily learn open scholarship practices and also more easily apply them to their research. So we're focusing on building a platform and a community of contributors to organize open scholarship information, the resources that are out there. That talk about the what of open scholarship, the why of open scholarship, the how of open scholarship. All of these aspects to open scholarship so that people can more easily find the resources that they need and can more easily apply those resources to their own questions and their own problems. Um, so this is an open community. So people can come and they can use these resources, but they can also contribute And they can curate. So this helps us to ensure that we can keep these resources up to date. And that we can create sort of these modular learning resources for people to bring either into a course or workshop or something like that, or for them to learn Um, themselves and like a sort of a self learning self paced sort of way of learning. Um, so the open scholarship knowledge base is a community, first of all, I think the community part of it is really central to making this knowledge base actually useful. Um, it was spearheaded by some volunteers at the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science and it's a community now, a growing community of diverse individuals who are aligned with a shared goal to make learning and applying open research practices easier. Um, and this is working to solve a problem that we have all faced ourselves. So we're trying to solve a problem that we understand that we are trying to solve for our own Um, our own selves and our own community. So researchers, teachers, funders, librarians, everybody who is interested, invested in opening up scholarship is welcome to join the community. Um, either by editing by curating and by contributing to this shared community research that we're resource that we're building together. So we'll talk a little bit more about how you can Join us and how different ways of getting involved a little bit later. Um, but the other aspect of the open scholarship knowledge base is that it's an ongoing project. The project is to Um, curate the existing resources and fill in gaps that exist in an open scholarship resources together to make them more easily Uh, uh, discoverable and more easily applied. Um, and and to to sort of ensure that all of these knowledge gaps are are filled and that people can, um, you know, actually make use of that information for themselves. And then finally at We're building a platform and this is something that we're going to talk a little bit more about In the how and why We're we're going to be creating a community led community designed hub that will contain modular open educational resources um, so we're going to be talking a little later with Um, Megan Simmons from the OER Commons because this first iteration of the open scholarship knowledge base, we're going to bring This work that we've already started onto the OER Commons in the coming few months And that can be a place where we invite you guys to get involved and help us to make that Hub as useful as possible For your needs. So, um, next I'd like to invite My colleague Felix uh, Felix if you want to talk a little bit about, uh, why This project started since you were there from the beginning. Uh, that would be awesome Sure thing april. Um, thanks a lot. It's been a privilege to work with All of you on this project and it's a great thrill to see so many people here today So why are we doing this? Why are we building this platform? I think the common motivation and observation has been that adopting more open and transparent Scholarly practices can be a daunting task for colleagues looking to change the way they work and that's often due to knowledge gaps So there's a barrier to adoption Because many of us might not be familiar yet with the evolving best practices that Change so quickly and open questions can lead to uncertainty and make things harder than they might be otherwise So thankfully, there's really many excellent resources out there already that educate and empower researchers that provide practical guidance and help But it can be hard to keep up with them at times unless you follow the literature closely Or are very involved for example in social media So what we'd like to do is bring together fellow scholars with common questions around open scholarship And the resources that can help answer those questions And so we're looking to increase the visibility and accessibility of open scholarly knowledge And to collect and curate and celebrate the materials that are already available out there And create new ones based on the gaps that we identify So, um, yeah, I think that's our mission in nutshell on what we hope to accomplish And it's great to see so many people on board Back to you April Thanks so much Felix. Yeah, so just a reminder if you have questions Um about anything that we talk about you can throw them in the q&a Um section of the zoom meeting or you can put them into our webinar notes and we'll Um, we'll address them at the end um Great, so I'm going to do super briefly just a little bit what we've done so far For the most part, uh, it's been, um, uh driven by the smaller group of Early volunteers who have, um, you know documented what they think the needs are they've, um, You know, we've we've built some sort of social infrastructure Trying to figure out the best way to work together since it is primarily community led It's mostly volunteers. We have to find ways to Actually keep things moving as people are, you know, able to chip away in their free time So, uh, we hold monthly community meetings and I don't invite anybody who's interested to attend any of those their open meetings We also have subcommittees that focus on different different aspects of the knowledge base That are currently meeting every month as well And we we have communication channels including slack That we're using to to, you know, keep in touch with each other Um, so we've worked to sort of lay out what our goals are to try and stay focused on what we want to do first And as well as what we want to do in the longer term Um, we've developed a code of conduct. We've worked on a metadata schema We started to collect amazing resources already And we've tried to as much as possible engage other groups That are working on similar issues and one of those groups is Going to talk a little later Flavio is going to talk about FORT We've also tried to figure out what would this platform look like what's most important at the beginning as we start to build this so we Wrote some user stories. We thought about the technical requirements and especially the tech subcommittee meeting Lately has been thinking about okay. How do we actually start this as a prototype and We're very fortunate that uh, Megan Simmons is going to talk about what that might look like And um, and what we're might be able to do with this early prototype that we're going to build in the coming months Um, uh, so the prototype is coming. We know kind of what we want to do Um, and now it's the exciting time where we get to actually make it happen So if that's the part of a project that you get excited about too, this is the time to join us Because we're going to be doing a lot of designing. We're going to be doing a lot of playing around Figuring out what are the possibilities with um, actually bringing this into the real world Um, so the purpose of that prototype is to illustrate the value of what we're doing and the promise of what the knowledge base could be So it gives someone people something concrete to engage with To try out whether or not this is improving the discoverability of these resources To see how we can keep improving that prototype to Make these resources more and more discoverable It's a place where we can also author things collaboratively and we can curate the metadata We can tag things we can organize things in ways that make them more easily discoverable Um, and so uh, one of the other steps of this is to create this As a project that invites in a wider community. So part of that is going to be Coming up with processes for people to get involved in very specific ways And to document those and to test them out And make sure that people that come to our community know right away You know where they can get involved and dive in um, and um, we're going to also use this platform as a way of You know bringing in more diverse communities people from different disciplines different regions Hopefully also people authoring in different languages And we're going to be doing in the next few months More events including a virtual hackathon. So if you are excited about these types of open, you know, collaborative Events that's a great way for you guys to get involved. We'd love to have you Join an upcoming event So that's kind of our background. That's how we ended up, you know, where we are today and um, uh, let's go into a little bit about how you um, uh Might be able to get involved and this is the main Sort of purpose of this webinar today is to sort of you know shout from the rooftops that we you know We welcome what you have You know your interests in this area, whatever projects you're working on Um, if there's some alignment there like we we really want to bring in um You know some diverse perspectives. So Please get involved. So I'd like to introduce now Aaron Buchanan who is another longtime volunteer and Tell us a little bit about what you've uh done Aaron and what people can do if they're interested in joining Yeah, so I'm Aaron. Some of you might know me as the stats of doom girl. So I have A very unique interest in this Sort of knowledge base because I've been doing this sort of thing and might as well join the team right so, um joined last year at sips So are my sips sure to also promote because some of our open hackathons are part of sips Which will be free and online for everyone since we can't meet in person Um, and what we've been doing so far is having these monthly subcommittee minis. I'm on the tech committee and so What each group does is work on a specific section of the important components to making this thing work So obviously there's a lot of issues on How do we show content? What content do we need? Uh, so I saw someone asked in the q&a about The quality of content. So there's going to be an editorial group that helps manage Those sort of issues with quality and moderation There's a content based group on what what content do we need? How do we fulfill our user stories and how do we get what the community needs? So not leaving things out that You know, we just don't think about because we're in our own little research areas Uh governance committee, which I don't actually remember what they do, but they do awesome stuff Um and helping manage such a large project because there are so many pieces The tech committee has been working probably the most I think right now I'm also partial because I'm on it But helping pick that platform that will deliver this Knowledge base to you guys And which I think megan is going to talk about at the end. I'm super excited to see it myself But I really want to highlight too that there is no experience necessary In delivering messages Reading messages, you just have to be interested Because having a broad array of people Help us will allow us to Get the knowledge pieces that we may have forgotten about or we don't know that exist But also provide those broad perspectives that really make this a well rounded project Um, so while we have these committees, there are definitely Parts that you can contribute to even if you don't want to join a committee So you'll be able to contribute on the website that we're going to hopefully see the prototype for And or you can join us on slack to contribute to the management side of things So I want to provoke join us any way possible. Come watch us be goofy at sips because I'm goofy all the time And um Help us make this the best product it can be Back to you, April Thanks, Erin. Yeah, that was that was perfect. Yeah, so um There is lots of ways to join You know, you can join if you want some ongoing, you know Ways of like really digging in and helping make this something that you think works for your Interests for your needs for your community's needs. You can join a subcommittee But there's also a lot of other ways to get involved. Um, you can add a resource Um, you can see here this contributor resource. All of these links are also in our webinar notes if you want to find them there Um, so that's a simple way if you know Of somebody who is making really great materials already or if you are Please add them and we'll make sure that they end up in the um knowledge base um, you can also come on and and um, you know, help us review and improve resources. So, uh, You know, once this is like, you know, migrated on to the oer commons You know, there there will be ways and Megan will talk a little bit about this for people to Um remix things for people to um really make something their own and improve upon the resources that exist now As well as um authoring A resource so that's a really exciting thing that we haven't done a lot of so far as a group yet But I know there's a lot of interest in it and there's a big need for that so, um If you want to Join and you know say you want to help us test the prototype you could Click on this link here and sign up there. If you don't know really what you want to do But you just sort of like want to be kept in the loop Um fill out this join oskb link here That's sort of a place. There'll be a little check Boxes and you can pick which things sound interesting and we'll just keep you in the loop and you can join as you Have availability and and based on your interests um So another way I think this is especially important since we're working on building a knowledge base another way of getting involved is if you are already working in a group that maybe Has a lot of resources or perhaps you're aligned in some way with our aims of opening scholarship um then reach out and We'll find some way to pull our resources to work together to make sure we're not doing redundant work And so I'd like to invite Flavio to talk a little bit about His initiative as well as um his experience Trying to work with the oskb and joining the oskb in the last few months All right. Thank you for this introduction April. So One of the ways oskb tends to achieve its full potential Is through partnerships with similarly aligned organizations and projects that Is very broad. So One of the reasons why this is important is to as April said is reduce redundant work Sometimes different organizations have the same ideas roughly or they intersect a lot and instead of doing somewhat comparable efforts Efforts can be made so to share resources in the community that is interested Once there is this aligned projects. So This can Be due to to being on the same discipline for example to different organizations within psychology Aiming to promote sharing data for example, it may be project related say for example Projects sharing the same goal or topic related For example replication initiatives, right? So one Example of this coordination with oskb is fort Just as a bit of an intro in a nutshell fort stands for framework of open reproducible research training Any aims to provide a pedagogical infrastructure designed to recognize and support Teaching a mentoring of open reproducible science tenants That are intended or at the same time with prototypical subject matters in higher education basically aggregating What we learn from open and reproducible science into our teaching So fort strives to be an effective evolving and community driven organization That aims to raise awareness of the pedagogical implications of open and reproducible science and its associated associated challenges Think of curricular reform How we deal with epistemological uncertainty methods of education, etc so fort also advocates for the opening Of teaching and mentoring materials as a means to facilitate access discovery and learning For those who otherwise would be educationally disenfranchised So oskb and fort are aligned in several aspects we think And one in particular That has allowed as a partnership The desire for it is The curation of resources so for fort this means equipping scholars with high quality pedagogical tools For open and reproducible research practices in teaching and mentoring. So we have a given Go that also fits on the same Mission as oskb So for us instructors can then adapt successful and Implemented pedagogies to help ease the tradition transition and to reduce The instructors burden in adopting this new Better educational practices so Uh, obviously oskb has a much larger scope in that respect So what fort is doing so that we can adapt and partner is to Um We are currently revising our 700 resources database so that is compliant with oer Commons, which is the database that they are using Uh, and so that we can facilitate sharing. We are also aligning our metadata meaning that we We enrich our data set and and put it in a way that this passing from one to the other is seamless and we We will also might have a community within oer commons hub, which Ideally will be adding fort resources into oskb As well as enriching their data That is there that other people put but that are that fit the educational pedagogical mission of fort So we will also bring that back, but it will be the same database So that's it and I hope this is useful and I'm really excited for this partnership Awesome. Thank you. So there's some links there. Um, they're also in the notes Where you can learn a little bit more about fort as well as sign up to Work with them. So, uh, yeah, we're really excited about that Um, awesome. So we've talked about it this whole time Uh, we are really excited. This is a very new Sort of thing. It's just the last, you know, a couple days that we've gotten confirmation for sure that This is going to be moving ahead um the Tech subcommittee has been working a long time on trying to think of where this prototype could live at first um, and We're really excited about what We can do with the oer Commons hub. So I'd like to Invite megan simmonds. Um, she's going to talk a little bit about You know, what what it is and what it could do. Um, and she's also if you have questions For her she'll be able to answer them after She finishes her presentation as well So I'm going to stop sharing so that she can Um There you go. Let me know if you have any. Yeah Thank you so much. Um, actually I want to put it on gallery view real quick. I just want to see you all. Um It is so great to be with you all I am such a fan of your work and you all and I'm just really honored to be uh able to support you and in the wonderful work that you're already doing So, um, my name is megan simmonds. I lead training and design for a nonprofit organization called iskme We have one of those wonderful long researchy academic names, which i'm sure you're all familiar with because we originally started out as a research institute really focused on knowledge sharing And over the years our work has expanded and 12 years ago I joined the team to lead our training and design work and Really be a touch point out to our global education community so my role in this project is to support you all and Work with my team at iskme to make sure that we Create something that's of value to your community and make sure people are trained up and have a good plan and You know everything just goes wonderfully and smoothly. So so that's that's that's the hope. Yeah um, and you know, I just want to say to so my plan is to Actually take you into our digital library and show you, uh, you know, what's possible um, but I also before we jump into that I just want to kind of acknowledge the times we're in right now and um, I'm I'm working from home right now in my my house in Santa Cruz, California just south of our offices and um an interesting thing that I'm seeing you know across projects right now is Uh, this real uh desire to connect and collaborate and share and curate resources Which is already kind of what you want to do. Um, but I think this is a really uh special time to kind of catapult this work forward And so I think this is actually a really wonderful time to be launching something like this And you know, we're here to to help you make it successful. So, um I'm going to share my screen right now and actually show you our digital library and my plan is to Just give you a brief overview. Obviously in the coming, you know weeks and months and years Who knows how long we'll we'll be we'll be together. Um Uh to just kind of show you what's what's there. What's possible. I want to highlight a few examples and also Uh showcase really some interesting innovations I'm seeing from faculty and researchers to address some of the current needs and challenges that we're Having right now with school closures So, um, let me just share Real quick my browser. Hopefully everybody Can see uh, okay. Thank you Um, so this is oer commons. This is our digital library. Uh, that has many different tools to facilitate collaboration Uh, we started this digital library. Um, with some funding from the hulet foundation back in 2007 And the hulet family foundation was Uh, one of the first, uh stewards of oer Um, and they were funding a lot of higher ed Uh institutions and sharing and creating full courses and instructional videos and lectures and things like that And they wanted a central place where people could access these open educational materials Uh, and so these are all, uh, as I'm I'm sure you're all aware, you know, these are all freely available You know, either under the public domain or they have some kind of Open licensing such as creative commons and over the years, uh, the site has Changed to adapt to the needs of our global community So if it's been a while since you've been on the site, there may be some new things or if this is your first time This is this is what it looks like today And most people when they come they, you know, do a search here, you know on the search bar Maybe they want to narrow it down by subject or education level Or educational standard We also have advanced search options. I'm not going to go through that. I'm kind of assuming that You all can, you know, do that on your own time But I do want to show the tools that we have to facilitate collaboration And in particular, uh, we developed these hubs a few years ago because People wanted basically their own space within the library to collaborate, curate and share resources together So we basically created wings of the library if we want to kind of compare it to a physical library Where people can, um, come together around a project or if it's a regional effort or consortia To create collections, collaborate in groups, author and co-author together So that's what I want to focus on here today is our hubs. So, uh, this is what we have today for our hubs So maybe some of these, uh, hubs represent your interests or your your areas But, you know, they depend on, we work with a lot of different departments of education for k-12. We work with Different higher ed initiatives. We have some international work here We have some specific thematic or material types, uh, that have projects here And you all will have your own hub soon too Um, I want to just showcase, uh, one in particular. There's a lot to look at here So if, you know, anyone's welcome to poke around and see if maybe there's An area of interest, uh, that I know April, uh, with her background, uh, might be interested in this Nordic University Health Hub They've been doing some really interesting work around public and global health and medical sciences Um, but I want to just show this project that we've been working with with all of the community colleges in the state of michigan And so there's 28 of them and they came together to create this hub Really to address some of their needs they had With transitioning their courses to use, uh, open educational resources And they identified Their, uh, high enrollment courses as a priority and that's what you see here. These collections are Curated resources for their different, uh, high enrollment courses So if this is their wing of the library, their collections are basically what's on the shelves of their wing of their library So this is what their librarians and faculty have said use this for these courses Now in addition to those shelves or, you know, collections, we also have groups And that's this particular hub decided to have groups by college. So each college has their own workspace within the hub where they can collaborate and, uh, So I if we're using the physical library as a as a comparison I see the groups as like a circular table in the wing of the library where faculty and librarians and content specialists and researchers are coming together to collaborate And I wanted to just highlight Lansing Community College real quick because um, they've been doing some really interesting, uh, work with, uh, psychology resources Not only curating them but, uh, creating them as well And their librarian really spearheaded this work Uh, and her approach which I love she said she wanted to curate a bunch of resources and present kind of a buffet To the faculty and say look look at all these resources that have been, uh, you know curated for you You don't have to reinvent the wheel and then work with them to identify which ones would work best for them And maybe what gap areas, uh, they might want to create resources for So she created these folders within her group to start to curate different resources for the different departments And in the psychology department Those of you that are psychology faculty and researchers, maybe you've seen some of these The open stacks, uh, psychology textbook is one I know a lot of people use NOBA psychology has some great resources But they also have curated, uh, and created, uh, their own resources So this actually is one of their faculty Dr. Mark Kelland who He, um, was fortunate enough to get a sabbatical that he could devote to creating Open textbooks. So this is what he created. And so when you click on a resource you get this, um, Description page here where you can see what kind of license it has And if there's, you know, any specific evaluations on here, uh, and then when you view the resource Uh, it takes you directly to the resource this resource was created on the site So you're still on the site. Some resources take you to, you know, other sites or, or universities or, um, other websites So, um, this is his, uh, textbook and, uh, So, you know, you can check it out. It has, uh, these different sections. He also included a journal where he documented His process of creating this, um, and he did this within our authoring tool Uh, so that, uh, it's kind of nice. It's pretty easy if you want to remix this You can just simply click remix this resource and basically what happens is You get your own version of his textbook that you can now edit his original one stays the same But you basically get a copy of it that you can edit and publish and will be forever connected to to mark So, um, I know there's some of you that are creating things. So I just wanted to show you that There are some really great, uh, tools here to support that Um, I wanted to just share one other thing or actually two other things, uh, that I've just seen Faculty and researchers really, uh, step up in the time of this pandemic to Uh, work together to create resources and this particular project is Something that was also created in our authoring tool by anthropology faculty from eight different universities around The u.s. I believe it was initiated by faculty in, uh, at columbia university and rice university and basically what they wanted to do was start to Create mini lectures, uh, where anthropologists faculty and researchers are presenting Their research in short little, uh, video lectures and then also including supplemental materials to go along with that So this is page, uh, her she's presenting Any of you that are into anthropology, I highly recommend checking this one out But she did some really interesting research in Papua New Guinea and she's Presenting that and then she has, uh, some different activities associated with it So, uh, I thought this was a really great example of just how, uh, you know, uh, faculty and researchers are meeting this moment right now to Come together and create something that can be used, you know, across institutions One other resource I wanted to share is the clinical practice support that and this is, um In the spirit of kind of, you know, putting your first draft out there This is something that i'm working on with teacher education faculty. So it's definitely not perfect. This is kind of our first draft And this is basically, um To meet a challenge that now that teacher, uh educators And their students, uh, can't physically be in schools How can we recreate this or facilitate this in a virtual space? So, uh, having them observe various videos of teachers, uh, reflecting on that And then planning using some lesson plan templates. So, uh, there's some really exciting things happening Uh here to meet some of these immediate needs So I know you all have a lot of ideas of what you want to share and I've already done some great work But I wanted to just, uh, share a little bit of inspiration for For how folks are addressing some of these needs So, um, I know I showed a lot, but I just wanted to kind of, you know, give you give you a sense of What's there and what's to come and you all are our fellow, uh Curators, digital librarians and instructional designers and advocates and leaders So we really want to work together with you to make sure That the hub is a good representation and support for your for your communities and what you want to do So, um, with that, I'm happy to take any questions or if you want to see anything else. There's so much to see here Um, but uh, there, um, you know, we'll have more more opportunities to to connect and work together in the coming months Thanks, Megan That's perfect. So we are now this has never happened to me before Exactly on time A round of applause so, uh Let me start with uh, we do have a question in the q&a and then I'll go to the notes and we can take a look and see what people have shared in there Um, so the first question is from david mower His question is uh, do you have a quality filter for allowing resources into the system? Which is an excellent question because it's one of the things that especially the editorial subcommittee And the content subcommittee has been talking a lot about Um, and um, I think Megan can probably chime in a little bit as well about what is already built in to the system, but I think um, the short answer, uh, david is um That we do want to have a layer of some sort of editorial and review in the knowledge base Um, and that does not necessarily mean that we will not accept other forms of content but that we do want to be able to sort of add a layer of You know, you know, this has been reviewed. It's been given feedback. It's been updated It's it's, you know, something that is considered Trusted within the community for a way for that sort of to be um, you know, people can search through those resources specifically um but uh, currently we're we're working through out, you know, where is the line between that and um, you know, having a space for people to Have some rough drafts there for Open collaboration and stuff like that as well. So it'll be a little bit about Being able to organize our materials so people can easily tell the difference between the two As well as know how to give feedback on something that, you know, does need some improvement Um, and so Megan if you want to add a little bit about I saw they had an endorsement feature as well as What else would there is two different ways? Yeah, so there's A couple different layers first is our team of digital librarians are Um, always assessing things that get submitted. Um, and I can share that criteria with you all if you're interested in digging in on that so that's that's, you know, kind of our first line of quality control And uh, you know, just to be clear our digital librarians aren't Uh, you know experts in every single subject and every single thing that gets submitted So it's kind of, you know, a general quality evaluation Um, but we also have, you know, in the spirit of open and OER and open source this crowd source methodology and way that We um Can give star ratings to resources We have specific rubrics and quality evaluation tools from achieve to assess We also have endorsements that people can give so that's something we can talk about If uh, you all want to have your own specific endorsement so that you can put them on the resources and say, okay This gets our stamp of approval Um, we also have ways within the collaboration we do in groups to Put some kind of approval measures in place so that before something that gets submitted to a collection or from a group gets evaluated by an administrator or curator of the group But yeah, you know the spirit of um, you know putting out your first draft and continuous improvement and iteration of resources and peer review And feedback that is so much of what we're all about. So Um, you know, we really try to facilitate that and encourage that because a lot of people could just kind of focus on the resources, but I think one of the most exciting parts of open educational practice is Uh, the shifts that we need to make to improve how we design resources how we collaborate how we evaluate and how we advocate so That's all part of it too. So the materials are really important But I also think the professional learning and development that can happen through shifting your practice to a more collaborative approach is Is where we see a lot of a lot of benefit and value add. So, um, you know, we can talk about However, many kind of restrictions or restraints or, you know, I'm boxes to check Uh in in terms of our workflows once we start to design the hub But that's that's a great question and something to think about if you want to be more kind of open and just kind of see what happens and, you know crowd source it or if you want to, you know, put in some specific You know endorsements or um evaluation metrics so that You know, there's there's more quality control. That's totally it's totally up to what you all want to do Yeah, and I would I would just like to Uh Invite people that are interested in these types of questions To consider joining our editorial subcommittee Because that is the bulk of what we're talking about. We do want to have people who's are focusing on You know, ensuring that the resources are relevant that they're appropriate Well, we will as a community sort of come up with our, you know ideas about what's important And those that subcommittee will be managing a lot of those sort of questions. So yeah, please join Oh, and one other thing. Sorry. I just thought of something else We've seen in terms of authoring and remixing content in addition to Quality evaluation rubrics We've seen people create templates that can be kind of a starter for folks that want to create resources And, you know, we can even have like links and an instruction there to really help guide people in creating high quality drafts And within our authoring tool, I didn't show this, but I'm happy to if people want to see it We actually have an accessibility checker. So for those of you, uh, that are, you know, working, uh, with, uh, you know, students that or colleagues that use screen readers or, you know, need to access content in epub three format That's braille ready. We have a checker within our Authoring tool that you basically click on to check your content and it will flag anything that does not That isn't accessible and give you tips on how to make it accessible and you can either ignore it or you can Fix it. So that's another, uh, you know, quality tool that we've put in place to Help people, uh, you know, think about accessibility and I have to just say from my personal experience I'm not an accessibility expert. I've learned so much in our collaboration. We work with cast and their universal design for learning on this And, um, you know, I always kind of just wanted to make things look pretty but now I know like That's not necessarily accessible. So I've learned a lot, uh, you know, through the accessibility checker just on You know, how to really design something so that my students, um, can can use it Um, so that's another kind of quality control measure that we have in place But I'm curious if if others have, um, you know, kind of other quality considerations Maybe that's something we can talk about another time Um, because we can certainly put those kind of supports in there. Oh, yeah, thanks april and this is just, um A slide with some of the links we have us in our notes to You know, just quickly, uh, you know, one of some of the things that I that I showed But I know we have a few more minutes. I'm happy to, you know, show anything else you want to see or or answer any other questions Awesome, yeah, and and, um, just to follow up on what you just said if people do have things That, you know, from their experience, they know we should be considering when we're talking about You know, uh, curating these resources including quality Um, and you can either join us, you know, fill out that those, um, you know, links that I shared earlier Um, uh, or you can leave those thoughts here in the thoughts and questions as well And because we're going to review this as a group and see what sort of feedback people Um have left us. So let's take a look and see if we have questions in here I'm so excited that there are so many of you interested in this Um, are as excited as we are about it Uh, let's see. Notes, notes, notes, notes, notes Maybe we don't. Oh, here we are. Questions Okay, so this first one There you go Is the fort 700 resources database open already and you've already answered that Right That that was you No, okay. Well somebody else knew I stuck the link in there. I knew where it was So That's great. Okay. So what is the acronym that megan is using? Oh, this is this is why I love collaborative notes Some of the questions can just be answered by the other people in the room Um, so yeah, and if you want to hear more about that organization, I'm sure megan would love to hear from you Um and talk about it Um, would data management training materials be in the scope because there's this awesome Data management training resources from isaap. Yes. So, um, one of the things we've been working Towards and we've actually spoken to these people at the, um, isaap data management training resources clearing house Is one making sure all our metadata is aligned to begin with and two eventually to have sort of our Eventually our platforms communicating with each other So when a new off when a new resource that falls into Um isaap's area of interest comes into the open scholarship knowledge base that that can actually be Like pushed and pulled into their database and vice versa. That's sort of a, you know, a longer term goal for us But the first step is having the metadata be aligned um, yeah, we've talked we talked to them and The other way that we're thinking about aligning with those sort of groups is some of them might want to do what fort's considering doing And being a group within the hub Um, so yeah, definitely want to be collaborating. If you know other groups like that awesome group at isaap's that You know, let us know because we want to make sure we're not missing You know anybody quality control resources Um of resources. Yes. So this is something we talked about a little bit from uh david moer's question Um, we will have a few different things going on mechanisms going on that should um, at least ensure that there's a certain level of You know reliability and guard against misinformation Um, and then within that have some resources that are really more formally um, you know edited and endorsed Um, what licenses does oar common support for materials sharing in this database? That's actually question. Um, Megan. Do you want to answer that? Yes, um, and maybe I'll just share my screen. Well, oh actually, okay. I won't never mind um, so Yeah, so we um, you know our authoring tool that I showcased, uh, you can select uh different licensing um creative commons like I mentioned is one of The most common ones that people use and within using a creative commons license You always get attribution. So that means you get credit and then you can select if you uh want People to you know use it for commercial purposes or if you want to allow derivative works So if you want to allow people to remix and modify your resource Um, we also have, you know resources that are in the public domain. We have Fair use resources in there. We also have custom licenses in there and All of this is in that metadata of the resource so you can you know see the The license and click on it to learn more Um, so so that's how we have it designated um, and we also have You know other like international license like the GNU license um So yeah, I know that there's folks from all over the world here. So if you're using an international license that is You know allows for it to be openly shared and used You're welcome to share as well. So There's not just like one one set of licenses because any of you that dig into copyright There is it's a it's a whole world unto itself But we really try to simplify it in the metadata the description on the resources So it's easy to know how you can use it But everything is freely available, you know, you don't have to pay no login things like that It's just the license may say like if you can You know make derivative works or remix it some of the videos don't allow you to do that But you can use them and download them and things like that. So Yeah, we can do more we can do a deeper dive into licensing too if that's of interest to the community Um, yeah, no, that's great. So I think uh in the last couple of minutes I'm just going to try and touch on those last three questions um The next question is to what extent does oar commons aim to be a global resource database and how is that reflected in governance? So, um, just want to distinguish a little bit the oar commons Uh platform versus the oskb So oskb, we do have aims of being a global resource and in terms of governance governance is still, um, probably are Currently earliest in the stages of working together subcommittee if that makes sense There's a lot of work to do there to make that like to to think in the long term of how do we What what challenges with barriers? What sort of ways do we need to work through to make this a truly go global? Collaboration so if you're interested and if you have experience in that, please You know fill out that form and say you want to join a subcommittee and we'd love to hear from Your ideas on how to do that Open science MOOC Absolutely, this is great as some people um from our community. I've worked on that as well. Um, and part of our greater Mission is to make all of these lovely resources You know to point to them from the oskb so people can find them if they don't know about them Um, and then uh, just quickly. I know this is quick, but we're kind of at time right now Is what aspects of openness do we aim to cover? I think our current focus right now has been on a lot of those things that are mentioned in the question reproducibility data methods stuff like that um, but we do believe in those other aspects of inclusive inclusivity um, and um open approaches to collaboration. So, uh, we want to include those things as well um, and Really welcome if you have experience in those areas are interested in that please Um sign up. We've got these three little Ways of signing and joining. Um, so I really would love to hear Um, you know all of your ideas on what you think uh, you're excited about what challenges you think will face Um, any anything you want to do to to join us. We're really uh looking forward to growing the community um in the coming months Uh, okay, so I know I went through the questions quickly at the end, but um, uh You can shoot uh me an email at oskb at cos.io with any other questions that you have and I hope to hear from uh, you all in the coming months. Thanks so much For your time and thanks all panelists for coming today Uh, you know the year what keeps this, you know going so I really appreciate all the work that you've done Um, so I don't want to go over time. I will leave this slide up And I will say uh, thanks again Have a good day and uh, see you all at the next community meeting