The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and University of Victoria Libraries invite you to an upcoming virtual talk by 2021–22 Honorary Resident Wikipedian, Nastasia Herold (University of Leipzig), with Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw First Nation), on Ethics and Responsibilities of Open Access and its Realization in the Atikamekw First Nation’s Wikipedia. The talk will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 9:00am–10:00am Pacific Time / 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern time and is free and open to all.
Event description:
Manuscripts, recordings, photographs, whole databases – all this can be legally protected, and this protection needs to be taken account when planning and realizing an open access project. But there is more than legal restrictions. Where does the data come from? Who is heard or seen in the data? Who were the informants, the interviewees? Can the open publication of the data offend an individual or a whole group of people? Ethical issues and our own responsibility (should) play an important role in open access discussions and open access research. On the basis of our own experience within the creation of a Wikipedia for the Atikamekw First Nation (https://atj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitikowin), this talk aims to introduce the audience to an open access project managed and determined (within the rules of the Wikimedia Foundation) by community members whose knowledge is published in the project. We will answer Rehbein’s and Thies’ (2017: 355) question they developed as a schema for questions of responsibilities and ethics of a specific project: “Who (1) is responsible for what (2) to whom (3) before which instance (4) according to which standards (5)?”
Registration is required. This talk will be of interest to folks who work at the intersection of DH and libraries for its exploration of the ethical concerns of engaging in public-facing, open access, community engaged, and digitally-inflected knowledge production.