Susan Brown
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship
University of Guelph
Susan Brown is Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship and Professor of English at the University of Guelph. She engages from an intersectional feminist perspective with critical infrastructure studies and the use of semantic technologies for cultural scholarship through the Orlando Project in women’s literary history. Her work explores how online systems for creating, enhancing, and sharing cultural knowledge can support priorities such as collaborative knowledge production, diversity and inclusivity, respectful data creation and dissemination, sustainable access to cultural scholarship, and best practices in research data management and preservation. She directs the multi-institutional Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory platform and the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship cyberinfrastructure project. At Guelph, she runs with colleagues an interdisciplinary major in Culture and Technology Studies and The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab. She is the President (2022-23) of the governing board of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
Presenting at the following sessions
October 04, 2023
3:45pm
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) – long-lasting and unique digital labels for people (researchers), places (research organizations), and things (research outputs) – help disambiguate and connect information across the increasingly complex digital research ecosystem. As CRKN works to advance access to knowledge, we believe that PIDs are key to an efficient and interoperable research ecosystem. CRKN leads the ORCID Canada Consortium and co-manages the DataCite Canada Consortium with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, providing critical support for these PIDs across the country. As these consortia have matured, the timing is right for a National PID Strategy to better coordinate their work and to look beyond ORCID iDs and DataCite DOIs. Please join us to learn more about the existing PID program at CRKN, the work to develop and implement a National PID Strategy, and to hear presentations from our members on the value of a national strategy and use cases for PIDs at their institutions.
SFU Downtown Campus - ICBC Concourse Salons 10, 20, 30
October 05, 2023
2:30pm
We have reached a stage of relative maturity across much of the digital research infrastructure that provides support to the HSS research lifecycle in Canada. However, that infrastructure is still tenuously financed and exists as relatively uncoordinated, independent programs. With the Digital Research Alliance of Canada currently reviewing its 2025-2030 mandate to support digital research infrastructure in Canada, now is the time to consider how we might align these separate pieces together as a coherent and coordinated, and most importantly sustainable, national research infrastructure program. In this session, each panelist will provide a brief overview of their organization’s existing infrastructure and will discuss what the future looks like for them, followed by a moderated discussion on how Canada’s critical HSS infrastructures can work together to improve collective interoperability and sustainability.
Coast Coal Harbour - Coal A and B
