Title: Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance. History, Challenges, Practices

Description: https://operas.hypotheses.org/3850

This workshop aims at revisiting digital knowledge infrastructures from an organisational and governance perspective, through their history, their stakes and achievements, as well as their challenges and obstacles. It will explore how these infrastructures frame themselves, evolve and adapt, how they stimulate participation and implement innovative models of governance (e.g. Wikipedia) as well as how they create a shared culture and common values, how they sustain knowledge commons and may contribute to a new epistemology and scientific environment.

How to balance the needs to ensure efficiency and reliability with the capacity to be open to new models of governance, including those who have emerged from the digital environment? How to meet the rising needs of players to cooperate on the basis of personal autonomy, flexibility and opportunity, rather than exclusively on hierarchy and formalism? Acting at the interface of several communities, what governance tools, forms and means of action have digital knowledge employed so far and which ones could they further use in order to satisfy their role of intermediaries, mediators and facilitators within complex environments?

Programme committee : 

• Janneke Adema (Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed, Coventry University, COPIM)
• Suzanne Dumouchel (OPERAS, Huma-Num, CNRS)
• Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition, EHESS)
• Valérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
• Lars Wieneke  (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
• Sherri Barnes (UCSB Library, COPIM)
• Cameron Neylon (Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University)

Practical Information:

The conference should have been held at the University of Luxembourg. However, adapting to the current situation, we are looking forward to welcoming you remotely in the afternoons of September 7th and 8th, 2020.

Date: 7 September 2020 EDT