Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:04 PM
From: Adam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
hi all
We had the Open Publishing Awards night at Force 2019, Edinburgh last
Tuesday.
It was a great night, with a wonderful air of celebration. The judges
picked 11 projects from the 203 nominations and announced them over some
free drinks and nibbles. Results are up on the site:
<https://openpublishingawards.org/>https://openpublishingawards.org/
Many thanks to everyone involved. It was an inspiring night :)
Adam
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OPEN PUBLISHING AWARDS
Below are the results of the 2019 Open Publishing Awards. We present 11
amazing projects that we hope you both learn from and help us celebrate.
The intention of the awards is to bring stories to you about the amazing
diversity of open projects that exist today in publishing. If you tweet,
blog, or you are a reporter or researcher we hope that you will join us and
use your tools to explore and amplify each of these amazing stories about
open publishing to the world.
Open Content
Book Dash
Book Dash is a not-for-profit, social-impact publisher of South African
picture books for young children. Their vision is for every child in South
Africa to own one hundred books by the age of five. The judges were simply
blown away with the publishing model and how this project leverages open to
achieve such an enormous impact with very few resources.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/book-dash>
Learn more <https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/book-dash>
<https://bookdash.org/>Visit the website <https://bookdash.org/>
Free Tamil Ebooks
The Free Tamil Ebooks (FTE) website has existed for 5 years and releases
openly licensed Ebooks in the Tamil Language (spoken in Tamilnadu, India).
The judges were impressed by the very pragmatic approach Free Tamil Ebooks
took to address a very real need. The project also provides educational
material on open licenses, explains how to approach bloggers to re-license
content as Creative Commons, and provides information on how to use free
software tools (particuarly PressBooks) to make Ebooks. Free Tamil EBooks
is a comprehensive ‘ecosystem’ approach to enabling the production of free
content available in Tamil.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/free-tamil-ebooks>
Learn more <https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/free-tamil-ebooks>
<http://freetamilebooks.com/>Visit the website <http://freetamilebooks.com/>
Upper Limb Anatomy Models
Robin Janson, a Clinical Assistant Professor at Indiana University
Department of Occupational Therapy set herself the task of making openly
licensed bone models so that teachers and students around the world can
make quality, low-cost, instructional models to enhance learning. This is
the story of objects as open content, and how one woman educator is working
passionately to make freely licensed bone models available to help her
students. The story is also a great example of how open practitioners can
build on the value and works created by other open practitioners.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/Upper-Limb-Anatomy-Models>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/Upper-Limb-Anatomy-Models>
Wikidata
Wikidata stands out for its scale and its quiet development of a set of
massive data resources. Specifically when we think about publishing it is
allowing us to connect the millions of research outputs and concepts,
organisations and individuals and to understand how they relate to each
other. Openness and open content are central to Wikidata. It is
fundamentally built on open data and demonstrates the necessity of clear
permissions for building integrated systems at scale. The judges were
impressed by the scale and the central commitment to openness the Wikidata
and the broader Wikimedia community exemplifies and its power to enable a
wide range of communities through open structured data. The impact of
Wikidata is developing but it already underpins a range of tools and
systems such as Scholia, but has also enabled the scaling of other massive
datasets. The potential is significant.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/wikidata>
Learn more <https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/wikidata>
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page>Visit the website
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page>
Open Source Software
Recogito
Recogito is a great example of an open source software project that
considers ‘open’ as more than just a license. Recogito has a very open
model for the ongoing development of the tool, actively involving its
constituency in conversations about what they want to see in the tool. The
judges felt that the tool itself is obviously impressive and has impact,
but including the people that need to use the tool in the development
process has undoubtedly lead to the tools successful uptake and adoption by
researchers. It is an enlightened open source development process
addressing a real use case.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/recogito>
Learn more <https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/recogito>
<https://recogito.pelagios.org/>Visit the website
<https://recogito.pelagios.org/>
Citation Style Language
Citation Style Language (CSL) is simply a very important project for
publishing. It has widespread adoption in important platforms and plays a
critical role in the scholarly publishing landscape. It is also important
in that it is an open source project populated by a diverse set of skill
sets and research perspectives. The judges felt that in recent discussions
about publishing infrastructure important projects like CSL are often under
discussed because they are so foundational to be rendered almost invisible.
We would like to celebrate and highlight the achievements of this very
important project.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/citation-style-language/>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/citation-style-language/>
<https://citationstyles.org/>Visit the website <https://citationstyles.org/>
Matplotlib
matplotlib is versatile and powerful Python data visualization library. It
has been recently used for rendering the first picture of a black hole and
to illustrate the existence of gravitational waves. As with so many open
source software projects, the judges were impressed not by the newness of
the project, but how critical matplotlib is to the current and future open
publishing landscape. If we did not have matplotlib we would simply have to
invent it .
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/matplotlib>
Learn more <https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/matplotlib>
<https://matplotlib.org/>Visit the website <https://matplotlib.org/>
Open Publishing Models
AFRO-PWW
AFRO-PWW presents a complete ecosystem approach to Open Access publishing.
The project doesn’t just publish Open Access woks, it helps projects choose
appropriate open source software for authoring/processing/publishing
materials, plays an important role in training researchers to use these
tools, and then educates their constituency as to Open Access licensing and
publishing options. Further, AFRO-PWW is fully invested in exploring new
digital models for scholarship and helps “scholars navigate the new
opportunities presented by collaborative, multi-modal, and interim phase
works. “ The judges felt that not only is AFRO-PWW interesting in itself
but it is a strong model for filling important open knowledge gaps from
marginalized communities. We hope the model is inspiring and useful to you
and may influence open knowledge projects to come.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/afro-publishing-without-walls/>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/afro-publishing-without-walls/>
<https://pww.afro.illinois.edu/>Visit the website
<https://pww.afro.illinois.edu/>
Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is a born open-access publisher which
specialises in internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed
scholarship across the humanities disciplines in 27 journals. The platform
is 100% open-access, but unlike every other major humanities OA journal
publication platform, it has no fees for authors. OLH is instead supported
by approximately 250 academic libraries worldwide. The Open Library of
Humanities (OLH) is a force of nature. Uncompromisingly open and
collaborative. The judges were impressed about every aspect of OLH but
without doubt their carefully considered Open Access economic model is
comprehensive and inspiring.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/open-library-of-humanities/>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/open-library-of-humanities/>
<https://www.openlibhums.org/>Visit the website
<https://www.openlibhums.org/>
WikiJournals
WikiJournals publishes a set of open-access, peer-reviewed academic
journals with no publishing costs to authors. Its goal is to provide free,
quality-assured knowledge. Secondly, it aims to bridge the
Academia-Wikipedia gap by enabling expert contributions in the traditional
academic publishing format to improve Wikipedia content. However it is the
model that the judges found most interesting. WikiJournals play in the
space between mass collaborative knowledge cultures like Wikipedia and more
contained, linear models that we see in peer reviewed journals.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/the-wikijournal-user-group/>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/the-wikijournal-user-group/>
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group>Visit the website
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group>
OPEN PUBLISHING LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION
Public Knowledge Project
Since 1998, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been developing open
source software for scholarly publishing including Open Journal Systems
(OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP). The project gives academic
communities, including researchers, librarians, students, and staff,
opportunities to develop scholarly capacities with a global reach. PKP has
made a clear and important impact on the world of open publishing over the
last 20+ years and has cut a path for many that have followed. The open
publishing sector, and particularly those in scholarly communications, owe
a debt of gratitude to this essential and pioneering project.
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/public-knowledge-project/>
Learn more
<https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/public-knowledge-project/>
<https://pkp.sfu.ca/>Visit the website <https://pkp.sfu.ca/>
The goal of the inaugural Open Publishing Awards is to promote and
celebrate a wide variety of open projects in Publishing.
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