Dive Into Open Annotation at FORCE11 2017 Summer Workshops

Jon Udell and Maryann Martone from Hypothesis are leading two intensive courses on annotation in scholarly communication this summer at the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Summer Institute (FSCI), a week-long training program at the University of California, San Diego, 31 July–4 August, 2017.

Open Annotation Tools and Techniques is a hands-on workshop designed to engage participants deeply in open digital annotation. 21st Century Scholarly Communication will consider annotation as a connecting layer across the wider ecosystem of current scholarly practice.

FSCI offers courses taught by leading experts covering trends and practices that are transforming science and scholarship, including innovations in standards, technologies, research flows, and forms of publication. The full program incorporates intensive coursework, seminar participation, group activities, lectures, and hands-on training.

Early registration for FSCI ends on 8 July 2017! We hope you join us there!

Who should attend

FSCI is intended for anybody who is interested in the developing new world of scholarly communication: researchers, librarians, publishers, and administrators, faculty, students, post-docs, and funders from higher education and research institutions. There are courses for those just getting acquainted with current trends and technologies, as well as courses for those interested in more advanced topics. Courses cover scholarly communication from a variety of disciplinary, regional, and national perspectives. Courses will be of interest to scientists, social scientists, and humanities researchers. There are courses for those who manage, organize, and publish research as well as for the researchers themselves and end-users.

Courses offered at 2017 FSCI

• Inside Scholarly Communications Today
• Scholarship in the 21th Century
• Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institute
• Research Reproducibility in Theory and Practice
• When ‘Global’ is Local: Scholarly Communications in the Global South
• Starting Out: Skills and Tools for Early Career Knowledge Workers
• Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle
• Open Humanities 101
• Data Citation Implementation for Data Repositories
• Open Annotation Tools and Techniques
• Communication and Advocacy for Research Transparency
• Opening the Sandbox: Supporting Student Research as a Gateway to Open Practice
• The Sci-AI Platform: Enabling Literature-Based Discovery
• Perspectives on Peer Review
• Altmetrics: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed Next?
• Technology and Tools for Academic Library Teams
• Building Public Participation in Research
• Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Managing Digital Projects in Research and in the Classroom
• Software Citation: Principles, Usage, Benefits, and Challenges
• AuthorCarpentry: A Hands-on Approach to Open Authorship and Publishing
• Applying Design Thinking and User Research to the Scholarly Communication Problem Space
• Using the Open Science Framework To Increase Openness and Reproducibility in Research
• Using Wikidata in Research and Curation
• Using New Metrics: A Practical Guide to Increasing the Impact of Research
• How Universities Can Create an Open Access Culture
• Walking the Line Between Advocacy and Activism in Scholarly Communications