Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Showcase of Open, Digital, and Public Scholarship

The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) and the Office of Public and Community Engaged Scholarship (PACES) have partnered to host a showcase of open, digital, public or community-engaged scholarship at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder onÌýDecember 5, 2025 Ìýfrom 11am-1pm. Lunch will be provided!

The showcase is an opportunity to bring attention and recognition to scholarship that centers equity, innovation, and community impact.

We will highlight projects with significant open access, digital and/or public or community engaged scholarship components. Representatives from these projects will present their work and generate discussion about the role of open, digital, and public scholarship in our current era.

Join us to learn about the values, methodologies, and unique impact generated by open, digital, and public scholarship at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder!

Projects to be highlighted at the showcase include:

Rooted: The Influences of Ancestral Archives with Femme Youth of Color

Presenter: Lex Hunter, School of Education, PhD Candidate

Mapping Boulder Creek Through the Sensing-Body

Presenter:ÌýMatt Nesselrodt, Information Science, MS Student

Community-Based Social Emotional Learning with Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out

Presenter: Sam Hubley, PhD,ÌýRenée Crown Wellness Institute, Psychology and Neuroscience, Assistant Research Professor

The FLATiron Toolkit Project

Presenter:ÌýDebanjan Mukherjee,ÌýAssistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Program Faculty Biomedical Engineering; Faculty Council Member, BioFrontiers Institute

Slow Your (Sc)Roll

Presenter: Olga White, Media Studies, PhD Candidate

Augmentation of Multivariate Time Series Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Neuroimaging Applications

Presenter: Anna Rahn, Computer Science, MS Student

Criteria for projects:

Nominations to the showcase were judged based on the extent, depth, and impact of its employment of open, digital, and public or community-engaged models of research, which incorporated more than one - but not necessarily all - of the following concepts.

By open scholarship, we mean:

  • Open Access outputs

  • Self-archiving

  • Openly licensed materials (including websites, published articles/books, teaching materials)

  • Open Data

  • Open source

By digital scholarship, we mean:

  • Digital- and data-intensive methodologies including:

  • Digital Humanities

  • Computational social sciences

  • Qualitative methods, including oral histories and ethnographies

  • Critical perspectives of data, media, and technology

By public or community-engaged scholarship, we mean:

  • Scholarship to the public - public lectures, blogs, op-eds, etc.

  • Scholarship for the community - a specific community or “problem of practice is recognized

  • Scholarship with the community - as part of the research, programs are developed with and alongside community stakeholders

A Call to Action:

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"SPARC" followed by red asterisk
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