**All times are listed in ET**

Note: Times are subject to change.

Thursday, June 2

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Opening Reception

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.: Opening Keynote: Data Trouble

Featuring:
Miriam Posner (UCLA School of Education & Information Studies)

Friday, June 3

8:00 a.m.: Conference Registration opens

8:30-9:00 a.m.: Light breakfast

9:00–9:15 a.m.: Welcome Remarks

9:15–10:15 a.m.: Panel 1: Data, Stakeholders, and Communities

Panelists:

“Degrees of Openness: Integrating Stakeholder Input, Open Transcription, and Machine Learning to Create Historical Medical Datasets”
Unmil Karadkar (Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care-CIRAC, University of Graz/School of Information, University of Texas, Austin)

“Data or People? Ethical Considerations Regarding Sharing Stories of Enslavement in the Stolen Relations Project”
Linford Fisher (Brown University)
Lydia Curliss (University of Maryland, College Park)

“Building an Open Ethical Data Community of Practitioners in Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Heritage Institutions”
Sophie Ziegler (LSU Libraries, Louisiana State University)

Moderator: Alexander Poole (Drexel University)

10:15 a.m–10:45 a.m.: Coffee Break

10:45 a.m–11:45 a.m.:  Panel 2: Spatial Data, Social Justice

Panelists:

“Reconnecting Indigenous and Public Land Histories with Open Data”
Robert Lee ( University of Cambridge)

“Redlining Data in the Era of Black Lives Matter”
Robert Nelson (Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond)
Justin Madron (Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond)

“Reclamation through Digitization: An examination of the Reclaiming Heritage Project
Kimberly Toney (American Antiquarian Society)
Lydia Curliss (University of Maryland, College Park)

Moderator: Synatra Smith (Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives and Temple University Libraries Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio)

12:00–1:00 p.m.: Lunch on one's own

1:00–2:00 p.m.: Panel 3: Historic Open Data

Panelists:

“Confronting and Reconceptualizing Early American Historical Datasets: Analyzing Yellow Fever Mortality Data from 1793”
Molly Nebiolo  (Northeastern University)

“Recovering and Reusing Historical Data: Investigating Data Curation Practices Across Disciplines”
Amanda Sorensen (University of Maryland, College Park)
Katrina Fenlon (University of Maryland, College Park)
Camila Escobar-Vredevoogd (University of Maryland, College Park)

“Difficult Datasets in Digital Realms”
Corey Johnson (Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Moderator: Peter Logan (Temple University)

2:00–2:30 p.m.: Coffee Break

2:30–3:30 p.m.: Panel 4: Data Tools

Panelists:

“Open Data, Open Margins: A Smart Data Case Study to Expand Access and Discovery in the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts”
L.P. Coladangelo (College of Communication and Information, Kent State University)
Lynn Ransom (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

“Toward an Open Access HTR program for Early Modern Paleography”
Holly Brewer (University of Maryland)

Moderator: Stewart Varner (Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)

3:30-3:45 p.m.: Break

3:45-4:45 p.m.: Wrap-up discussion

4:45-5:30 p.m.: Closing Reception

Papers are now available for download. Please register to receive the password to download the papers.

Papers are not to be cited or circulated without the written permission of the author.

Please contact Adrianna Link at [email protected] if you are attending the conference but have not yet received the password.

"Open Data: Reuse, Redistribution, and Risk" will be held in-person on June 2-3, 2022. The event will be held in Benjamin Franklin Hall (427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106). All sessions will also be live-streamed.

Please register using the link to the left. 

Old City Hotels:

There are several hotels within walking distance as well as many within a short ride by public transit, taxi, or Uber. Addresses and contact information are below. The hotels listed here represent accommodations in Old City, Philadelphia. There are many additional options in other areas of the city including Center City and Rittenhouse Square. Philadelphia is also served by Airbnb and other accommodation sharing sites.

Renaissance Philadelphia Downtown Hotel (Marriott)
401 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Reservations: 215-925-0000

Hotel Monaco (Kimpton)
433 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Reservations: 855-295-BELL
Hotel: 215-925-2111

Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District
400 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-923-8660

Philadelphia Marriott Old City Hotel
1 Dock Street (Between 2nd and Walnut Streets)
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-238-6000

Best Western The Independence Park Hotel
235 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-922-4443

APS Addresses: The conference will take place in the APS’s Franklin Hall, located at 427 Chestnut Street. The Library is located at 105 South Fifth Street, and the APS Museum is housed across the street from the Library, in Philosophical Hall at 104 South Fifth Street. 

Planes: The Philadelphia International Airport is 12 miles from the American Philosophical Society and is served by most major domestic and many international airlines. Philadelphia is a regional hub for American Airlines.

Ground Transportation from Airport: The airport is connected to Philadelphia through a network of public transit, rental cars, taxis, and private car services. In addition, rideshare services can be booked for transport to and from the airport. More information on specific modes of transport can be found on the airport’s website.

Trains: Philadelphia has an Amtrak station and is on the busy Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. Both Northeast Regional and Acela trains stop at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. In addition, the Keystone, an east-west Amtrak route, stops several times a day in Philadelphia.

Automobiles: The American Philosophical Society is easily reached by I-95, 676, and the 76/Schuylkill Expressway.

Parking: There are several parking garages within a convenient distance from the APS. The Bourse Garage is the closest facility, at 4th and Ranstead Streets. Additionally, there are garages at the Independence Visitor Center and the National Constitution Center.

Buses: Many bus companies in the Northeast serve the Philadelphia area including Bolt Bus, Mega Bus, and Greyhound. Bolt Bus and Mega Bus arrive at 30th Street Station, which is a short ride away from the APS. The Greyhound station is between 12th and 13th Streets, just behind the Jefferson Station SEPTA stop.

Public Transportation in Philadelphia: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is the major public transportation provider in the Philadelphia region. SEPTA runs Regional Rail lines through the city to the outlying suburbs and the airport. The Market-Frankford Line stops every couple of streets in Center City and runs out to West Philadelphia, by the University of Pennsylvania. SEPTA also runs trolley lines and buses throughout the city. Schedules, maps, fares, and additional information about the public transit system in Philadelphia can be found on their website.

The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum invites scholars in all fields to submit paper proposals for a daylong interdisciplinary symposium that will explore the opportunities and challenges of open data and digital humanities. As institutions have made datasets accessible for re-use, remixing, and redistribution, individuals have been able to produce new useful knowledge beyond restrictions or control. Classrooms and Digital Humanities projects have created powerful visualizations and complex analyses which shed new light on important historic and contemporary issues. Yet the increasing availability of these sources has raised important questions about intellectual property, attribution, labor, and data sovereignty. 

The symposium is inspired by the Open Data Initiative (https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/data) of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society. This initiative has created freely accessible datasets (https://github.com/AmericanPhilosophicalSociety) from the APS’s Library & Museum holdings, including the Eastern State Penitentiary Records of Admissions, 1838-1850; Benjamin Franklin's Ledgers; Records of Indentures and Apprenticeships in the Port of Philadelphia, 1771-1773; Benjamin Franklin's Accounts; and James Madison's Montpelier Meteorological Records, 1784-1793, as well as various digital humanities projects derived from this data. See more here (https://www.amphilsoc.org/center-digital-scholarship#paragraph-395).

The APS’s Library & Museum invites innovative proposals from scholars for this symposium. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Historical perspectives on the use and access to data;
• Papers that explore the opportunities and challenges of different types of data, including the ways in which scholars from all fields are using open data and applying its insights as well as the misuse and manipulation of open data;
• The relationship between open data and intellectual property rights, copyright, licenses, and other use-restrictions;
• Privacy, sovereignty, and open data;
• Data ethics;
• Social implications of automation and data-centered technologies;
• Labor practices and open data;
• New technologies and tools, such as artificial intelligence, linked open data, and machine learning;
• New scholarship derived from open data;
• The ability for open data and the digital humanities to uncover marginalized voices;
• Sustainability.

Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by January 21, 2022 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/98433

Decisions will be made by February 2022. 

The symposium will be held in-person June 2-3, 2022. All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and pre-circulated to registered attendees. Papers should be no longer than 15-double spaced pages. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Transactions, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.

For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/, or contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at [email protected].