The McGill Libraries are excited to announce the 2nd edition of its Open Research Symposium. Inspired by the UNESCO Declaration on Open Science, this in-person half-day open research symposium aims to bring together McGill University and affiliated researchers, faculty, staff and students across disciplines who are interested in open data. The event, comprised of a keynote and lightning talks, will also provide an opportunity to continue dialogue on engaging an open research community at McGill. This year’s event will be held in the Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, on the 4th floor of the McLennan Library Building, Humanities & Social Sciences Library.

Programme:

1:00pm-1:15pm: Welcome and introduction

1:15pm-2:00pm: Keynote

• Open data as essential part of open research. On the state of open geospatial data (Tim Elrick, Director of the Geographic Information Centre) 

2:00pm-2:15pm: Break

2:15pm-3:45pm: Lightning talks

• Les romans de langue française sans l'écrémage de l'histoire de la littérature : Romans à lire et la bibliodiversité (Pascal Brissette)
• Have you met OpenAlex? Leveraging open data in scholarly communications research and assessment (Melissa Moreau)
• Open cognitive assessment: Enhancing accessibility, transparency, and innovation (Katie Lavigne)
• Developing open standards and tools for physiological data with neuroimaging communities (Mary Miedema)
• Go and see - Federated FAIR discovery of restricted access data in a clinical research consortium (Sebastian Urchs)
• Zorion: An open source image processing framework for reproducible and transparent image analysis (Rodrigo Migueles Ramírez)
• The shrinking web: Web archiving in the age of substack (Nailisa Tanner)
• Open tools for reproducible and scalable meta-research (Kendra Oudyk)

3:45pm-4:00pm: Closing remarks