WG1 Workshop on Women and Minorities OERs
Attendance Type: Hybrid
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, Austria)
Date: 22-23/09/2025, 10:00-18:00
Main organizer: Alexandra Tatar
Description
The GRADE workshop in Vienna, Austria will be dedicated to the work done by the WG1 Women and Minorities SIG. The work of the group is focused on the underrepresented actors in the histories of creative computing in Europe (T 1.3.) and developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) on this topic (D 1.3.) The 1st day of the workshop is designed to offer a platform for GRADE members contributing to the development of OERs, to discuss: a) the output of their case studies, as well as b) their experience with data collection, data organization, and data interpretation challenges. The 2nd day will focus on methodology and practice of developing and disseminating OERs (e.g. via open access repositories, including Wikimedia Commons). The main target audience are the Women and Minorities SIG members seeking practical knowledge on open science content generation and best practice guidelines on dealing with sensitive data. Furthermore, the workshop is open to YRIs and Action members from ITC countries, as well as grassroots hobbyist historians (across all WGs) interested in the OER development.
Output
Participants will learn how to organize data collected through oral-history interviews, archival research, and secondary-source surveys for use in educational purposes. The workshop will emphasize practical skills, such as organizing interview transcripts, thematic interview coding, popular science writing and its multistakeholder dissemination – in line with the COST strategic priority to follow the principles of open science and, specifically: a) Wikimedia Commons format as well as b) OER Vision Statement and toolkit developed by the UnaEuropa University alliance in alignment with the UNESCO OER Recommendation, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Commission’s work (https://www.una-europa.eu).
Grant Agreement Period Goals to be addressed:
GAPG5. To continue development of promotion of career development and networking of YRIs into the Action, especially under-represented innovators (global majorities, women, LBGTQI+) in and across the domain.
GAPG6. To continue identification, communication and development with under-represented actors in the grassroots of creative computing and isolation of accordant research ‘blindspots’ to be interrogated through the Action, through targeted research priorities.
MoU objectives: Research Coordination 1 and 3, Capacity Building 1 and 2
Science and Communication Plan aims: disseminating Action results across MoU shortlisted stakeholders
Image: Cartolina da Vienna – K. k. Prater, Hauptallee mit Riesenrad by Luigi Meula – Europeana 1914-1918, Europe – CC BY-SA.