CRKN is pleased to announce the appointment of its inaugural Researcher Council (Council). The Council has been formed by the CRKN Board of Directors to provide advice and recommendations to CRKN as we prepare a large-scale, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary funding application for the Canada Foundation for Innovation – Innovation Fund (CFI IF).
After a nomination process that saw an excellent pool of candidates put forward, we are delighted to introduce the members of the new Council:
- Alyssa Arbuckle, University of Victoria, Digital Humanities
- Camie Augustus, Vancouver Island University, Indigenous Studies
- Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University, Music
- Sabeen bin Zayyad, University of Calgary, Architecture and Urban Planning
- Dan Brown, University of Waterloo, Computer Science
- Susan Brown (Co-Chair), University of Guelph, Digital Scholarship
- Camille Callison (Co-Chair), University of the Fraser Valley, Respectful Terminology
- Rebecca Dickson, Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), Libraries
- Maxime Gohier, Université de Québec à Rimouski, History
- Jane Griffith, Toronto Metropolitan University, Communications
- Jeremy Heil, Queen’s University, Libraries
- Dan Malleck, Brock University, History
- Kim Martin, University of Guelph, Digital Humanities/History
- Sheila Petty, University of Regina, Media Studies
- Colleen L. Renihan, Queen’s University, Music
- Jada Watson, University of Ottawa, Digital Humanities
“The CRKN Board has convened the Researcher Council to ensure that plans for the future of Canadiana’s digital research infrastructure are designed to meet the needs of our community of researchers,” commented CRKN Board member and Council Co-Chair, Camille Callison, University Librarian, University of the Fraser Valley. “I am confident that this excellent group of multidisciplinary researchers and digital preservation experts will provide us with the expertise and insight that we need to drive forward this exciting next phase of CRKN’s Canadiana platform and collections, mobilizing this critical content for research.”
As CRKN develops the framework for our CFI IF proposal, the Council will be working closely with the Board and the team to bring their perspective as researchers to bear on the project. The Canadiana collection already includes more than 62 million pages of digitized documentary heritage. With this project, CRKN will develop a state-of-the-art discovery platform that will increase access and functionality for the Canadiana collection for research and also bring together content from libraries, museums, archives, and other heritage repositories across the country.
“Augmenting this rich heritage content with innovative research tools based on needs identified by the Council will allow for things like access to machine-readable formats through APIs and Linked Open Data, as well as content curation, annotation, and augmentation,” commented CRKN Board member and Council Co-Chair, Susan Brown, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship at University of Guelph. “The Canadiana discovery platform will become a rich, interconnected hub of research data. Creating this world-class infrastructure will enable Canada’s researchers and knowledge workers to carry out innovative research and discoveries.”
Learn more about the Researcher Council members and the early stages of CRKN’s vision for the CFI IF proposal.