This FLC sparked my interest in the idea of “open production” in science – a way of performing work that hews more closely to the ideals of how science “ought” to work and to some extent a remedy for the pressures at most academic institutions to engage in practices that degrade scientific quality.   Course redesign – Open production I …

This year I have tried to prioritize my efforts to become a more open scholar and to learn to use online tools for my research.  I have had only modest success to date.  Thanks to help from Tim and Kelly, I now have a website in the works: michelemoserdeegan.com, which is now open for public consumption but in need of …

My FLC-related project is the creation of an overlay journal, History of Media Studies. The open-access journal,slated to launch its first issue in summer 2018, is published by the Open Library of Humanities—the Mellon-backed open-access publisher with an innovative library-subsidy funding model. The journal will launch as OLH’s first overlay journal, taking advantage of the brand-new overlay capabilities included in …

There is something about the multiple warnings received prior to downloading free software that gives me pause, and the pause leads to procrastination. Finally, I am neck deep in the QGIS tutorial and I find it both simple and aesthetically pleasing. I definitely see the potential to introduce this program to students, but need to continue to make the transition …

The readings and discussions this year have provided me with the impetus to conduct a census of Trexler Library’s digital archives and special collections materials to assess the openness (or lack thereof) with which they have been shared. As short a time as two years ago, even the papyrus collection, which most clearly precedes any possible claim of copyright(!), was …

My plan was to begin posting student honors theses to the College’s institutional repository  on the DSpace platform, but there are still several hurdles that need to be surmounted before the posting of theses can begin. A survey has been created by the library committee to be administered to all department heads. The survey addresses several points: 1) does the …

My project of digitizing student honors theses is now with department heads who are deciding how best to get the theses to me. I’m working through Tina and the library committee on this. I hope to have some resolution on it by later this semester.

My final project for this seminar will be the creation of an asset map of downtown Allentown using QGIS.  For the last two years I have taught students ArcGIS in order to complete a class assignment that requires them to analyze spatial inequalities in downtown Allentown.  For example, one group of students mapped the availability of fresh vs. fast food …

One of my favorite parts of the open movement is the hope that open resources will inspire others to create new work and to share it openly.  Thus, for my open project I’m going to create a library guide with lists of resources: open art, open film, open data, open textbooks, open literature/poetry (?), and tools for creating open resources.  …

For the Spring, I will continue to work on an issue that has stymied me for years. An mechanism for sharing and collaborating openly using geospatial data. Collaboration is key to many types of research and more research is becoming spatially oriented. Archaeology has always been spatial and frequently collaborative. Yet there are no good tools for collaboration with geospatial …