In partnership with the University of Victoria Libraries and the Faculty of Humanities, UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca) is offering a number of Open Knowledge Practicum fellowships for university faculty, staff, and students, as well as members of the greater Victoria community. For the Summer term (May –July 2020), fellows in this program will join the team in the ETCL to contribute to a well-defined topic in open, public venues, including making contributions to Wikipedia or another Wikimedia project (e.g., Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks).
Participants may wish to: explore an area connected to their study, working with a field specialist; make more accessible some of the work in their field; engage in family, community, or local public history; draw on materials from UVic’s library and archives, create an openly available exhibit of digital material; contribute to online knowledge bases, and beyond. We ask only that you use your imagination to propose something you’d be interested in doing!
Expectations for OKP Fellows:
- have basic facility in the area of proposed work and technologies pertinent to the proposal;
- be self-directed and have experience working toward defined goals;
- participate on-campus, in the ETCL, for a minimum of 3 scheduled hours per week;
- be able to work successfully in a team environment;
- be able to make a 4-month commitment to this practicum.
Open Knowledge Practicum fellowships are based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, an interdisciplinary research organization at UVic.
In application to the Open Knowledge Practicum, please complete this Google form by 25 March.
Please indicate in your cover letter if you would like to be considered for an honorarium related to the fellowship; several are available. Honorariums comprise free registration for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
Please visit our website to get a sense of the practicum based on previous projects and to learn more about the ETCL. Feel free to contact us with any questions!