Open Publishing Awards 2021

Alison McGonagle-O’Connell is Senior Director of Marketing at HighWire Press.

O’Connell’s nearly 20 years of experience in scholarly communications include 10 years working for commercial publishers, and more recently, leading marketing and community initiatives for software as a service providers in the space including Ebsco Information Systems, Aries Systems, and Coko, where she was building the community around Editoria. She’s an active participant in industry initiatives and professional development organizations including the NISO CRediT initiative, Council of Science Editors, Peer Review Week, and more.

Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran is a Socio-tech Researcher, Mozillian, Wikimedian, and VRAR/ multidimensional space enthusiast. She is one of the recipients of the ShuttleWorth Flash Grant awards 2021. Bhuvana initiated the Women In Tech community in India to enable more voices of women who are interested in pursuing a career in tech or want to learn tech and to give opportunities for those who lost their careers in tech due to the pandemic. As part of this initiative she has joined hands with Coko Foundation where the organisation has collaborated to support the members of the community in furthering their careers and interest in advance technologies. She is the cofounder of EmergeAbility, an initiative to make the digital world inclusive and accessible. Her projects of interest range from bridging the gender and technology gaps in Open Source Or Open Knowledge movements and unorganised labor sectors to developing technology products for good. She has also facilitated global events like MozFest, and Hack4OpenGLAM. She has been a mentor at Creep-a-thon hosted by Codam college, Amsterdam. She is one among the International Jury panel for the Wikipedia Pages wanting Photos campaign 2021. She is a state-level awardee in Bharathanatyam and Chess. She is also a performing artist in Bharathnatyam and Kathak dance forms.

Brianna Laugher has been heavily involved in open source and related communities since 2007. She has worked on a Tagalog-English machine translation engine in Prolog and an automated weather forecast generation program in Python. Brianna is a software test lead at Planet Innovation and an organiser at PyLadies Melbourne. She has spoken at various events ranging from local user groups and workshops to international conferences. She is passionate about solving the problems of real users and bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers. She is a core contributor to the pytest library.

Cameron Neylon is Professor of Research Communication at the Center for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. He is interested in how to make the internet more effective as a tool for scholarship. He writes and speaks regularly on scholarly communication, the design of web based tools for research, and the need for policy and cultural change within and around the research community.
Cameron Neylon is a one-time biomedical scientist who has moved into the humanities via Open Access and Open Data advocacy. His research and broader work focus on how we can make the institutions that support research sustainable and fit for purpose for the 21st century and how the advent of new communications technology is a help (and in some cases a hindrance) for this.

Gimena del Rio Riande is Associate Researcher at the Seminario de Edicion y Crítica Textual (SECRIT-IIBICRIT) and Director of Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). She is co-Director of the Digital Humanities Master at LINHD-UNED(Madrid) and Professor at the Literary Studies Master’s degree at the University of Buenos Aires.
With her MA and PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with a critical edition of King Dinis of Portugal’s Songbook (Texto y contexto: El Cancionero del rey Don Denis de Portugal: estudio filológico, edición crítica y anotación. Summa cum Laude), Gimena’s main academic interests deal with Digital Scholarly Edition, Open Research, free technologies and the interaction of the global and the local in the Digital Humanities. She has been working since 2013 in building different DH communities of practice in Latin America and Spain, especially in Argentina, where she founded the DH association (AAHD). She is, among others, the co-founder of the first Spanish Digital Humanities journal, the Revista de Humanidades Digitales(RHD), president of the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales(AAHD) and member of the Board of Directors of the TEI Consortium, FORCE11, and Pelagios Commons. She is vocal at Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas Association, and member of the board of editors at Hypothèses/Open Edition, Open Methods-DARIAH, Revista Relaciones (México), Bibliographica (México) and Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique (Canada).

Jennifer Gibson is the Executive Director of Dryad. Jennifer is also the Chair of Board of Directors for the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). She is a former member of the board for FORCE11 (2018-2020). She has 15 years’ experience, driving openness in research through advocacy and leadership. She has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to explore fresh paths toward accelerating discovery through open research communication and open-technology innovation. She is known for leading teams, designing strategies, and engaging communities of researchers, funders, institutions and publishers. She has beena principal part of esteemed organisations like eLife Science Publications Limited, and SPARC.

John Chodacki is Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at California Digital Library (CDL). As Director of UC3, John works across the UC campuses and the broader community to ensure that CDL’s digital curation services meet the emerging needs of the scholarly community, including digital preservation, data management, and reuse. In addition, John represents CDL in the global research community (funders, libraries, archives, publishers, researchers) and defines and prioritizes new and improved services for UC3. Prior to CDL, John worked at Public Library of Science (PLOS) where, as Product Director, he was responsible for product strategy and led key organization-wide initiatives in taxonomy development, data policy, and article-level metrics. John serves on the FORCE11 Board of Directors, the DataCite Board of Directors and the Coko Advisory Board.

Julia Norrish is a book-lover and publisher passionate about increasing access to the joys and benefits of reading to all, especially the young children. She is the Executive Director at Book Dash, a South African publisher of open, African picturebooks and a previous Open Publishing Awards winner for Open Content. Before Book Dash, Julia was involved in other open-licensed publishing projects in the healthcare and literacy fields, and education-based outreach projects in impoverished communities.

Jure Triglav is a software developer focused on collaboration, previously working with PLOS and Academia.edu. For 5 years he was also the lead developer at the [Collaborative Knowledge Foundation]( a Lead Developer in Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), where he developed PubSweet and led its community. Now he is focusing on WebXR at FRAME, a VR meetings project.

Kat Walsh is a technology, copyright, IP, and internet policy lawyer with the goal of building and maintaining legal infrastructure for social good. Kat is the co-author of version 4.0 of the CC license suite, author of Blockstream's patent pledge, and former chair of the Wikimedia Foundation. Her primary aim is to create a world where everyone can be a creator, a learner, a scholar, and a builder.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s School of Information Sciences. At Illinois, she has also served as Acting Head of the University High School Library, Head of the Undergraduate Library, Acting Coordinator for Staff Development and Training, and Coordinator for Strategic Planning in the University Library. Previously, she was the Library Instruction Coordinator at Illinois State University and Reference Librarian at Parkland Community College.

Natasha Simons is Associate Director, Skilled Workforce, for the Australian Research Data Commons (formerly ANDS, RDS and Nectar). With a background in libraries, IT and eResearch, Natasha has a history of developing policy, technical infrastructure (with a focus on persistent identifiers) and skills to support research. She works with a variety of people and groups to improve data management skills, platforms, policies and practices. Based at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, Natasha is co-chair of the RDA Interest Group on Data Policy Standardisation and Implementation, Deputy Chair of the Australian ORCID Advisory Group and co-chair of the DataCite Community Engagement Steering Group.

Neil Chue Hong is the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the Software Sustainability Institute, and is based at EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. He enables research software users and developers to drive the continued improvement and impact of research software and his current research is in barriers and incentives in research software ecosystems and the role of software as a research object. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software.

Omo Oaiya is the Chief Strategy Officer of the West and Central Research and Education Network (WACREN). Omo facilitates WACREN strategy and business development planning and assists the CEO in implementation and monitoring oversight. Before WACREN, he was CEO of Datasphir, a private sector consultancy offering software development and project management support to the education sector in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. He currently leads LIBSENSE, a pan-African initiative to build the information management capability of librarians and researchers and strengthen local services to support open science and research in Africa."

Pete Forsyth is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. He is the founder and principal of Wiki Strategies As the Wikimedia Foundation's first Public Outreach Officer, Forsyth worked with the vast international network of volunteer Wikipedia contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in using Wikipedia writing as a teaching tool.

Shun-Ling Chen is an associate research professor and the associate director of Information Law Center at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan). She received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2013. She works in fields where society, information technologies and the legal system intersect, including the allocation of resources related to intellectual property law. She spent years studying the development and enforcement of communal norms in online peer production communities, as well as how these communities negotiate externally with established institutions.

Silva Arapi is an Online Privacy and Free Software Advocate. Both her professional and volunteer work consist in promoting technological innovation through open standards, open source software and information security. She is one of the co-founders of Cloud68.co, working to build a sustainable company which makes the use of open source digital infrastructure easy and convenient.

Violeta Ilik is the Dean of Adelphi University Libraries where she is responsible for directing all activities of the institution’s libraries, which includes the Garden City, Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Hudson Valley libraries. She has been a long time member of many open source projects and non profit organizations that work to advance open initiatives. She served as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship), on the Steering Committee of FSCI (FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute), and served as a member of the Leadership and Steering Groups of the open source project VIVO. She currently serves on on the Board of Directors of ConnectNY.