Nicky
Agate
PhD
Nicky Agate leads the library team supporting faculty and students whose research makes intensive use of digital methods and tools, including research data across the disciplines. She is also charged with the development of the Libraries' future Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship--a hub for textual and data analysis, data curation, data visualization, geographic information systems, software creation and management, and web platform design. She is a co-PI on the HuMetricsHSS initiative, a Mellon-funded project to rethink research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences on the basis of shared values rather than abstract value. She is the immediate past chair of the Ivy+ Digital Scholarship Group, serves on the steering committee of the Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
Nicky came to Penn from Columbia University Libraries, where she served as the Interim Director of Digital Scholarship and as the Assistant Director for Scholarly Communication and Projects. In these roles, she designed innovative supports for open scholarly communication; oversaw library publishing and digital scholarship; and supported a university-wide initiative to enhance research computing skills of graduate students and postdocs. In addition, she managed and expanded a digital scholarship team devoted to raising Columbia's profile in digital scholarship and new forms of scholarly communication. Earlier, Nicky held roles at the Modern Language Association, Humanities Commons, and ProQuest. She has played major roles in grant-funded projects supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Nicky holds a doctorate in French literature from New York University; a Master of Fine Arts in literary translation from the University of Iowa; and a Bachelor’s degree in English and French literatures from the University of Glasgow, and she has completed professional courses in UX design and methods in the digital humanities.
Postponed Until Fall 2022
This talk explores modes of collaboration between Indigenous, First Nations, and Native American nations and libraries and archives as they undo settler histories by building networks of relation as the basis for engagement and ultimately the restructuring of library and archive polices, practices, and processes.
About Dr Kim Christen
Dr. Kim Christen is the Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University where she is a Professor in, and the Director of, the Digital Technology and Culture Program. Her work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, information ethics, and the use of digital technologies in and by Indigenous communities globally. She is the founder of Mukurtu CMS an open-source community access platform designed with Indigenous communities globally to meet their unique information, curatorial and data needs. She is also the Director of the Sustainable Heritage Network, and co-director of Local Contexts. Both initiatives provide practical tools and educational resources for stewarding digital cultural heritage and the management of intellectual property by Indigenous communities. You can follow her on Twitter @ProfChristen and her work can be found on her website: www.kimchristen.com
About Mukurtu CMS
Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, narrate, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. The Mukurtu CMS team is committed to maintaining an open, community-driven approach to Mukurtu’s continued development, with their first priority being to help build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust.
