March 28, 2024
Reflections in Transition: Planting the Seeds for Renewal
By Aloma AntaoEducopia is 18 years old—a milestone year. At this milestone, we’re taking a moment to pause in our journey and survey our landscape and the results of the seeds we have planted, i.e., the communities, initiatives, and opportunities that we have nurtured and stewarded. We have contributed to transformational, systems-level change in the knowledge landscape for close to two decades. In all that time, one thing has remained true: organizational health and organizational learning are inseparable.
Position Announcement: Cita Press Project and Editorial Coordinator
The Cita Press: Getting Fit project seeks a Project and Editorial Coordinator to manage daily project activities as well as provide research and editorial assistant to Cita's Founder and Art Director. The Project and Editorial Coordinator will monitor deadlines, track ...
Educopia Releases First in Series of Community Cultivation Resources
Just in time for Spring, Educopia is releasing its first Community Cultivation guide! Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community’s Purpose is the first guide in our long-planned library of entirely open tools, templates, and guidance documentation to help communities navigate ...
NGLP Releases “Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions”
A core principle guiding the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project is TRANSPARENCY. In alignment with that principle, we are openly sharing all of our findings from more than a year’s worth of deep community engagement research. Our newest publication, ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: On Being “Transformational”
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including our ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: On Being “Caring”
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including our ...
Achieving Sovereignty for Data Curation and Preservation
Forging into 2021 marks an official full decade of work for me in the field of digital preservation, first with LOCKSS and Educopia (2010-2015), then with Grand Valley State University Libraries (2015-2019), and then back with Educopia and its MetaArchive ...
NGLP Releases “Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat)”
Have you ever needed to find a quick, concise description of an open source scholarly communication tool or service? Have you wished you had a way to compare and contrast scholarly communication tools and services based on features like their ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: A Tool to Help Community Leaders Accept and Act on Values-Related Feedback
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including ...
NGLP Technical Development Directions and Request for Participation
Following more than a year of research and engagement with library publishers, the Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) project is pleased to announce its technical development directions. We are now commissioning the build of two components: a cross-content web delivery/discovery ...
Next Generation Library Publishing Releases “Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field”
The Next Generation Library Publishing project team is excited to announce the publication of a report, Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field by Katherine Skinner and Sarah Wipperman. This report explores “values and ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: On Being “Open”
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including ...
Position Announcement: NGLP Technical Product Manager (Contractor)
The Next Generation Library Publishing project seeks a Technical Product Manager to manage the build of several technical components to assist in web delivery and discoverability, content collection management, and administrative functions for managing and reporting on publication activities across ...
NGLP “Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist” Released for Public Comment
The Next Generation Library Publishing project (NGLP) invites community feedback on the draft release of the Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist tools we have produced to assess and incentivize stronger alignment between publishing tools, services, and platforms and ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: On Being Community-Driven
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including ...
Educopia Releases “OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows” and Three Video Learning Modules
Educopia Institute is delighted to announce the release of the OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows. The Guide aims to make the daunting task of selecting, implementing, and refining born-digital archiving workflows more achievable. It was authored by Alexandra ...
Black Lives Matter: Educopia Institute’s Response to Ongoing Racial Violence
Educopia Institute declares our unequivocal opposition to the racial violence that shapes the lives of Black people and our unwavering support for protests against police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, surveillance, and terror. We uphold our commitment to creating community spaces ...
Making Community Spaces Safer: On Hiring and Transparency
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including ...
MetaArchive is Collaboratively Charting a New Pathway Forward for Distributed Digital Preservation
When Community Cultivation—A Field Guide was published in late 2018, the MetaArchive Cooperative figured prominently as an example of a community entering the Transition Lifecycle Stage of maturation. Indeed, since early 2019 the MetaArchive community has undertaken a series of ...
Educopia Research Energizes Communities to Work Together for Mutual Benefit and Maximum Impact
Educopia Research serves as a collaborative hub that energizes communities of players to work together for mutual benefit and maximum impact. Our research activities are designed to support our strong belief that system-wide change can only accomplished with system-wide leadership ...
Broadening Energy and Opportunities in the Library Publishing Coalition
The Acceleration Lifecycle Stage is punctuated by rapid increases in a community's reach, activities, and impact. For the Library Publishing Coalition, opportunities have proliferated across committees, events, and research projects, all of which expanded in 2019 to encompass the community's ...