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Meeting #1: May 21, 2019
Infrastructure, Tools, and Sustainability
Infrastructure, Tools, and Sustainability
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<p><strong>Note: </strong>The original scope of this theme was Infrastructure and Tools. Sustainability was a separate theme, but the <a class="confluence-link" href="/confluence/display/open2020/Sustainability+and+Incentives" data-linked-resource-id="135929599" data-linked-resource-version="9" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Sustainability and Incentives" data-base-url="https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence">recommendation of the Sustainability and Incentives team</a> was to integrate it with Infrastructure and Tools, </p><p><strong>Meeting #1</strong>: Define key questions/considerations on this theme which the Open 2020 Working Group should address.</p><p><strong>Team</strong>: <span><span>Nicole Allen, Nichole Saad, Peter Suber, Ross Mounce, Amy Brand, Mark McBride, Sharon Leu, Brianna Schofield</span></span></p><p>Who else should be part of the infrastructure conversation?</p><ul><li>Voices from the global south</li><li>Funders, especially if they understand interoperability</li><li>Coders, such as CoKo (Kristen Ratan), and someone with history in major open ed tech developments (e.g., Kim Thanos)</li><li>Students/users</li><li>People who specialize in robust preservation</li></ul><p>What are the work products?</p><ul><li>We need an inventory of existing OER tools and platforms, including licensing. This could be included as part of the IOI census.</li><li>Best practices in contracting with proprietary platforms</li><li>Value proposition for why you should use open infrastructure</li><li>Outline of consortial ownership model for relevant infrastructure</li><li>Openness metric/index</li><li>"Almetric" styles indicators of OER usage/uptake</li><li>Standard format for syllabi (e.g., to support Open Syllabus Project and interoperability)</li></ul><p>What are the core questions?</p><ul><li>Sustainability: what is the role of the academy? How to move beyond well-meaning volunteerism? How to weigh and the pros and cons of proprietary alternatives, and service providers for open source solutions?</li><li>How do we learn from the failures of the past in open infrastructure? When should we be willing to compromise?</li></ul><p>Definitions</p><ul><li>What do we mean by infrastructure, which is a layered stack? Platforms, software, tools. standards, metadata. What about pure content – is it infrastructure too? Not clear, need to distinguish "particle" and "wave" forms of content. Perhaps we're really talking about <strong>digital infrastructure</strong> here.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Examples of OER Sustainability:</p><p><a href="https://oer.suny.edu/oer-sustainability/">SUNY OER Services campus sustainability project</a></p>
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