Data Speculations has been in development since 2023, and work has been ongoing for over a year to organize the National Forum. The Project Team is presenting at various academic conferences in the field to raise awareness and solicit feedback.

In 2025, the National Forum will take place, with a week-long series of events with practitioners in the field. Additional convenings with relevant stakeholders will take place over the year at Temple University Libraries and other venues.

Upcoming Presentations on Data Speculations

Emerging Legal Pathways for Digital Humanities Research on Copyrighted Literature Alex Wermer-Colan, Sarah Potvin, Peter Jaszi, Quinn Dombrowski, and Mark Algee-Hewitt Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2024

Recent Presentations on Data Speculations

“Data Speculations: Expanding Access to Copyrighted Collections as Data” Alex Wermer-Colan, Sarah Potvin, Rachael Samberg, and Brandon Butler Digital Library Federation Forum (2024)

“Copyrighted Collections as Data” Sarah Potvin and Alex Wermer-Colan Texas Conference of Digital Libraries (2024)

Relevant Scholarship and Resources

Relevant scholarship to the National Forum includes recent work in copyright law, digital humanities, and related fields in GLAM.

A running list of relevant references can be found on our Zotero library

For resources around building a science fiction corpus, see sfnexus.io/scholarship.

Past Presentations on SF Nexus

Association of Digital Humanities Organization, 2024
Alex Wermer-Colan, Dez Miller, Megan Kane, SaraGrace Stefan

HathiTrust Community Week, 2022
Alex Wermer-Colan

Code4Lib, 2022
Inna Kouper and Alex Wermer-Colan

Association for Computers in the Humanities, 2019
Alex Wermer-Colan and Rikk Mulligan

American Philosophical Society, “The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries,” 2019
Alex Wermer-Colan and James Kopaczewski