Practical Ethics (2004)

Location: Electronic classroom of the Science and Engineering Library in Clark Hall unless otherwise noted.

Sunday, July 18

1:30 PM
Meet in lobby of Marriott Courtyard for travel to Clark Hall

2 PM
Welcome and introductions from conveners Karin Wittenborg (UVa) and Abby Smith (CLIR);
Remarks from Don Waters (Mellon Foundation)

3 PM
Remarks by Deanna Marcum (Library of Congress)
Issues of focus: Scholarly communication and the transformation of scholarship

4 PM
Presentation and discussion by David Germano (UVa) “Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library”
Demonstration of a developing digital library that unites a global community of scholars through a technology-enabled communications platform
Issues of focus:

• Developing and nurturing collaboration
• Impacts on teaching and research
• Sustainability (financial, technical, personnel, etc.)
• Lessons learned

5 PM
Break

6 PM
Reception
[The Ivy Inn, 2244 Old Ivy Road, Charlottesville]

7 PM
Dinner
[The Ivy Inn, 2244 Old Ivy Road, Charlottesville]

Monday, July 19

8 AM
Breakfast

9 AM
Panel discussion by James Childress (UVa), Elizabeth Kiss (Duke), Richard Miller (IU), and Jeffrey Kahn (UMn)
Issues of Focus:

• Defining practical ethics
• Identifying the grand challenges to the field
• Effects of globalization
• Communications challenges
• Barriers between scholarly and public discourse
• Professional and academic concerns (such as reward and tenure, publication, access to information, and so forth)

10:30 AM
Break

11 AM
Presentation and discussion by Stephen G. Nichols and Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins) “Roman de la Rose” project
Issues of Focus:

• Developing international intellectual and technical collaboration
• Effect of the project on the content and sociology of the fields involved
• What can be done now that was not possible working the old way
• What resources and support were required to build the resource
• What will be required to sustain it
• Lessons learned

12:30 PM
Lunch

2 PM
Presentation and discussion by Michael Grossberg (Indiana University, American Historical Review) and Roy Rosenzweig (George Mason University, Center for History and New Media): Innovations in scholarly communication within the history community
Issues of Focus:

• What new arguments and interpretations do digital technologies make possible? What (non-academic) communities can and should we engage?
• What impact does this have on peer-review based academic activities (publishing, promotion)?
• What has it taken to support and sustain innovation at American Historical Review and the Center for History and New Media?

3:00 PM
Break

4 PM
Wrap-up, moderated by Abby Smith 6 PM Reception [Pavilion IX, University Lawn]

7 PM
Dinner
[Oxo, 215 West Water Street, Charlottesville]

Tuesday, July 20

8 AM
Breakfast

9 AM
Presentation and discussion by Robert Cavalier (Carnegie Mellon University) Multimedia case studies on ethics
Issues of Focus:

• Why are case studies important for practical ethics?
• How does technology enable them?
• What can we do now that we were not able to before?
• What does it take to build and sustain this work?
• Lessons learned

10 AM
Break

10:30 AM
Presentation and discussion by Kate Wittenberg (Columbia University EPIC), Glenn McGee (American Journal of Bioethics) and Richard Brown (Georgetown University Press) on scholarly publishing
Issues of Focus:

• Varieties of costs and business models for electronic publishing
• Campus-based infrastructure needed to support publishing
• Institutional policies that affect support and sustainability of electronic dissemination
• Key challenges going forward

11:30 AM
Team discussions, moderated by Abby Smith: What have we learned and where do we go from here
Issues of Focus:

• What can we do that would make a significant difference?
• Funding, collaboration, technology issues
• What resources do we have to leverage to begin this project?
• What are the key technology issues?
• What are the key organizational issues?

12:30 PM
Lunch and Remarks
Remarks by Steve Wheatley (ACLS)
Issues of Focus:

• What are the goals of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences?
• What is in it for ethicists and the communities they engage?

2 PM
Unstructured time (on offer: tours of Monticello, University Lawn, White Hall Winery, etc.)

6 PM
Reception
[Colonnade Club, Pavilion VII, University Lawn]

7 PM
Dinner
[Colonnade Club Pavilion VII, University Lawn]

Wednesday, July 21

8 AM
Breakfast

9:00 AM
Presentations by teams: teams report on what they learned and ideas generated, etc.
What do we want to do? Focus on big picture ideas

10 AM
Break

10:30 AM
Concluding session: Remarks by Jim O’Donnell: reflect on what he’s heard, from an administrator’s point of view, challenge group to develop “doable” program, proposed actions, commitments.
Outline next steps, What do we want to do? Why? Who?

12 PM
Lunch

2 PM
SCI2 Concludes
CLIR Advisory Group convenes to discuss what worked, what didn’t, next steps, outcomes, etc.