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As governments and funding agencies increasingly embrace Open Science and FAIR data principles, both qualitative and quantitative researchers are encouraged to deposit and share their data via institutional repositories. How suitable are repositories and data sharing for ethnomusicologists? This article chronicles a pilot project using the Canadian institutional data repository Borealis focused on digital ethnomusicological research data related to the defunct Toronto punk and metal venue Coalition TO. The article includes recommendations relating to digital ethnomusicological research data management and considerations for those contemplating storing and sharing their digital research data collections, whether via institutional repositories or other means.

In this article, we outline an emergent community-engaged research-creation (CE-RC) methodology that builds on principles from performative ethnography, community engagement, and care-full improvisation. CE-RC was developed through the Resonance Project (2020-23), in which we tested, reflected on, and refined our ideas in collaboration with musicians from marginalized communities. Drawing on both ethnographic data and analysis of collaborative artistic creations, we argue that CE-RC has high potential as a participatory applied methodology through which researchers and community collaborators together can advocate for positive social change.

A narrow (<1 m) fine- to medium-grained lamprophyre dyke intruded Neoproterozoic monzodiorite on the eastern side of Machias Seal Island in the northern Gulf of Maine about 19 km southwest of the island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. The dyke is near-vertical and trends 015° to 025°, with two shoreline exposures about 680 m apart assumed to be the same dyke. The dyke is notably dark and dense, with a granular broken surface. Thin sections reveal abundant euhedral outlines of olivine pseudomorphs in a groundmass of small (<0.2 mm) grains of brown amphibole (kaersutite) and augite, with ocelli and interstitial patches of albite, calcite, and analcite. The olivine phenocrysts have been completely replaced by chlorite, whereas other ferromagnesian minerals remain unaltered. Accessory minerals include abundant needle-shaped apatite, magnetite, and cubic pyrite. Another small dyke on the western side of the island is less mafic, non-porphyritic, and consists of fine- to medium-grained plagioclase and clinopyroxene, which are highly altered; we interpret it to be unrelated to the lamprophyre dyke to the east. Whole-rock chemistry shows that the lamprophyre dyke is camptonite, similar to some Mesozoic lamprophyre dykes of Maritime Canada and New England, USA, of which the nearest example is about 110 km to the southwest in coastal Maine. Laser fusion 40Ar/39Ar analyses of single kaersutite crystals (n = 12) yield an age distribution with a single, well-defined mode of ca. 468 Ma; incremental heating analyses of small aliquots of crystals show evidence of some radiogenic 40Ar loss and yield a mean plateau age of 478.7 ± 1.9 Ma. This Early Ordovician age and the accompanying uncertainty are interpreted to represent the time of crystallization for the camptonite dyke. The camptonite of Machias Seal Island is older than other Paleozoic and Mesozoic mafic dykes in the region. It is interpreted to be the product of partial melting of a metasomatised mantle during the Penobscot orogeny.

Keywords: lamprophyre dyke, dyke de lamprophyre, camptonite, camptonite, Gulf of Maine, golfe du Maine, Ordovician dyke, dyke ordovicien

Although free access to food is a common response to food insecurity, it does not guarantee consumption. Our research examines how the concept of pleasure can be incorporated into food support programmes offered by community organizations in Québec. A mixed methodology was employed to analyze the relationship between experienced food insecurity and the pleasure of eating. The results offer theoretical and practical ways forward, emphasizing the importance of considering the notion of choice in interventions. They provide food for thought and suggest to public decision-makers that they adopt a collective approach to combating food insecurity, enabling people to rediscover the pleasure of eating.

Keywords: plaisir, pleasure, food insecurity, insécurité alimentaire, community organisation, organisme communautaire, precarity, précarité, James Bay, Baie-James, Québec, Québec

This article examines the “prison platform” as a novel technology of digital confinement. The focus is how United States multinational Honeywell established a prison platform in Australia and New Zealand, neighboring settler colonies where the Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty, and prison systems continue to be stamped by deeply entrenched patterns of Indigenous hyperincarceration. While studies of digital colonialism have tended to focus on how Global North actors exploit data relations in the Global South, we examine Honeywell building its prison platform across the “North-in-South” divide in Australia and New Zealand, states that are located geographically in the South but have large settler majorities and close ties to the North. We argue that Honeywell exploits the power relations of Indigenous confinement in the settler colony to advance a novel form of tech-facilitated prison privatization. The analysis reveals three key dynamics of prison platforming: the private sector capture of prison infrastructure formally governed by settler state agencies (infrastructural capture), the commercial logic of continual platform expansion through the integration of new data-extracting technologies (extractive integration), and the leveraging of control over infrastructure to entrench power over competitors in commercial markets for prison technology (market gatekeeping). The paper extends research into platform power by shifting focus from online commerce and communications to the built environment of the prison, and spotlights a convergence between cutting-edge digital technology and much older practices of settler colonial social control.

Keywords: Australia, New Zealand, prison platform, digital confinement, digital colonialism, social control

Online learning environments tend not to provide the social and pedagogical cues of physical classrooms, so evaluating student engagement and emotional states in real time becomes challenging. Current methods depend mainly upon facial expression recognition or textual sentiment analysis, constraining the depth and accuracy of behavioral interpretation. This research suggests a multimodal learning analytics framework that combines visual and textual data to infer learner emotions and engagement for improving the interpretability, responsiveness, and pedagogical value of learning analytics systems in digital education. Two datasets were created: (a) a facial expression dataset of 10,000 grayscale images annotated over five emotion categories and (b) an engagement dataset of 4,000 images annotated according to behavioral indicators. Concurrently, 1,667 learner feedback responses from massive open online courses were prepared for sentiment analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were used for emotion and engagement classification, and a fine-tuned BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers) model for sentiment analysis. A rule-based integration engine combined outputs to create multidimensional behavioural typologies. The CNN models reached >92% validation accuracy for both emotion detection and engagement detection tasks, whereas the BERT sentiment classifier achieved F1 = 0.87 and 88.1% accuracy. The multimodal integration procedure identified four unique learner behavior typologies (e.g., students who were cognitively engaged but visually disengaged). The framework offers an accurate, interpretable, and scalable real-time learning analytics solution. Compared with previous methods, it overcomes significant limitations and offers a useful resource for facilitating adaptive, data-based instruction interventions, especially in online and health science education.

Keywords: health science education, learning analytics, sentiment analysis, emotion detection, BERT, engagement typology, cognitive presence, multimodal AI

A recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory, is about the decline of democracy. Not an explanation of the phenomenon, but rather a look at how democratic theory has responded. This paper adapts that approach. The context of progressive librarianship (PL) has likewise shifted and consolidated with the results of the 2024 US presidential election and its aftermath. This is not localized or short term, it is global and persistent—and for democracy as well as libraries. The time has come to step back and ask the equivalent questions to that book on democratic theory: what is PL now? How did PL adapt and how might PL adapt? Efforts to document the work of and define PL began in response to “considerable ambiguity about just what constitutes progressive librarianship”—an inquiry conducted over the course of 15 years. It revealed that PL is an umbrella term describing both scholarship and organizational activities, gathering together many labels, if not always comfortably. This paper traces those paths, and based on that history suggests ones for PL to take, and perhaps as important, not to take.

Keywords: Democracy, bibliothéconomie progressiste, démocratie, neoliberalism, néolibéralisme, progressive librarianship

The main sources of citation injustice are the collective biases in the scientific community, including literature retrieval bias, which has direct effects on citation inequality. In this commentary I focus on index bias in literature databases, inherent/unconscious bias during search strategy development, and systematic bias of controlled vocabularies. Exemplar literature search strategies and/or retrieval analyses comparing Web of Science and OpenAlex are used to demonstrate these biases. Moreover, this commentary offers steps to consider during literature search preparation, search query building, and the search itself, which can lead to a more inclusive representation of the literature in the topic of interest and reduce citation inequity.

Keywords: inclusive literature retrieval, search strategy bias, citation inequity, systematic bias

Objective – The aims of the open education (OE) movement can be supported by academic librarians, although most librarians have not had formal training on open educational resources (OER). The objective of this study is to design and validate a survey instrument to measure the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of academic librarians toward OER to be used in future research projects. Methods – The Open Education - Librarian Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (OpenEd-LibKAP) scale was developed by experienced academic librarians and assessed for content validity by OER subject experts. A pilot study was conducted to assess internal consistency, and a second round of the survey was administered to an international group of current academic librarians. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed on the results. Results – The final instrument includes 50 questions, with 22 items in the knowledge domain, 16 items in the attitude domain, and 12 items in the practices domain. The KAP factors positively correlate in an expected manner, with a range from .404 to .591. The individual domains have high markers of reliability, implying a degree of confidence in our findings and future uses of the tool. Conclusion – The OpenEd-LibKAP Scale developed through this study can be used by library administrators, OER program administrators, librarian researchers, and OER researchers to more accurately measure and assess academic librarian OER competencies, beliefs, and behaviours related to OER.

In Quebec, regular public schools, public schools with specific programs, and private schools coexist. The sociological analysis of these school markets requires consideration of the choices made by parents to understand the practices and discourse of social actors, as well as the structural factors that influence them. Indeed, not all parents have the same advantages when it comes to seeking information and to choosing a school for their children. This article aims to explore how parents living in disadvantaged environments, who did not attend university, mobilize their symbolic capital (according to Pierre Bourdieu’s definition) to choose a secondary school for their children, across different cities in the province of Quebec (Montreal, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, and Rimouski). The study is based on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted with parents in the process of choosing a secondary school for their children. The thematic analysis of the interviews shows that most parents without a university degree nevertheless are able to navigate and leverage the capital they possess in order to make an informed school choice for their children. Through the parents’ discourse, it becomes clear that values guide their choices, sometimes independently of financial means.

Keywords: capitaux symboliques, Symbolic capital, school choice, choix scolaire, school markets, marchés scolaires, unequal access to knowledge, inégalités scolaires