Curation Policy – Spring School 2025 Zenodo Community

The Spring School 2025 Zenodo Community curates and preserves outputs created for, or presented at, the NWU Faculty of Humanities Spring School 2025. This community reflects our commitment to open scholarship, equitable knowledge-sharing, and sustainable digital preservation.

Scope of accepted submissions:

• Presentations delivered during Spring School 2025 (slides, posters, recordings).

• Workshop materials, including handouts, guides, or exercises.

• Supplementary research outputs (datasets, code, sound files, images, or other media) directly connected to a Spring School session.

• Short reflective or position papers that extend or document contributions to the Spring School.

Licensing and accessibility:

• Contributors are encouraged to select an open license (e.g., Creative Commons) to maximise accessibility and reuse.

• Submissions must not infringe copyright or data protection regulations. Authors remain responsible for securing necessary permissions.

Quality assurance and review:

• All submissions will be reviewed by the community curators to ensure they align with the Spring School 2025 scope.

• Submissions may be declined if they fall outside the scope, contain sensitive or inappropriate material, or do not meet Zenodo’s content policies.

Why Zenodo?
Zenodo provides each accepted submission with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring that contributions remain permanently accessible and citable. This aligns with our broader aim of fostering open, Afrocentric, and sustainable scholarship across digital humanities and the humanities more broadly.