ShowEvidence

ShowEvidence is a platform developed by the Educopia Institute, a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Katherine Skinner. Dr. Skinner, who received her PhD from Emory University, co-founded Educopia to empower collaborative communities in creating, sharing, and preserving knowledge. Her work focuses on community building, organizational resilience, and open knowledge systems. Educopia itself evolved from projects at Emory University and was formally established on October 6, 2006.

The Institute serves cultural, scientific, and scholarly institutions such as universities, museums, libraries, and archives by providing consulting, fiscal sponsorship, and research services. It aims to improve the capabilities of these institutions by fostering collaborative projects that address common needs, particularly in cyberinfrastructure, digital curation, and preservation. Educopia has been instrumental in launching and supporting various initiatives, including the Library Publishing Coalition, MetaArchive Cooperative, and the BitCurator Consortium. The organization operates through grant funding, receiving significant awards from bodies like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Arcadia for projects related to library publishing workflows and open-source infrastructure.

ShowEvidence is one of the tools or concepts associated with Educopia's mission. While specific details on ShowEvidence as a standalone product are not extensively documented in the search results, the name implies a function related to data aggregation, usage analysis, and demonstrating the impact or return on investment for scholarly and cultural outputs. This aligns with Educopia's broader projects, such as efforts to create frameworks for understanding the usage of open access e-books and developing workflows for born-digital archival materials. The platform appears to be part of a suite of community-driven tools and frameworks, like the Samvera repository software, which Educopia supports. These tools are designed for a client base of academic and cultural memory organizations to help them manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content effectively.

Keywords: Educopia Institute, Katherine Skinner, digital preservation, scholarly communication, community cultivation, open knowledge, library publishing, digital curation, archival workflows, cyberinfrastructure, non-profit, cultural heritage, academic libraries, MetaArchive Cooperative, BitCurator Consortium, open source infrastructure, knowledge preservation, data aggregation, research support, scholarly publishing