Dear all — This week is the first annual Endangered Data Week! Since I last wrote you, both the Mozilla Foundation and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance have joined DLF, CLIR, and DataRefuge as institutional sponsors for the week, which
is full of hands-on workshops, roundtable discussions, talks, Twitter chats, webinars, and more.
Did you miss NDSA’s open call or the DLF #EndangeredData Twitter chat today? Never fear: there’s a #critlib chat for Endangered Data Week at 9pm Eastern tonight, and DLF will host a webinar (100 spaces only: first come, first served!) on Friday
at 1pm Eastern:
"Endangered Accountability: On FOIA, Government Data, and Transparency,” featuring Alex Howard, Deputy Director of the Sunlight Foundation, Alina Selmo, Director of the FOIA ombudsman’s office at the National Archives, Amy Bennett, also of the
Office of Government Information Services at NARA, and Denice Ross of New America.
The webinar is sponsored by our new working group on Government Records Transparency and Accountability:
Thanks to everyone involved in planning Endangered Data Week and organizing local events on campuses, at community centers, and in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: March
13, 2017 at 11:38:46 AM EDT
We invite your participation in Endangered Data Week, a distributed network of events running from April 17th-21st,
2017:
Endangered Data Week is a new, annual, grassroots effort to:
- raise awareness of threats to publicly available data of all kinds, across sectors and disciplines;
- provide opportunities to explore the power dynamics of data creation, sharing, privacy, and retention;
- build community capacity by teaching ways to make #EndangeredData more accessible and secure.
Nothing nearby? Please help make this first EDW a success by planning a gathering and adding
it to our list and map!
We especially encourage events that promote care for endangered collections by:
- publicizing the availability of datasets to diverse communities;
- increasing critical engagement with data, including through visualization, analysis, and storytelling;
- encouraging activism and advocacy for open data policies;
- fostering needed skills through workshops on data curation, documentation and discovery, improved access, and preservation.