Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the NDSA coordinating committee and interest group chairs, I
am happy to announce NDSA's support of *Endangered Data Week *and invite
you to participate in next week's awareness activities.
*Endangered Data Week <http://endangereddataweek.org/>*
<http://endangereddataweek.org>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
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EndangeredData> more accessible and secure.
Join us for an open call
<http://endangereddataweek.org/events/2017-04-17-edw-at-ndsa-standards-practices-open-call/>
of the NDSA’s Standards and Practices working group on April 17, 1 PM ET!
( And browse for online events and opportunities near you:
http://endangereddataweek.org/map/ )
*Endangered Data Week* is facilitated by a dedicated team of volunteers,
including Brandon Locke and Jason A. Heppler, supported by the Digital
Library Federation <https://diglib.org/> and in partnership with a new
DLF interest group on Records Transparency/Accountability
<https://www.diglib.org/archives/13609/>, led by Rachel Mattson. Additional
supporters include DataRefuge <https://www.datarefuge.org/>, Mozilla Science
Lab <https://science.mozilla.org/> and CLIR <https://www.clir.org/>.
best,
Micah
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Micah Altman, Ph.D. <http://informatics.mit.edu> Twitter:
@drmaltman
Director of Research -- MIT Libraries; Head/Scientist, Program on
Information ScienceMy pronouns are: he / him
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate" - Doctor Invincibilis
(Corollary, "Ad indicia spectate.")
