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Endangered Data Week - April 17-21, 2017

Endangered Data Week is a national series of events intended to raise awareness of threats to publicly available data, discuss the power dynamics of data creation, sharing, and retention, and work to make endangered data more accessible and secure.

Visit the Endangered Data Week web site.

Host an event

If you would like to host events at your institution or in your city, you may use materials in the EDW resources repository or develop your own. If you're hosting an event, be sure to add it to our growing list of events on the website using the event form.

Potential events:

Workshop using endangered data
Digitizing and reformatting data workshop/hackathon
DataRescue event
Letter writing/advocacy campaign
Data curation workshops
Lectures/roundtables on transparency/policy/critical data literacy
Workshops on using archived websites for research
Web scraping/archiving workshops

Contribute to the resources

You can do this by submitting a pull request on the EDW Resources Github repository or by emailing blocke at msu dot edu

Add the documentation and materials from a workshop you're planning
Contribute information to the existing documentation
Create a postcard to mail in to legislative officials
Design promotional materials for others to use

Media and Promotion

The EDW logo and a die cut sticker file are available for download in the Resources repository
Contact Kristen Mapes (kmapes at msu dot edu) to request stickers

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 == Endangered Data Week - April 17-21, 2017 ==
 [http://endangereddataweek.org Endangered Data Week] is a national series of events intended to raise awareness of threats to publicly available data, discuss the power dynamics of data creation, sharing, and retention, and work to make endangered data more accessible and secure.
+Visit the Endangered Data Week [http://endangereddataweek.org web site].
 ===Host an event===