Endangered Data Week

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.

Join the kick-off Twitter chat

Mark your calendar for Monday, April 17th at 3pm Eastern and join us for a Twitter chat to kick off Endangered Data Week. Just follow @CLIRDLF and use the hashtag #EndangeredData to join in.

Questions and Twitter handles for your hosts will be posted to this wiki ahead of time: check back for updated info!

Ideas for events

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 list of events on the website using the Endangered Data Week submission form.

Consider hosting:

Subject-specific workshops or presentations using endangered datasets
Lectures or roundtables on issues of transparency, policy, or critical data literacy
Workshop/hackathon on organizing, reformatting, or visualizing endangered data
DataRescue events
Letter writing/advocacy campaigns
Data curation workshops or training
Data Expeditions
Workshops on ways to use archived websites for research
Web scraping/web archiving workshops
Data storytelling events, using tools like these, from DataRefuge

Contribute to the resources repository

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