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Some ideas for events:
Some ideas for events:
* Workshop using endangered data
* Subject-specific workshops or presentations using endangered datasets
* Digitizing and reformatting data workshop/hackathon
* Lectures or roundtables on issues of transparency, policy, or critical data literacy
* DataRescue event
* Workshop/hackathon on organizing, reformatting, or visualizing endangered data  
* Letter writing/advocacy campaign
* [http://www.ppehlab.org/datarefuge DataRescue] events
* Data curation workshops
* Letter writing/advocacy campaigns
* Lectures/roundtables on transparency/policy/critical data literacy
* Data curation workshops or training
* Workshops on using archived websites for research
* Workshops ways to use archived websites for research
* Web scraping/archiving workshops
* Web scraping/web archiving workshops


===Contribute to the resources===
===Contribute to the resources===

Revision as of 17:09, 12 March 2017

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.

Some ideas for events:

  • 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
  • Workshops ways to use archived websites for research
  • Web scraping/web 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

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!