82nd chat, Monday April 17 2017: endangered data
6pm Pacific / 7pm Mountain / 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern*
*note special Monday evening time
Moderated by @brandontlocke & @worldcatlady
Storify (pdf, html) by @elotroalex
Endangered Data is data that is at risk of deletion, repression, mishandling, or lost, or data for which broad access is difficult or impossible.
Suggested readings:
- Endangered Data Week website: http://endangereddataweek.org/
- The Federal Government’s Social And Economic Data Is In Danger. The Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/
2017/3/17/1644595/-The- Federal-Government-s-Social- And-Economic-Data-Is-In-Danger
Discussion questions:
- Q1. What are some ways in which you are impacted by the collection & use of federal data? #critlib
- Q2. What can we as information professionals do to preserve access to #endangereddata? #critlib
- Q3. How do you define data literacy? #critlib
- Q4. What skills & literacies are required for engagement w/ open data & data-driven news and policies? #critlib
- Q5. Do you teach infolit in a civic/social justice context (civic hackathons, ‘Fake News’)? #critlib