Grassroots Organizing and Data Rescue
Abstract
One of the most challenging aspects of organizing in the early days of the grassroots Data Rescue movement was figuring out how to best utilize the great variety of people who wanted to help preserve what they saw as vulnerable data. It was also the most rewarding, seeing students, librarians, scientists, sys admins, and high school teachers (among many others) working together at events with little regard for hierarchies of experience and expertise. While Data Rescue efforts have become more focused and refined since the end of January, it will be crucial to build upon both the passion that these volunteers brought to Data Rescue events as well as the wide varieties of expertise that will be necessary to address both short- and long-term needs. This session will describe some continuing efforts around both public engagement and the leveraging of varieties of expertise as we plan for long term preservation and access of crucial federal data.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AGUFMIN21E..03S
- Keywords:
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- 1904 Community standards;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1912 Data management;
- preservation;
- rescue;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1930 Data and information governance;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1934 International collaboration;
- INFORMATICS