Endangered Data Week: Save Govt. Data

摘要

Aiming to raise awareness and maintain momentum for preservation efforts focused on publicly administered data, the inaugural "Endangered Data Week" kicked off on April 17 and ultimately featured more than 50 presentations, panels, and projects in the United States, Spain, and Australia. The initiative was led by Brandon Locke, digital social science and humanities .specialist with Michigan State University's (MSU) history department, in collaboration with Jason A. Hep-pier, academic technology specialist for Stanford University's department of history; Bethany Nowviskie, director of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources' (CLIR) Digital Library Federation (DLF); and Wayne Graham, technical director for CLIR.