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Every month, the ResearchDataQ editorial board will collect and share info on data-related events, publications, and other resources that may be of interest to the DSS community. 

Have an appropriate item to share in a future Data Resources email? Submit your suggestions here: https://researchdataq.org/suggest-a-topic/ 

Volunteer for the ResearchDataQ Editorial Board:

Do you have data expertise you would like to share with the ACRL DSS community and beyond? If so, consider volunteering to serve on the ResearchDataQ Editorial Board. We are currently seeking new members to join the Editorial Board for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2021. Recent Editorial Board activities included recruiting and reviewing editorials as well as creating other types of content for the ResearchDataQ website. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on the ResearchDataQ Editorial Board, please fill out the ACRL committee volunteer form by February 12, 2021, and select “ACRL/DSS ResearchDataQ Editorial Board” from the list of DSS committees.

Spotlight on Black History Month:

In honor of Black History Month, we would like to highlight a few of the great projects and organizations that are led by Black scholars and data scientists and that focus on issues of data and racial equity and justice. 

The Algorithmic Justice League, founded by Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini (@jovialjoy), aims to “to raise public awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with empirical research to bolster campaigns, build the voice and choice of most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policymakers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI bias and harms.”  Twitter: @AJLUnited 

Black Girls Code, founded by Kimberly Bryant (@6Gems), aims “to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.” Twitter: @BlackGirlsCode 

Black in Data, founded by Dr. Ruth Agbakoba (@RuthAgbakoba) and Simone Webb (@SimSci9), “represents a community of academics, professionals, and students working in various areas of data. We gather to support, learn from, and share opportunities with one another, and ultimately increase representation of Black people in data fields.” Twitter: @BlkInData

COVID Black, founded by Dr. Kim Gallon (@BlackDigitalHum), is “a Black Health data organization that uses data to tell stories about the Black lived experience to advocate for health equity. ” Twitter: @COVIDBLK 

The COVID Racial Data Tracker, initiated by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram), “advocates for, collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic across the United States. It’s a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.” Twitter: @COVID19Tracking and @AntiracismCtr 

Data For Black Lives, founded by Yeshimabeit Milner (@YESHICAN), is “a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.” Twitter: @Data4BlackLives

Love Data Week 

It is once again time for the annual international Love Data Week celebration (Feb. 8 – 12). The ICPSR is now the official home for Love Data Week! In addition to hosting their Adopt a Dataset event and a series of webinars, ICPSR is also maintaining a list of events from around the world.

The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is celebrating Love Data Week with a Spotlight on “Open” event – a series of 30 minute chats with experts on a number of questions related to openness and data. The week will be rounded out with a panel discussion featuring the week’s speakers. 

Follow Love Data Week on Twitter #LoveData21. 

Upcoming Events and Opportunities:

The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship and Department of Information at University of Colorado Boulder is hosting a talk by Dr. Lauren Klein (Emory University), co-author with Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) of the book, Data Feminism on Wednesday, February 10 at 2pm MST (GMT-7). Advance Registration Required.

Registration is now open for the 2021 virtual summit of the Research Data Access & Preservation Association (RDAP). This year’s theme is Radical Change and Data. The summit will be held March 10-12, 2021 on Zoom. Registration for the summit is $30 and additional workshops are $10. Scholarships are available with preference given to students, early career professionals, and individuals from marginalized and underrepresented groups. Scholarship applications are due February 19. For more on the summit and summit scholarships visit the RDAP website.

The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) is now accepting applications for its 2021 virtual fellowship program – open to early-to-mid career library professionals and doctoral students in iSchool or ALA-accredited LIS programs. Fellows will study a preparatory curriculum and take part in a six-month data science project sponsored by a Member Node site. Application deadline: March 15th, 2021, 11:59pm EST

The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) has released a call for submissions for a special issue entitled “Data Curation in Practice”, which will be guest edited by members of the Data Curation Network. Submissions are encouraged which address “how information professionals are implementing data curation practices, workflows for institutions and repositories, ideas and sparks for improving data curation practices, and more.”  The deadline for submissions is March 25, 2021. 

IASSIST Quarterly has issued a call for proposals for a Special Issue on Systemic Racism in Data Practices. They invite proposals “that discusses anti-Blackness, antiindigeneity, white supremacy, and racism against minoritized and marginalized communities in data,research, tools, and practices.” The issue will be co-edited by Jonathan Cain, Columbia University, and Trevor Watkins, George Mason University. The deadline for submissions is April 2, 2021. 

Recent Publications

The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) has published their yearly Special Issue highlighting works related to the Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2020. the guest editors of this issue are Sara Mannheimer (Montana State University), Heather Coates (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis), Sawyer Newman (Yale University), and Amanda Rinehart (The Ohio State University). Read the full issue here.

ResearchDataQ Monthly Data Resources

Every month, the ResearchDataQ editorial board will collect and share info on data-related events, publications, and other resources that may be of interest to the DSS community. 

Have an appropriate item to share in a future Data Resources email? Submit your suggestions here: https://researchdataq.org/suggest-a-topic/ 

Upcoming Events and Opportunities:

Library Carpentry Advisory Group Call for New Members – applications are due by 18 January 2021. “The Library Carpentry Advisory Group acts as a key friend to The Carpentries governance and staff and advises on ways to foster greater participation in the Library Carpentry community. The Advisory Group discusses, plans, and pursues strategies for involving new and current members in Library Carpentry. Members of the Group volunteer to serve three year terms, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership each year.”

Call for Papers: 16th International Digital Curation Conference (19-20 April 2021) – The conference theme is “Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation”

Call for Proposals: The 16th International Conference on Open Repositories – The conference theme is “Open for All” and the proposal deadline is 25 January 2021.

Researcher Perspectives on Open Data & Open Scholarship – “Join us online Thursday, January 14, 2021 for the 13th Research Data Management Roundtable, sponsored by the ACRL/NEC Research Data Services and Scholarly Communication SIGs. This event will feature a panel of researchers talking about their perspectives on and experiences with open scholarship with an emphasis on sharing data, mentoring students, and open science. The panel will be followed by a roundtable discussion during which attendees can explore their experiences, including opportunities, challenges, and surprises, pleasant or otherwise, engaging with researchers around open scholarship.”

Data & Society Workshop Call for Applications: Trust and Doubt in Public-Sector Data Infrastructures – Deadline to apply is Friday, January 8, 2021. “The event will take place online on Thursday, March 25, 2021, currently scheduled from 10 a.m. ET through 5 p.m. ET (exact timing to be confirmed). Participants will be offered a $150 stipend, contingent upon tax laws and acceptance. Unlike a conference, this workshop focuses on reading and offering interdisciplinary responses to in-progress draft papers. We strongly encourage participation from scholars outside of the United States. That said, we recognize that some constraints may be burdensome to certain participants. This event will be held in English and in the Eastern Standard Timezone.”

Recent Publications:

The latest issue of The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy contains an article reporting on the findings of the IMLS-funded “Visualizing the Future” grant and a forum on “Data and Computational Pedagogy:”

Every month, the ResearchDataQ editorial board will collect and share info on data-related events, publications, and other resources that may be of interest to the DSS community. 

Thanks to Jean-Paul Courneya, MS (Bioinformationist, University of Maryland, Baltimore) for his resource suggestions this month.

Have an appropriate item to share in a future Data Resources email? Submit your suggestions here: https://researchdataq.org/suggest-a-topic/ 

Upcoming Events and Opportunities:

The Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR) virtual conference Monday, October 19, held in conjunction with the Open Science Symposium, Tuesday, October 20, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Department of Computer Science. Register here for both conferences.

Open Access Week is October 19-25. The theme for this year is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Check out these ACRL resources to help you celebrate the week, including a free webinar Wednesday, October 21, 2pm Eastern time.

The Research Data Management Webinar Series offered by the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is back. Find details here for their October webinar on ethics and data visualization with presenters Nicole Contaxis and Fred LaPolla, taking place Thursday, October 22, 2pm-3pm Eastern time.

Open peer review call for the Open Data Section (edited by Brianna Marshall) of the upcoming open textbook Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Culture (ACRL, forthcoming 2021). The review period will end on October 25.

The Call for Proposals is open for the 2021 Summit of the Research Data Access and Preservation Association (RDAP). The theme for this year’s summit is “Radical Change and Data”. Please submit your proposals for presentations, lightning talks, or workshops by November 1.

Recent Publications:

Chodacki, John, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Natalie Meyers, Jennifer Muilenburg, Maria Praetzellis, Kacy Redd, Judy Ruttenberg, Katie Steen, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Maria Gould. Implementing Effective Data Practices: Stakeholder Recommendations for Collaborative Research Support. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, September 2020. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.effectivedatapractices2020.

Kim Gallon, A Review of COVID-19 Intersectional Data Decision-Making: A Call for Black Feminist Data Analytics, Part I.  Kim Gallon is the director and co-founder of COVID Black.

Max Kuhn and Julia Silge, Tidy Modeling with R, (October 2020), a free guide from the creators of the tidymodels framework – “a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles.”

Danny Lämmerhirt, Ana Brandusescu, Natalia Domagala & Patrick Enaholo, eds. Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts (Sept 2020) from African Minds an open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books.

Yongming Wang, ed., Special Issue (Vol. 5 No.1, 2020) of the International Journal of Librarianship on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Libraries.    

Other Resources:

RJ Andrews, guest curator, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination, (digital exhibit focusing on historical innovations in data visualization.) 

National Institutes of Health, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave (secure data portal hosted by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) which “aims to improve the efficiency and accessibility of analyses with COVID-19 clinical data, expand our ability to analyze and understand COVID, and demonstrate a novel approach for collaborative pandemic data sharing.”)

National Institutes of Health, NCBI Datasets (a collection of experimental tools aiming to provide access to genome sequence and annotation data from the National Center for Bioinformation Technology).

Every month, the ResearchDataQ editorial board will collect and share info on data-related events, publications, and other resources that may be of interest to the community.

Have an appropriate item to share in a future Data Resources post? Submit your suggestions via our Suggest a Topic form.

Upcoming Events:

Visualizing the Future Live Update, Tuesday, September 22, 1pm to 2pm Eastern time | 10am to 11am Pacific time | 5pm to 6pm UTC time, Registration Form

Visualizing the Future is an IMLS National Forum Grant to develop a literacy-based instructional and research agenda for library and information professionals with the aim to create a community of praxis focused on data visualization. Tune in to learn about grant activities and upcoming community-building opportunities.

Recent Publications:

Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), now open access: https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/

Linnet Taylor, Gargi Sharma, Aaron Martin, and Shazade Jameson, eds., Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives; info: https://shop.meatspacepress.com/product/data-justice-and-covid-19-global-perspectives ; open access PDF via the Internet Archive: https://ia801905.us.archive.org/23/items/data-justice-and-covid-19/Data_Justice_and_COVID-19.pdf

Kayla Abner, “Data Literacy as Digital Humanities Literacy: Exploration of Threshold Concepts,” dh+lib special issue, 22 June 2020.

Other Resources:

Shanda Hunt, “Data Visualization Services Toolkit for Libraries” (“…intended for librarians and libraries embarking on a new data visualization service, but could also be used to refresh skills, develop lesson plans for a data visualization course, or as a starter for anyone with an interest in the topic.”)

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, “Data Science in a Box” (an intro to data science for learners without background in stats or computing, with interactive tutorials using R)

Data Curation Network, “Data Curation Primers” (new additions include data curation primers for Twitter, GeoTIFF, ISO Images, and Neuroimaging DICOM and NIfTI)

National Institutes of Health, “All of Us Research Hub” (portal to biomedical data and metadata; currently in beta testing)