DataRescue - Oregon State University
Friday
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Saturday
Hosted by Oregon State University Libraries and Press
We’d like to focus the work we do in our Data Rescue sessions, regsitering for this event will help us know how many people are coming and what expertise they hold.
DataRescue - Oregon State University
DataRescue - Oregon State University is a project of OSU Libraries and Press in partnership with the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), PPEHlab’s DataRefuge project, and the Internet Archive’s End of Term Presidential Harvest.
DataRescue - Oregon State University brings together concerned citizens with experts in information technology, archiving, science, humanities, and policy. We need capable web-savvy and technical members of the public, librarians, and people with research and/or federal agency data expertise. Building on experience from similar events, everyone’s skills will be put to work in organized cooperation.
DataRescue - Oregon State University works to secure federal datasets in the face of major, federal, administrative change.
Join us for a day of preserving valuable government datasets from attempts to undermine science in the public service. Bring your laptop, water bottle and snacks. We’ll be focusing our time on the USDA Forest Service and the USDA Agricultural Research Service, though we may seek out USDA-related departments or programs that may be at immediate risk. We’re open to ideas and feedback, so bring those with you!
Schedule
Event will take place at: Autzen Classroom, Valley Library, OSU
March 17 - 9:00am-12:00pm
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:45 AM | Sign in and Grab Coffee |
| 9:00 AM | Event Begins - Introduction to Data Refuge and the Data Rescue workflows |
| 10:00 AM | Break-out to Activities |
| 12:00 PM | Wrap-up and get ready for tomorrow |
March 18 - 9:00am-12:00pm
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:45 AM | Sign in and Grab Coffee |
| 9:00 AM | Event Begins - Introduction for newcomers, break into groups if you were here yesterday |
| 12:00 PM | Wrap-up and debrief |
Activities
Web archiving: Contribute to the Internet Archive’s End of Term archive
“Seeding”
In this track you will work through federal websites to nominate, or “seed,” web pages, documents, and datasets to the Internet Archive (IA)’s End of Term archive, which preserves material using their web crawler. You should have familiarity with a web browser and attention to detail.
Data archiving: contribute to DataRefuge.org, a CKAN instance
“Harvesting” and “Researching”
In this track you will research, investigate, and preserve at-risk datasets identified in the track above and contribute to preserving datasets to the DataRefuge repository. You should EITHER have deep domain knowledge of scientific datasets, OR be a librarian, OR be a skilled technologist in a programming language of your choice (e.g., python, javascript, c, java, etc), knowledge of the command line (bash, shell, powershell), experience working with structured data (e.g., json formatting). Experience in front-end web development a plus.
Next Steps
“Long Tail”
In this track you will discuss and strategize about the next few months of tech projects as we move beyond collection. For newbies and veterans alike, you will be interested in establishing long-term goals for the project.
Event Location
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331
The event will be held in the Autzen Classroom on the 2nd (main) floor of the library. For the March 18th session, we’ll be at the front door on the north side of the library to let folks in - if we’re not there, just wait a moment and we’ll come get you.