Humans of Data

“I think it’s about making a difference in the world. To believe that by working with data and metadata and technologies, and making data...

"I'm a librarian and I do feel part of a data community - the library sector is such a strong community, there's a real sense of identity...

“It really matters to me that my work contributes to the public good, that people can benefit from what I do. So working to support the...

"There's an argument out there that scientific data is not biased. But it's people that decided to collect that data, and it's people...

“So I ask researchers, ‘Can you help me generate this documentation, so others can use it? And so others can cite your data, and help...

When I think about how we can better support the sharing and preservation of research data, I think of the challenge we have in moving...

"I get passionate when we can engender system change, and that’s often through policy change. Sometimes that’s top down, but it can also...

“The things that made me interested in data twenty-five years ago are the same things that make me interested in it now.  It’s the way...

“I’m a data scientist. One needs to be aware that data is important to do science. But it comes with lots of issues, to make good quality...

“I‘m an ethnographer.  Well, I’m not only an ethnographer, but the heftiest part of my dissertation work was ethnography.  And as one who...