Humans of Data

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...

“I’m trying to create awareness for researchers on opening up their own data.  Before working [on open data] I didn’t know anything about...

"What motivates me to keep going is teaching people who are going to keep this going after us. Managing data will find its place in the ...

“I’m an archivist who does digital preservation in a library and I’m very aware of the opportunities and challenges that happen in that...

"My story with data is funny. A year and half ago I didn’t know the term ‘big data’ exists. I couldn’t sleep one night in Cairo and I was...

“I’m excited that people are now starting to think about data sharing. For the last few years it’s been me, as the institutional data...