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5 years ago I suspect that this topic was chosen to look at data stewardship, but I keep being drawn to ideas around stewarding the humans that work on that problem.
These two reports tie together both of those to some extent + are strongly reminiscent of the themes we've already touched on in this group:
- Eghbal: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure - this is sooo good and hits a lot of sore points e.g. "Until that moment, he had 'always assumed, (as had the rest of the world) that the OpenSSL team was large, active, and well resourced.' In reality, OpenSSL wasn’t even able to support one person’s work."
- Nickolls: Sustain: a One Day Conversation for Open Source Software Sustainers: The Report
More in the direction of archivists & challenges to the mechanics of stewarding data:
- Lippincot: Environmental Scan of Government Information and Data Preservation Efforts and Challenges
- Matheson: Preservation of Electronic Government Information: An Urgent National Priority
- These resources are pointed to by the PEGI Project National Forum Summary and Report
(Let me know if you have access to those? Not sure what their permissions are)
It would be really cool to round this stuff out with something more data-justice-y. This is an example of what I mean, though I've only read the abstract and am not a great source in general for data justice stewardship examples (though we def know people who are!)
This topic, like all of the topics we look at, is enormous and could go in a lot of directions. Feel free to use or not use my ideas as you see fit!
lightandluck
Gathering readings for July. Please drop anything that might be worth looking at into this issue.
/cc @Frijol @meiqimichelle