I run Newspeak House, which is an institution working to do community development for groups producing political technology; this encompasses open gov, open science, open education, investigative journalism, collective action & decision-making, policy informatics, etc
Community development is critical to this ecosystem: no matter how open your data is, if you don't have a community, you won't have any reuse.
Communities produce artefacts like mailing lists, slack groups, repos, projects, events, hashtags... and a big part of the work we do at Newspeak House is mapping these artefacts; a lot of this is done informally with undiscoverable closed lists.
I'd like to design, produce and maintain a formal open repository of these artefacts, but I'm very close to the data so I'd like someone with a bit of distance to help me design it. Is there a librarian out there who could help me?
I run Newspeak House, which is an institution working to do community development for groups producing political technology; this encompasses open gov, open science, open education, investigative journalism, collective action & decision-making, policy informatics, etc
Community development is critical to this ecosystem: no matter how open your data is, if you don't have a community, you won't have any reuse.
Communities produce artefacts like mailing lists, slack groups, repos, projects, events, hashtags... and a big part of the work we do at Newspeak House is mapping these artefacts; a lot of this is done informally with undiscoverable closed lists.
I'd like to design, produce and maintain a formal open repository of these artefacts, but I'm very close to the data so I'd like someone with a bit of distance to help me design it. Is there a librarian out there who could help me?