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Data. Together. Let's read about it
About the Data Together Reading Group
Stewardship
Intro
Our selections this month begin with traditional notions and practices of stewardship. We then look briefly at present-day theory and principles around data preservation. We continue with 2 different studies of modern day institutions: an ecological research science network & an university library, and look at the continuing challenges they face and how they deal with data stewardship. Finally, we finish with a selection on the problems facing open-source software and how to sustain digital infrastructure.
Readings:
Optional:
Check-in: What is the oldest memory, story, lesson, heirloom, etc. that you hold or have received from your family, parents, ancestors?
Questions/Themes
1) Define & Redefine. How do we define Stewards/Stewardship? What are the qualities we start from and agree with? What can we learn from other traditions of stewardship? How did others pick up on the idea? How have your ideas changed or evolved over time?
2) Proper Use. With the drive towards digitalization and it's assumed reduced cost and ease-of-use, what are we losing by not interacting with data on a more visceral level? In what ways can we encourage the use of data so that people can have that sense of stewardship over their/our data?
Proper use/care is a quality for stewardship
Knowledge commons: without continuous use, the commons shrivels and dies (network effects), the tragedy of the anti-commons
3) Continuity & Severance. The need for institutions & a long-term perspective. If we assume continuity, as another quality of stewardship, where have we seen that continuity been severed in data stewardship?
4) Curation. We can't preserve everything, so what do we choose to steward and preserve? What should be forgotten? How do we identify areas in need of repair and maintenance?
I have hesitency about things like Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB), that have no way to edit posts. I want my art to be what remains, not my growing pains. I don't want my shame and mistakes to be entertainment or reason for capital punishment (cancel culture).
How does maintenance and repair figure into the conversation as we focus on technological innovation and new tools?
5) Stewarding the Stewards. Preservation is a neverending process and so requires continuous care of not just what is preserved, but the people, practices, and culture doing the preserving. What problems can we identify with how we care for the stewards? How do we approach and resolve those problems?
Issues with labor practices - EDGI has relied on the same volunteer labor and short-term contracts. If we see ourselves as helping to steward environmental data and governance, how do we reconcile those short-term labor practices vs. long-term visions & goals?
Reputation-based motivations - developers contribute to popular projects and do so until they get hired at some company/corporation
Open-source projects that are large enough to require funding and maintenance, but not popular enough to get the support they need.
6) Continuing, Repetition. Instead of how does this conversation end today; How do we continue these conversations, how do we continue preserving, how do we continue being good stewards?
Notes