Announcing the FAIR Data Stewardship Listserv |

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-09-10

Summary:

"Today 09 September 2021, the GO FAIR US office is announcing the FAIR Data Stewardship listserv, fair-data-stewardship@mit.edu. Subscribe to the listserv at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/fair-data-stewardship.

The idea for this listserv emerged out of the FAIR Data Stewardship interest group meeting hosted in late March, 2021, by Katie Knight and Chris Erdmann.

One of the pillars to emerge from discussions at this meeting was the decision to host an open email list about Data Stewardship. Inpsiration for the list initially stems from stories such as Katie’s where she found it difficult to find an open list where nuanced questions around topics such as metadata practices, can be asked or found via community discussion. An example Katie used was the Autocat listserv where cataloging experts share best practices around cataloging material. Having a virtual community, like Autocat, full of individuals with deep and broad domain knowledge available to ask for expertise, professional advice (anecdotal or otherwise), training events or webinars, and so on was essential, especially since at that time Katie worked as the sole metadata librarian at her institution and had no in-person colleagues to engage in these discussions with. Even monitoring such a listserv was educational, as she was able to follow certain discussion threads and learn by proxy...."

Link:

https://gofair.us/news/2021-09-09-announcing-fair-data-stewardship-listserv.html

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Date tagged:

09/10/2021, 09:46

Date published:

09/10/2021, 05:46