status: Withdrawn
Chair (s): Inna Kouper, Andrew Maffei
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]
Status: Recognised & Endorsed
The global data use and sharing will be robust and sustainable only with the engagement and participation of diverse interesed audiences, including researchers, curators, administrators, and IT professionals. The Engagement Interest Group is a collaborative whose purpose is to stimulate broader awareness of data openness and exchange as well as to engage researchers, curators, and other audiences in the development and implementation of RDA decisions. The group is open for participation to anyone interested in needs assessment, user studies, ethnographic approaches to knowledge and science, as well as in history of changes in epistemic cultures and forms of knowledge production and dissemination.
The group is co-chaired by:
- Inna Kouper, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
- Andrew Maffei, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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Posts
data stories blog post
by Inna Kouper
If you haven't seen this yet, here is new data story about the International Polar Year 4 data management efforts, written by me with a quote from Mark Parsons: http://datastories.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/07/07/the-international-polar... Inna0 | Add new comment
update on data stories initiative
by Inna Kouper
Hi, here is a quick update on our data stories effort http://datastories.jiscinvolve.org/ I presented a poster about the data stories blog at the IASSIST conference on Wednesday, June 5. You can find the poster here http://www.slideshare.net/InnaKouper/telling-tales-the-power-of-data-sto... There was a good interest in the blog, I had several conversations that1 | Add new comment
Future directions survey - please participate
by Inna Kouper
Hi, you may have seen the invitation to participate in the RDA future directions survey. As the co-chair of this group, I've been involved in the development of this survey. Engagement is one of the three priorities in the future directions of RDA, so it'd be great if you all could provide your input of what RDA should do in the future and how. The survey can be found here https://rd-alliance.org/future-directions-rda-and-its-membership-involve...0 | Add new comment
breakout session summary from plenary 5
by Inna Kouper
Hi, this is a somewhat late update on the EIG breakout session at P5 in San Diego. A special thank you to Laura Molloy for taking notes during the session and sharing them with me. During the session I gave an update on the activities that the EIG is involved with, including the RDA group clustering https://rd-alliance.org/group/working-and-interest-group-chairs/post/rda... and the RDA Data Share program0 | Add new comment
RDA/DCC data stories blog officially out
by Inna Kouper
I'm pleased to report that the data stories blog, an effort coordinated by the Digital Curation Centre and our interest group is officially out http://datastories.jiscinvolve.org/ This effort will be the main focus of our break-out session at RDA. We hope that with your help the blog will truly be an international initiative useful in outreach, teaching, and research. So please contribute and spread the word. We'd appreciate feedback on tags and categories, methods for gathering1 | Add new comment
RDA plenary 5 program and our break-out session
by Inna Kouper
Hi, as some of you know the Plenary 5 program is posted and our session description is there as well. https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/fifth-plenary/programme.html https://rd-alliance.org/ig-engagement-p5-meeting-session.html-0 Our break-out session is on Monday, March 9 at 11:30am-1pm and we'll focus on our latest data stories initiative. Hope to see many of you there,0 | Add new comment
P4 breakout summary
by Inna Kouper
Greetings~ the summary of our breakout session from the 4th plenary is posted as a wiki page https://rd-alliance.org/group/engagement-ig/wiki/p4-breakout-summary.html and as a blog post http://inkouper.blogspot.com/2014/11/4th-rda-plenary-breakout-session-on.... Please feel free to re-share. In preparation to the next plenary, we're working on a form that will0 | Add new comment
plenary 4
by Inna Kouper
Greetings, if you plan to attend the plenary in Amsterdam, I hope you're considering joining our breakout session on Monday Sept 22 at 3:30-5pm. The agenda is posted here https://www.rd-alliance.org/engagement-interest-group.html In short, we plan to talk about what's been going on since the last plenary and have a presentation by Rene Patnode about the outcomes of his summer project. Also, we need to update our case statement / charter document0 | Add new comment
help needed with EIG internship project
by Inna Kouper
Greetings, if you haven't followed RDA news recently, there have been a couple of initiatives focusing on the engagement of US students and early career researchers (see here https://sites.google.com/a/umail.iu.edu/research-data-alliance-2/home-1). The Engagement group works with a PhD student Rene Patnode from UC San Diego on a project that focuses on interviewing members of the RDA domain-oriented groups. Below is a brief description of our questions and0 | Add new comment