Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
The Real-Time City? Data-driven, networked urbanism and the production of sm...robkitchin
Keynote talk presented at IGU Urban conference in Dublin, August 9th. The paper discusses the transition from data-informed to data-driven, smart cities and the impact of such a transition on city governance and wider society.
Crowdsourcing Approaches for Smart City Open Data ManagementEdward Curry
A wide-scale bottom-up approach to the creation and management of open data has been demonstrated by projects like Freebase, Wikipedia, and DBpedia. This talk explores how to involving a wide community of users in collaborative management of open data activities within a Smart City. The talk discusses how crowdsourcing techniques can be applied within a Smart City context using crowdsourcing and human computation platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Mobile Works, and Crowd Flower.
Talk delivered at London Natural History Museum's "Informatics Horizons for the Natural History Museum" video and programme here
http://scratchpads.eu/NHMInformaticsday
The 2018 Annual Report details exploratory research conducted by the Pulse Labs and presents solutions that were mainstreamed with partners.
It summarized the adoption of the first UN Principles for Personal Data Protection and Privacy, and showcases Global Pulse's contributions to develop standards and national strategies for the ethical and privacy protective use of big data and artificial intelligence.
Finally, the report highlights Global Pulse's engagement with the data innovation ecosystem through capacity building, collaborative research, and responsible data partnerships.
In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and protocols that allow us to easily read and analyze the data with the tools of our choice. We need to be able to trust the source and derivation of the data. In short, we need an interoperable data infrastructure, but it must be a flexible infrastructure able to work across myriad cultures, scales, and technologies. This talk will present a concept of infrastructure as a body of human, organisational, and machine relationships built around data. It will illustrate how a new organization, the Research Data Alliance, is working to build those relationships to enable functional data sharing and reuse.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
A discussion of the role of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies in the managing of large amounts of data for researchers, focusing in particular on searchability and data visualization. Presented by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations, Inc., for the SLA Military Libraries Division 2013 Workshop, December 12, 2013.
Bretton Woods of the Knowledge Economy - IFKAD Keynote 2009 (Scotland)Debra M. Amidon
This presentation poses the current economic meltdown in a 'trapeze parable' - suspension between the old rules that do not apply and the new ones to be innovated. Content includes: the new Triple Knowledge Lens (TKL) for performance, provides a tour of Knowledge Innovation Zones (KIZ) worldwide, and suggests a P7 KIZ Blueprint to operationalize knowledge innovation programs. The conclusion makes the case for a new Bretton Woods to capitalize upon the challenges and opportunities afforded by a Knowledge Economy.
The Real-Time City? Data-driven, networked urbanism and the production of sm...robkitchin
Keynote talk presented at IGU Urban conference in Dublin, August 9th. The paper discusses the transition from data-informed to data-driven, smart cities and the impact of such a transition on city governance and wider society.
Crowdsourcing Approaches for Smart City Open Data ManagementEdward Curry
A wide-scale bottom-up approach to the creation and management of open data has been demonstrated by projects like Freebase, Wikipedia, and DBpedia. This talk explores how to involving a wide community of users in collaborative management of open data activities within a Smart City. The talk discusses how crowdsourcing techniques can be applied within a Smart City context using crowdsourcing and human computation platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Mobile Works, and Crowd Flower.
Talk delivered at London Natural History Museum's "Informatics Horizons for the Natural History Museum" video and programme here
http://scratchpads.eu/NHMInformaticsday
The 2018 Annual Report details exploratory research conducted by the Pulse Labs and presents solutions that were mainstreamed with partners.
It summarized the adoption of the first UN Principles for Personal Data Protection and Privacy, and showcases Global Pulse's contributions to develop standards and national strategies for the ethical and privacy protective use of big data and artificial intelligence.
Finally, the report highlights Global Pulse's engagement with the data innovation ecosystem through capacity building, collaborative research, and responsible data partnerships.
In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and protocols that allow us to easily read and analyze the data with the tools of our choice. We need to be able to trust the source and derivation of the data. In short, we need an interoperable data infrastructure, but it must be a flexible infrastructure able to work across myriad cultures, scales, and technologies. This talk will present a concept of infrastructure as a body of human, organisational, and machine relationships built around data. It will illustrate how a new organization, the Research Data Alliance, is working to build those relationships to enable functional data sharing and reuse.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
A discussion of the role of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies in the managing of large amounts of data for researchers, focusing in particular on searchability and data visualization. Presented by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations, Inc., for the SLA Military Libraries Division 2013 Workshop, December 12, 2013.
Bretton Woods of the Knowledge Economy - IFKAD Keynote 2009 (Scotland)Debra M. Amidon
This presentation poses the current economic meltdown in a 'trapeze parable' - suspension between the old rules that do not apply and the new ones to be innovated. Content includes: the new Triple Knowledge Lens (TKL) for performance, provides a tour of Knowledge Innovation Zones (KIZ) worldwide, and suggests a P7 KIZ Blueprint to operationalize knowledge innovation programs. The conclusion makes the case for a new Bretton Woods to capitalize upon the challenges and opportunities afforded by a Knowledge Economy.
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Cottbus Brandenburg University of Technology Lecture series on Smart RegionsCritically Assembling Data, Processes & Things: Toward and Open Smart CityJune 5, 2018
This lecture will critically focus on smart cities from a data based socio-technological assemblage approach. It is a theoretical and methodological framework that allows for an empirical examination of how smart cities are socially and technically constructed, and to study them as discursive regimes and as a large technological infrastructural systems.
The lecture will refer to the research outcomes of the ERC funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University and will feature examples of empirical research conducted in Dublin and other Irish cities.
In addition, the lecture will discuss the research outcomes of the Canadian Open Smart Cities project funded by the Government of Canada GeoConnections Program. Examples will be drawn from five case studies namely about the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Ottawa and Montreal, and the Ontario Smart Grid as well as number of international best practices. The recent Infrastructure Canada Canadian Smart City Challenge and the controversial Sidewalk Lab Waterfront Toronto project will also be discussed.
It will be argued that no two smart cities are alike although the technological solutionist and networked urbanist approaches dominate and it is suggested that these kind of smart cities may not live up to the promise of being better places to live.
In this lecture, the ideals of an Open Smart City are offered instead and in this kind of city residents, civil society, academics, and the private sector collaborate with public officials to mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical, accountable and transparent way in order to govern the city as a fair, viable and livable commons that balances economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility. Although an Open Smart City does not yet exist, it will be argued that it is possible.
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled, but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg). For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018 hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
CHRISTINA NGUYEN, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
Presentation #2:Open/Big Urban DataLessons Learned from the Programmable City ProjectMansion House, Dublin, May 9th, 201810am-2pmhttp://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/2018/03/lessons-for-smart-cities-from-the-programmable-city-project/
Data revolution or data divide? Can social movements bring the human back int...mysociety
This was presented by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach from the University of Amsterdam at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
"Infrastructure, relationships, trust, and RDA" presentation given by Mark Parsons, RDA Secretary General at the eInfrastructures & RDA for Data Intensive Science Workshop - held prior to the RDA 6th Plenary, Paris, 22 September 2015.
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Knowledge Engineering, Electronic Government and the applications to Scientom...Roberto C. S. Pacheco
Presentation at 2nd International Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, organized by KAWAX, in Santiago - Chile (17 and january, Chile).
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
The seminar makes an approach to the concept of e-Readiness from the point of view of capacitation and digital literacy.
Different kinds or steps of digital literacy are presented and, then, the concept of e-Readiness is questioned, making it evolve towards the concept of e-Awareness.
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Optimising benefits from Canadian Research - Jim WoodgettCASRAI
Janet Halliwell, Chair CASRAI; Co-Chair Admin Burden Canada collective; Chair CSPC
Dominique Bérubé, Vice-President Research Programs, SSHRC
Jim Woodgett, Director of Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Optimising benefits from Canadian Research - Janet HalliwellCASRAI
Janet Halliwell, Chair CASRAI; Co-Chair Admin Burden Canada collective; Chair CSPC
Dominique Bérubé, Vice-President Research Programs, SSHRC
Jim Woodgett, Director of Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Admin Burden in Canada (ABC) Introductory Panel Discussion (CA, UK and US ove...CASRAI
Admin Burden in Canada (ABC) Introductory Panel Discussion (CA, UK and US overview)
David Robinson
Executive Vice Provost & Professor
Oregon Health & Science University (US)
ABC Project 1 - Piloting Auto-upload of Standardized Funding Award Results - ...CASRAI
ABC Project 1 - Piloting Auto-upload of Standardized Funding Award Results
Judith L. Chadwick
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services
University of Toronto
Bob Dirstein
Dirstein Consulting Inc.
w/University of Toronto
ABC Project 2 - Launching an ORCID Consortia in Canada - Clare Appavoo & Geof...CASRAI
Launching an ORCID Consortia in Canada
Clare Appavoo
Executive Director
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
Geoffrey Harder
Associate University Librarian
University of Alberta
Mark Leggott
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Research Data Canada (RDC)
Introduction to the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) of the US - David...CASRAI
Introduction to the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) of the US
David Robinson
Executive Vice Provost & Professor
Oregon Health & Science University (US)
Tutorial: the new Portage Research Data Management Planning Tool - Chuck Hump...CASRAI
Tutorial: the new Portage Research Data Management Planning Tool
Chuck Humphrey
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University of Alberta
Dylanne Dearborn
Physics Library
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How Do I Know Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: Panel 2: Jeffrey Alexander & Patri...CASRAI
All R&D organizations classify their research activities, either implicitly (e.g., by laboratory or department) or explicitly (e.g., by creating taxonomies to define and map research disciplines and domains). However the lack of clear standards for doing so impedes the sharing and aggregation of data on R&D activities. In this panel the speakers will provide an overview of the organizational needs driving the development of a classification of R&D activities, use cases for such a classification, and the potential advantages of international coordination across such classifications.
Classifying R&D: Why and How Organizations Develop Taxonomies for Research Fi...CASRAI
All R&D organizations classify their research activities, either implicitly (e.g., by laboratory or department) or explicitly (e.g., by creating taxonomies to define and map research disciplines and domains). However the lack of clear standards for doing so impedes the sharing and aggregation of data on R&D activities. In this workshop, Jeff Alexander and Patrick Lambe will provide an overview of the organizational needs driving the development of a classification of R&D activities, use cases for such a classification, and the potential advantages of international coordination across such classifications. The workshop, based heavily on a study they conducted for the National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics at the U.S. National Science Foundation, will review alternate approaches to both developing R&D classifications, and streamlining the process of classifying research programs and projects. Topics to be covered include examples of international R&D classifications and their development (such as the Australia-New Zealand Standard Research Classification), design principles for R&D classifications, and new automated and semi-automated classification techniques using semantic analysis and machine learning.
How Do I Know Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: Sarah Moreault, Monica Valsangkar-...CASRAI
Classification of research plays an integral role in the functioning of research funding organizations. As such it is important to have a classification system for efficient research data collection, use, analysis and reporting. Hear about lessons learned as well as key limitations and challenges for the implementation of a standard approach to classification through the analyses of different international standards currently in use with respect to their governance, development, implementation and maintenance
Over the past 10 years, research systems have evolved from systems that focused on how to structure and record information on research, to systems capable of allowing significant insights to be derived based upon years of high quality information. In 2015, the maturity of the information now collected within many Current Research Information Systems, and the insights that this can provide is of equal or greater value than the insights that could be gleaned from established externally provided research metrics platforms alone. The ability to intersect these external and internal worlds provides new levels of strategic insight not previously available. With the addition of platforms that track altmetrics, and their ability to connect university publications data with a constant flow of real time attention level metrics, an image of a dynamic network of systems emerges, connected together by ever turning ‘cogs’ pushing and translating information. Add to this, the success of ORCID as pervasive researcher identifier infrastructure, and CASRAI as the emerging social contract for information exchange, and it becomes possible to extend this network back from the systems that track and record research information, through to the platforms through which research knowledge is created. The ‘Mechanics’ of this network of systems is more than just getting the ‘plumbing’ right. As research information moves through the network, its audience and purpose changes, the requirements for contextual metadata can also change. This presentation will explore the lived experience of Research Data Mechanics at Digital Science though illustrating how connections between Figshare, Altmetric, Symplectic Elements, and Dimensions can both enhance research system capability and reduce the burden on researchers, and research administration.
Provincial Perspectives on Research Impacts: Eddy Nason, Renata Osika, Krista...CASRAI
When we say “Research Impact” many things come to mind and the reasons for why we are concerned with it vary. The underlying concepts are complex and often require expert knowledge, and there is also no one single interpretation or answer. Stakeholders are diverse and so are the means of communication. Therefore across Canada, we continue to seek more consistent and harmonized ways of telling the “Impact Story.” The panel will reflect on harmonization efforts across provinces.
Lightning Reports on 2015 CASRAI Standards Work: Data Management PlanCASRAI
Get an overview of all CASRAI standards projects from the past year delivered by the project leads. Includes Project CRediT, Peer Review Citations, Snowball Metrics, Data Management Plans, Open Access Reporting and Organizational ID standards.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
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Keynote: Today's Data Grow Tomorrow's Citizens - Tracey P. Lauriault
1. "Today's Data Grow Tomorrow's Citizens"
What? Research data management, citizenship and democracy?
Keynote, CASRAI Reconnect 16
Toronto, Ontario, October 24, 2016, 13:30-14:15
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault - orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
Critical Media and Big Data
Media Studies and Communication
School of Journalism and Communication
Carleton University
Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca
http://del.icio.us/tlauriau
2. Do we live in a data based
technological society?
5. Technological and empirical
fundamentalism?
Technopolitical Regime
• Grounded in institutions, linked sets of people, engineering and
industrial practices, technological artifacts, political programs and
institutional ideologies which act together to govern technological
development and pursue technopolitics (Hetch)
• Large technopolitical regimes (Hetch) with momentum (Hughes,
Feenberg) exhibiting infrastructural determinism (Lauriault & Lenczner)
• Invisible, human built technological fabric of society (Hayes)
6. Is there technical agency?
• Technology & data shape everyday life, similarly to law it shapes &
provides a framework of our existence, for how we do things
• Technocratic ideology:
• Technocrats are members of a technical elite, they rely on technical experts
• Technical experts are scientists, engineers, statisticians, technologists, etc.
• In this ideology, agency is not possible, because technical expertise is required
in order to act, the knowledge component of agency is lacking
“Increased level of abstractness makes it more and more challenging for
laypersons and politicians to understand the functioning of contemporary
artefacts and infrastructures”
Feenberg (2011)
Kubitschko (2015)
11. 20101990 1995 2000 2005
National Data Archive
Consultation
(SSHRC)
Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis
The dissemination of government geographic data in
Canada: guide to best practices
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
Toward a National Digital Information Strategy:
Mapping the Current Situation in Canada (LAC)
Canadian Digital
Information
Strategy (CDIS)
(LAC)
IPY
1985 2014
Open Data
Consultations
Mapping the Data
Landscape:
Report of the
2011 Canadian
Research Data
Summit
Digital Economy Consultation,
Industry Canada
Community Data Roundtable
Privacy (Geo)
Sensitive Data (Geo)
Resolution of
Canada’s Access to Information and
Privacy
Commissioners
Geomatics Accord Signed
Canadian Geospatial Data Policy
Liberating the Data Proposal
VGI Primer
Cloud (Geo)
OD Advisory
Panel
OGP
G8
Subjectivities &
Forms of Knowledge
• Policies
• Reports
• Proposals
• Recommendations
• Consultation
Research
Data
Canada
Archiving, Management and
Preservation of Geospatial Data
National Consultation on Access to
Scientific Data Final Report
(NCASRD)
2008
12. 20101990 1995 2000 20051985 2014
Data
Liberation
Initiative (DLI)
Geogratis Data
Portal
GeoBase
Canadian
Internet
Public Policy
Clinic
Maps Data and Government
Information Services (MADGIC)
Carleton U
GeoConnections
GeoGratis
Census Data Consortium
Canadian Association of
Research Libraries
(CARL)
Atlas of Canada
Online (1st)
CeoNet Discovery
Portal
Research Data
Network
How'd they Vote
CivicAccess.ca
Campaign for
Open
Government
(FIPA)
Canadian
Association of
Public Data
Users
Datalibre.ca
VisibleGovernment.ca
I Believe in Open Campaign
Change Camps Start
Nanaimo BC
Toronto
Open Data Portals
Edmonton
Mississauga launches open data
Citizen Factory
B.C.'s Climate Change Data Catalogue
Open Parliament
DatadotGC.ca
Ottawa
Ottawa, Prince George, Medicine Hat
Data.gc.ca
Global TV
Hansard in XML
Langley
Let the Data Flow
GovCamp
Fed. Expenses
Montreal Ouvert
Fed.Gov. Travel and
Hospitality Expenses
London
Hamilton
Windsor
Open Data Hackfest
Aid Agency
Proactive.ca
DataBC
Hacking
Health
14 Cities
Quebec
Ontario
OGP
3 Cities
Alberta
G8
Community Data Program
FCM Quality of Life Reporting
System
Geographic and
Numeric Information
System (GANIS)
Materialities / Infrastructures
• Consortia
• Portals/Catalogs
• Maps
• Open data/Open Gov Events
2009
14. Critical Data Studies Vision
Unpack the complex assemblages that produce, circulate, share/sell and
utilise data in diverse ways;
Chart the diverse work they do and their consequences for how the
world is known, governed and lived-in;
Survey the wider landscape of data assemblages and how they interact
to form intersecting data products, services and markets and shape
policy and regulation.
Kitchin and Lauriault (Forthcoming 2017)
15. Data – big or small (& infrastructures)
Are more than a unique arrangement of objective and politically neutral
facts
&
they do not exist independently of ideas, techniques, technologies, systems,
people and contexts regardless of them being presented in that way.
Lauriault (2012)
16. Data Assemblage
Kitchin’s Data Assemblage, 2015
Material Platform
(infrastructure – hardware)
Code Platform
(operating system)
Code/algorithms
(software)
Data(base)
Interface
Reception/Operation
(user/usage)
Systems of thought
Forms of knowledge
Finance
Political economies
Governmentalities & legalities
Organisations and institutions
Subjectivities and communities
Marketplace
System/process
performs a task
Context
frames the system/task
Digital socio-technical assemblage
HCI, remediation studies
Critical code studies
Software studies
Critical data studies
New media studies
game studies
Critical Social Science
Science Technology Studies
Platform studies Places
Practices
Flowline/Lifecycle
Surveillance studies
18. Agency and Citizenship in a
Technological Society
“Citizenship implies agency, but what is agency and how is agency
possible in a technologically [data based] advanced society where so
much of life is organized around technological [data driven] systems
commanded by experts?”
Feenberg (2011)
19. Technological Citizenship
• Agency = Capacity to act
• Capacity to act implies 3 conditions:
1. Knowledge
2. Power
3. Appropriate occasion to act
Ex. Politics – Citizen agency is the legitimate right and power to
influence political events
• Need to close the expert-public gap
• Strengthen the ability of citizens to gain understanding of complex issues that co-determine
socio-technical outcomes
Feenberg (2011)
20. Expert Culture
• Technology is complicated
• Expert public gap
• Experts are called upon to play a role in helping citizens to fulfill their role in democratic
constellations by strengthening citizen’s abilities to deliberate and debate public issues
• Democracy and expertise
• What an expert is, is conditioned by social realties
• Forms and modes shift with political landscape
• Expertise
• High level of knowledge, skills and experience
Kubitschko (2015)
21. CASRAI
You are technical experts building a [the] research data management
infrastructure
You are creating a technological framework
…in the infrastructural trenches - standards, code, metadata,
agreements, processes, procedures, regulation…
You are a social-technological network
…tackling the technocrats…
You are engaged in databased technological politics - for a long time
And there is a high degree of abstractness in what you do
22. Technological Citizenship
• Are you doing this to make a Research Data Management Infrastructure?
…better system, robust standards, solid agreements, persistent UIDs?
• Or is it more about
• you being the technological experts, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data
so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our data and technological literacy in order
to build upon collective/collected knowledge?
• good technological and data based governance to enable knowledge production?
If that is you, then I hope you will mobilize your expert knowledge, your specialized
data and technological power and act in such a way that we may have a literate and
numerate democratic technological society.
23. Data and technological literacy, I believe, is indispensable in
the current democratic system, and that requires having
access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and
technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to
sustainably care for them.
I consider research data management to be our duty.
24. References
• Barney, Darin. (2004) Network Technology, Chapter 2 in The Network Society, Cambridge: Polity Press. pp.34-68.
• Barney, Darin (2005) The Problem of Education in Technological Society, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge
and Society, Vol. 1
• Feenberg, Andrew, (2011), Agency and Citizenship in a Technological Society. Lecture presented to the Course on Digital
Citizenship in a Technological Society, IT University of Copenhagen, pp. 1-13, http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/copen5-1.pdf
• Kitchin, Rob (2014) The Data Revolution, Sage.
• Kitchin,Rob and Tracey P. Lauriault, Forthcoming, Toward a Critical Data Studies: Charting and Unpacking Data
Assemblages and their Work, in J. Eckert,, A. Shears & J. Thatcher, Geoweb and Big Data, University of Nebraska
Press , Pre-Print http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2474112
• Kubitschko, Sebastian, (2015), Hackers’ media practices: Demonstrating and articulating expertise as interlocking
arrangements, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2015, Vol. 21(3) 388–402.
DOI: 10.1177/1354856515579847
• Lauriault, Tracey P. (2012), Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations. Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University,
Ottawa, http://curve.carleton.ca/theses/27431
• Lauriault, Tracey P. and O'Hara, Kathryn, Working Paper: 2015 Canadian Election Platforms: Long-Form Census, Open
Data, Open Government, Transparency and Evidence Based Policy and Science (October 28, 2015). Available at
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2682638 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2682638
25. Abstract
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert
citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need
to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell).
While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and
quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to
critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship
requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books,
government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the
prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing
institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store,
manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our
literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the
current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures -
knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for
them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University
26. Bio
• Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and
Communication, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is also a research Associate with the European Research
Council (ERC) funded Programmable City Project, directed by Professor Rob Kitchin in Ireland and with The Geomatics
and Cartographic Research Centre in Canada directed Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor.
• Her research domain is critical data studies and she is actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to data with
civil society and government. Her ongoing research with the Programmable City Project entails three case studies investigating
How digital data materially and discursively are supported and processed about cities and their citizens? At the Geomatics
and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), she is involved in the archiving and preservation of geospatial data; legal and
policy issues associated with data. As a consultant she has developed indicators of absolute and the risk of homelessness for
the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Quality of Life Reporting System and has coordinated the Canadian Council
on Social Development Community Data Program.
• As a citizen, she is engaged in the promotion of evidence-informed decision-making as part of democratic deliberation and
actively advances those issues within civil society organizations, academic institutions and government. This includes activities
related to open data and open government in Canada, the Republic of Ireland and internationally. She is also the recipient
of the Canadian Open Data Leadership award.
Editor's Notes
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The practices of everyday life and the places in which we live are now augmented, monitored and regulated by dense assemblages of data-enabled and data-producing infrastructures and technologies, such as:
traffic management systems http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/video-walls/video-wall-and-control-room-case-studies/video-wall-and-control-room-installations/Pages/Burlington-COMPASS-Intelligent-Traffic-System-Video-Wall-Solution.aspx
building management systems, http://www.wirelessintegrated.com/building-management-system.html
surveillance http://www.cecomtechnology.com/cctv.html biometrics http://sifs.in/blog/biometrics-life-measurements/
and policing systems, integrated with safety and emergency response http://en.datanggroup.cn/templates/10ProductsServices%20Content%20Page/index.aspx?nodeid=148&page=ContentPage&contentid=241
government databases, Obamacare http://www.therightplanet.com/2013/10/obamasoft-the-worlds-worst-rollout-in-history/
customer management systems http://www.cerillion.com/en/solutions/total-convergence and
logistic chains, http://www.supplychain247.com/article/ups_logistics_a_masterpiece_of_streamlined_supply_chain_management/green
financial http://cognited.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/financial-systems.jpgand
payment systems http://www.ananyawebsoft.com/online-payment-systems/, and
Locative media http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/8/eng/index.htmland
social media http://emarketingblog.nl/2014/11/how-do-you-choose-social-media-platforms-for-your-company-2/.
Mediate culture and society by constructing stories which create representations around which subjects are created & actions are taken shaping and shaped by geographic imaginations
Technopolitical Regime – grounded in institutions, linked sets of people, engineering and industrial practices, technological artifacts, political programs and institutional ideologies which act together to govern technological development and pursue technopolitics (Hetch)
Information Ecology – people, practices, values, technologies in a particular environment with systems, diverse, that coevolve with keystone species and locality
Properties – embedded, transparent, reach, learned, linked to conventions, standards, dependency, visibility, incrementally fixed
Power/knowledge – lies in its momentum, invisibility, path dependencies and how it explictly determines the actions of its users, contributors and maintainers.
Data & infrastructure are essential for governing
What if a brilliantly engineered idea is not so good for the users, or there are medical consequences for the workers?
It gets deployed, medical complications ensue and another specialization has to be called in to deal with the non engineering consequences
Who gets to intervene in the decision making behind a technology? When limitations are seen?
Data power is ubiquitous, intangible and normalized.
Data infrastructures, are invisible, systemic, and the substrate of society.
Predictive policing
Credit Score
Image sources in order:
Data is power: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/data-power
Hitachi: http://www.channelworld.in/media-releases/hitachi-data-systems-unveils-advancements-in-predictive-policing
Minority Report: http://lettherebemovies.com/2014/08/30/review-elliott-minority-report/
Person of Interest: http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Samaritan
http://www.predpol.com/
Predictive Policing Manchester: https://www.ironsidegroup.com/2015/10/06/ironside-case-study-manchester-pds-predictive-policing-success/
Ferguson Paramilitary Police: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/18/more_fergusons_are_coming_why_para_military_hysteria_is_dooming_america/
Credit Score: http://illinoisbankruptcyattorney.cc/what-is-a-good-credit-score/
Credit Score email: https://blog.creditkarma.com/wp-content/October-infographic-copy.png
Credit Score Dating: http://creditscoredating.com/
Student Loans Ontario: https://osap.gov.on.ca/OSAPPortal/en/PlanYourEducation/ChooseaCareerSchoolProgram/PRDR012287.html
Data for Good: https://realimpactanalytics.com/en/data-for-good
Philanthropy: http://ajah.ca/
Not all political parties included all these issues in their platforms, note some of the absences by the Conservatives, and the Bloc while the NDP, Liberals and the Greens made these key platform commitments. How they did so differed greatly, especially when it comes to Science.
Source: General Dynamics IT Publish Health Data Whitepapers, 2014, http://www.itwnetworks.com/blog/view/general-dynamics-it-publish-health-data-whitepapers