The University of Victoria Libraries is participating in Endangered Data Week.
Join us on February 26, 2018 from 1pm and 4pm in the University Library foyer to play vintage video games and to learn about the problem of preserving obsolete technologies. Students will also learn how to protect their own data and will be given a free usb drive to encrypt (donated by the ETCL).
Endangered Data Week is a new, collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions, to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. The week’s events can promote care for endangered collections by: publicizing the availability of datasets; increasing critical engagement with them, including through visualization and analysis; and by encouraging political activism for open data policies and the fostering of data skills through workshops on curation, documentation and discovery, improved access, and preservation