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Librarians are increasingly taking part in organizing, planning, and partnering on data-related events, trainings, and workshops. To better capture this knowledge, we started a project to collect data event narratives from different institutions. We first introduced
this idea at the <a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2016/" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit</a> held in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 4-6.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">One of the most challenging parts of the event planning process is learning the logistical and administrative details: What was the budget? Who did you partner with? How did you promote it -
and what was attendance like? Another challenge is collecting a variety of “lessons learned” information from colleagues. These details are what we are aiming to capture and share openly back with the broader community to provide easily accessible use cases
to compare and contrast. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Narratives have been contributed so far from institutions including Yale University, the University of Oklahoma, University of Michigan, University of Kansas, University of Colorado Boulder,
Oregon State University, and University of Wisconsin. <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7zo8yzNM-cAOUdBYTQ1RmpXWGs&usp=drive_web" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">
View these case studies through our public google drive folders</a>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data events never occur the same way twice, even when based on the same curriculum. Whether focused on tools, methods, types of data, archive practices, analysis methods, or some other aspect
of data work, please consider contributing a data event narrative. The path your event took to organize, fund, and execute will be unique and will contribute to the resource. Although we have specific subfolders for Day of Data, <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">Software
Carpentry</a>, <a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/" target="_blank">Data Carpentry</a>, and
<a href="https://cos.io/" target="_blank">Center for Open Science</a> workshops, we invite you to share events that do not fit these designations.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After collecting case studies from the community, we plan to publish the collection as an openly available project on the
<a href="https://osf.io/" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">
Open Science Framework</a>. To be included, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
please add your data event to the google drive folder by Friday, June 3</b>, for publication in July 2016. Contribute your data event using the template found here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/RDAP16" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/RDAP16</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any questions, please contact project organizers Brianna Marshall (brianna.marshall@wisc.edu) or Jamene Brooks-Kieffer (jamenebk@ku.edu). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks for considering sharing your experiences - and please pass this along to your colleagues!<br>
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Brianna Marshall</span></p>
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<p>Brianna Marshall<br>
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<p>Digital Curation Coordinator</p>
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<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
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