{"id":10154,"date":"2018-03-26T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:25:13","slug":"10154-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/10154-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins Library Links: Bringing Open Data Home Through Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/2013_CollinsLibraryLink.jpg\" alt=\"2013_CollinsLibraryLink\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bringing Open Data Home Through Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/03\/DataEquity-outlined.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10156\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/03\/DataEquity-outlined.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a>Think about how to find information on quality daycare; or how to convince city council to support a new park; or a small business who would benefit from using local transportation data. What do these scenarios have in common?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open data can help answer their questions.<\/li>\n<li>Libraries can help provide them with the training they need to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Local, state and federal governments are releasing data &#8211; the public&#8217;s data &#8211; in new ways. They&#8217;re making it open, accessible and reusable. Organizations with large budgets and individuals with advanced technical skills will know how to find and use this information to their advantage.\u00a0 They&#8217;re creating new tools and advocating for their causes. But what about everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>Last year, two states &#8211; California and Washington \u2013 received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>By empowering librarians with the knowledge to find and use this data, and creating tools for libraries to teach everyone in their community to find and use this data, we hope to build the foundation for communities in which everyone &#8211; not just a select few who are already knowledgeable and skilled &#8211; shares in the benefit and promise of open data.<\/p>\n<p>Our team of librarians and open data advocates has now created a curriculum that libraries can use to help their communities find, use and improve open data. Collins Library is one of the first libraries to pilot the curriculum.\u00a0 Ben Tucker and Eli Gandour-Rood will be presenting a series of workshops on Open Data this April.\u00a0 Please contact Ben: <a href=\"mailto:btucker@pugetsound.edu\">btucker@pugetsound.edu<\/a> for further information.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Need Information?<\/strong> Don&#8217;t forget the Collins Memorial Library &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/research.pugetsound.edu\/\">Library Guides<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Questions?<\/strong> Contact your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/services\/ask-a-librarian\/library-liaison-program\/\">liaison librarian<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Comments:<\/strong> Contact <a href=\"mailto:jcarlin@pugetsound.edu\">Jane Carlin<\/a>, library director<br \/>\n<strong>Remember<\/strong> \u2013 Your best search engine is a librarian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing Open Data Home Through Libraries Think about how to find information on quality daycare; or how to convince city council to support a new park; or a small business who would benefit from using local transportation data. 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