# Providing expertise on data management

**What's the need?** 

* Many civic organizations produce data and need support with managing and versioning files, standardizing data-related practices, addressing data privacy, determining retention of data, sharing data appropriately, and more.
* Many data publishers (such as managers of open data portals) need support with metadata and vocabularies, format standards, technical infrastructure strategies, and more. 
* Many data users need strategies for personal data practices, including naming, labeling, storage, backups, deleting, and more. 

**Why the library?**  

* Library workers have the skills to provide data management and data hosting services to organizations that may not otherwise have internal capacity to treat their data as an asset. 

**What you can do:**

* Consult with data producers, publishers, and users on: 
  * Metadata used for datasets and data portals
  * Technical infrastructure for repositories
  * Data management planning
  * Protecting privacy when data sharing

**Inspiration:**

* Pittsburgh, PA: [University of Pittsburgh Library System and Western PA Regional Data Center](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VO6GGw7e7gN4lXHFeNnZcfVQsal-SZPS_0DbBCxgZAk/edit#slide=id.p) metadata collaboration

**Resources you can use:**

* Project Open Data. [Project Open Data Metadata Schema](https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/) 
* World Wide Web Consortium. [Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/) 
* World-Wide Web Consortium.  [Data on the Web Best Practices](https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/)
* Force11: [The FAIR Data Principles ](https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples)
* Green, B., Cunningham, G., Ekblaw, A., & Kominers, P. (2017). [Open Data Privacy](https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2924751). *SSRN Electronic Journal*
* Data SF [4 Steps to Manage Privacy and De-Identification for your Open Data Program](https://datasf.org/blog/4-steps-to-manage-privacy-and-de-identification-for-your-open-data-program/)
* Borgman, Christine (2018). [Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier](https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02953). *Berkeley Technology Law Journal*, 33:2, 365-412