Civic Switchboard Guide
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Introduction
About
Context and Concepts
Engaging Partners
Understanding Your Ecosystem
Library Roles
Connecting data users
Connecting data producers
Showing the importance of civic data
Developing civic data literacy
Advocating for ethical, responsible, and accessible civic data
Making civic data more usable
Providing expertise on data management
Creating civic data
Using civic data
Publishing civic data
Archiving civic data
Increasing the library's capacity to do all of the above
Selected Resources
Maintaining Momentum
Case Studies 2019
Case Studies 2020
Additional Resources
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Publishing civic data
What's the need?
  • Many municipalities and regions have open data to share but need an institution to manage or coordinate a centralized data collection.
Why the library?
  • Libraries are trusted stewards of information and library workers have considerable expertise in managing data and protecting privacy.
  • Libraries are leading many digital inclusion and data literacy efforts in their communities.
  • As the priorities of elected officials change, having a third-party entity like a library host data from government organizations and other partners can also help to sustain community data initiatives.
What you can do:
  • Publish available non-sensitive public information (ex. Census data) about your community
  • Build a prototype program using cloud-based data storage services like Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive to host data
  • Manage a civic data portal
Inspiration:
Resources you can use:
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