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Research data producers need to be rewarded and acknowledged for their work. The readers of your research also need to be able to track the sources you used, including the data. This is why data must be cited properly, just like books or papers. Our resident citations expert Catherine Brendow explains how.
Continue reading “Citing data : why you should, and how”
The theme for this year’s Love Data Week may be surprising. This festival celebrating everything research data is taking place on the same week as Valentine’s Day, as usual (February 10-14). The Geneva Graduate Institute Library is one of the many Swiss organisations who set up online events for the occasion.
Continue reading ““Whose data is it anyway?” #LDW25″
February 12-16 is International Love Data Week 2024. This year’s theme is “My Kind of Data”. The Geneva Graduate Institute Library is organising some events for the occasion, with support from the Tech Hub and the Research Office.
Continue reading “Register for Love data week!”
February 13-17 is International Love Data Week 2023. This year’s theme is “Data: Agent of Change”.
Data is the fundamental component upon which research results are based. You should treat it with love and care so that it can feed and nurture your ideas and reflections. Share it with the world or keep it safe, but make sure you manage it sustainably or it could turn into an ugly mess!
Trade, communication, and the visibility or privacy of marginalised groups also depend on data handling. Check out our display at the entrance of the Library for titles on data in society, research, and visualisation.
Keep an eye out for our upcoming data management training sessions. You can also choose from a long list of online events taking place worldwide this week to learn more about research data management, open data, visualisation, Wikidata and more, including some in Swiss institutions!
“Privacy as Virtue discusses whether a rights-based approach to privacy regulation still suffices to address the challenges triggered by new data processing techniques such as Big Data and mass surveillance. A rights-based approach generally grants subjective rights to individuals to protect their personal interests. However, large-scale data processing techniques often transcend the individual and their interests.
Virtue ethics is used to reflect on this problem and open up new ways of thinking. A virtuous agent not only respects the rights and interests of others, but also has a broader duty to act in the most careful, just and temperate way. This applies to citizens, to companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook and to governmental organizations that are involved with large scale data processing alike.
The author develops a three-layered model for privacy regulation in the Big Data era. The first layer consists of minimum obligations that are independent of individual interests and rights. Virtuous agents have to respect the procedural pre-conditions for the exercise of power. The second layer echoes the current paradigm, the respect for individual rights and interests. While the third layer is the obligation of aspiration: a virtuous agent designs the data process in such a way that human flourishing, equality and individual freedom are promoted.”
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781780686592
Publisher: Intersentia, 2017
Illustration (cropped): Allegory of Virtue, by Antonio da Corregio (c. 1531), public domain, via Wikipedia
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