Tracing Our Data Lineage

Who are the beings, places, and entities that brought us to this field, practice, and our scholarship? How did this unique makeup of individuals make it into this room together at this moment? “Tracing Our Data Lineage” will create space for us to expand the citation apparatus and name the sources of our influence and support beyond those in the literature. Grounding the workshop, the facilitating presenter will first give a lightning talk to introduce their framing of data lineage, including examples from their own journey. Next, attendees will be guided through exercises using analog tools such as sticky notes and markers to document lineage points and identify connections, culminating in a collaboratively generated representation of our individual and collective lineages. In closing, we will reflect on the activity in small groups and then share out the insights we uncover. In the vein of thinkers such as Donna Haraway, this workshop invites us to interrogate the stories we tell about our past, present, and future. By giving recognition to the teachers, mentors, thought collaborators, peers, and co-creators who are less likely to make it into our bibliographies, we can grow our understanding and appreciation of who we are and who we want to be as a field and community. Objectives and hopeful outcomes: Reflect on the beings, places, and entities that have shaped our paths to research data and data librarianship. Collaboratively map and interconnect the diverse lineages of our data community. Explore how radical expansion of citation practices can better represent the network of our influences and foster a more inclusive data community.