Curating Data Workshops

Hands-on workshop exploring Obsidian as a tool for knowledge management and data curation. Learned to create interconnected notes, build knowledge graphs, and organize information through linking and tagging systems.

Explored curating everyday digital objects through data and metadata practices. This hands-on workshop examined how physical objects become digital data, focusing on the processes of datafication and the politics of what gets included or excluded in datasets.

Explored synthetic data generation and its implications for data-intensive capitalism. Examined how synthetic data can serve as an alternative to surveillance capitalism while maintaining analytical utility for machine learning and research purposes.

Examined the material aspects of information systems, focusing on spreadsheets as fundamental data infrastructure. Explored how digital traces are organized and curated into actionable information within organizational contexts.

Focused on decolonial approaches to knowledge representation in Wikidata, with a special emphasis on the Liao Huanxing case and the Dekoloniale project. Explored how taxonomies and data structures can perpetuate or challenge colonial legacies in digital collections.

Explored the use of SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service for knowledge making and data analysis. Participants learned to construct queries and analyze structured data in Wikidata, deepening their understanding of semantic web technologies and classification systems.

Explored algorithmic categorization through recommender systems, focusing on music recommendation algorithms. Examined the ethical challenges of recommendation systems and how algorithms shape taste and cultural consumption patterns.

Hands-on workshop focusing on visualizing personal data using visual analytics principles. Applied Tufte's concepts of graphical excellence to create meaningful visualizations of individual datasets and explored comprehensive approaches to visual data analysis.

Practical visualization exercise using the famous Titanic dataset to explore relationships between social class, demographics, and survival rates. Applied critical visualization techniques to examine historical inequalities through data.

Explored critical approaches to data visualization inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits and Data Feminism principles. Examined how visualizations can challenge dominant narratives and incorporate multiple perspectives, questioning rational, scientific, objective viewpoints from mythical, imaginary, impossible standpoints.

Archive workshop exploring digital preservation, the politics of archival systems, and understanding how archives shape collective memory and knowledge preservation practices. Examined FAIR and CARE principles for ethical data management.

Examined the materiality and geopolitics of data storage, focusing on Nordic data center development and the challenges between transnational capitalism and data sovereignty in cloud computing. Explored the environmental and political implications of data infrastructure.

Examined the materiality and geopolitics of data storage, focusing on Nordic data center development and the challenges between transnational capitalism and data sovereignty in cloud computing. Explored the environmental and political implications of data infrastructure.