Susan Noble kicked off a packed Pecha Kucha session with her talk, Datafication: Is That Really A Word? leave digital trails of data and our collective socio-economic activities are increasingly migrating to the internet in what is termed the ‘datafication’ of society. In line with the open access, open education and open data movements, where possible, the belarus rcs data UK Data Service offers its data openly. Susan discussed the big trends and the changes we are making to the Service to help UK Data Service users seize the benefits of this datafication of society – all in 6 minutes and 40 seconds!
IASSIST is an excellent way of networking with like-minded colleagues from across Europe, the USA, Canada and the rest of the world finding out more about the global data environment. It was particularly interesting to hear from organisations such as the ICPSR who have been carrying out environmental scanning and gap analysis work to identify emerging data trends and future data needs – the methods used and knowledge gained at this event will definitely feature in our own ‘dataset review’ work and other service development activities
We were also able to promote the UK Data Service and our UKDS.Stat platform, hopefully encouraging a whole new audience of international open data users across the globe!