Data in the project lifecycle

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Subtitle: one sentence on what it does, who is it for, and what is its goal

Outputs

A lightweight tool for data project implementers to help plan their projects and check whether they are being responsible with their data at every step, both for planned and emerging risks.

The pipeline was designed for civic data projects with some social mission. We specifically excluded projects run by governments and commercial projects - though it would be interesting to also try it with those.

Journalism was an interesting source of debate - in the end we decided that there was two sorts of journalism:

1. Journalism by conscientious journalists - who want to change the world with their work. 2. Journalism designed to sell newspapers.

We figured that the second might be a bit of a lost cause in terms of uptake - so we bore in mind only projects which we thought fitted into the first category.

Connection to previous RDFs

RDF NYC Primer for Responsible Data for Development Practitioners: https://github.com/nshamas/Responsible-Development-Data-Digital-Edition

Geeks without Bounds Whitepaper (RDF Oakland) http://gwob.org/blog/2014/07/19/publications/

Notes

We separated the projects into three main phases, and multiple phases within those projects.

Pre-Life

Life

Data After Life

Meta Zone

DISCLAIMER: This pipeline may be reductive / more useful in some contexts than others. For cases where we are not yet sure whether the methodology will work, or for cases for which the methodology was not designed - we have created a parking lot below - so that we can work out later whether we need to tweak the methodology or not.

Free Parking

The following items were 'parking lotted' - as we have not yet tested whether they would be caught out by this pipeline - please add yours here!

  • 'Big Data Projects' (yes, we know Big Data is not a thing - but the question was raised)
  • [Add yours here]


Audience

This is for the implementers of a data project. (We considered breaking down specific roles and defining who should be asking which question when - but ran out of time).

Next steps

  • Define who should be asking each question


Contributors

Food for thought

  • concepts, problems
  • questions to ask frequently
  • preventions: what do you actually do in concrete terms to prevent these things from happening
  • reactions: responsible responses for when things go wrong

Resources (we <3 links!)

Feel free to link any and all background material, additional info, useful resources, etc. The more the merrier!

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