The Harvard University Archives (HUA) Collections Services unit is planning to implement the Joint Processing Guidelines on July 1, 2018.
In preparation, all Collections Services staff (including the Associate University Archivist for Collections and Public Services, the Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards; Collections Services Archivist/Processing Manager, and three Processing Archivists) read the Guidelines and participated in a discussion and question and answer session in early April 2018. I opened the conversation with an overview of...
Project Member Alexandra Wood presented “Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-technical Audience” as part of the Future of Privacy Forum De-identification 201: Differential Privacy Webinar on February 15th, 2018.
Privacy Tools Program Manager Kimia Mavon has been awarded the Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti Award for Mentoring and Community Building for her role as Manager of the Center for Research on Computation and Society. Kimia has served CRCS and Privacy Tools tirelessly for four years, coordinating all our projects and events. We're so pleased to honor her contribution to Harvard!
Fourth Sunday of Easter Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary. Sermon: The Wisdom of the Earth (mp3) Full service (mp3) |...
Thomas Sheehan, Associate University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, was introduced to music and the piano at a very young age. It...
Recently I had the chance to speak with Berit Gundersen at the University of the Pacific. As the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Gundersen lead the initiative to bring the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction survey to the University of the Pacific in 2014. In our discussion, she mentioned that even years later, faculty and administrators are discussing the results - even during a dinner at the President’s home this past spring. It made me wonder what aspects of their approach allowed the work to sustain itself for so long, so Berit and I dug in to try to understand what worked. Some themes began to appear that might be valuable for other institutions that wish to engage their faculty in data driven discussions.
We are extremely excited to announce the latest progression for our Dataverse community with the forming of a new Global Dataverse Community Consortium.
The vision is that the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) will provide international organization to existing community efforts and will provide a collaborative venue for institutions to leverage economies of scale in support of Dataverse repositories around the world. It is our intention that the consortium be community driven and ultimately the goals to be defined by the participants. But recent developments...
Haley Curtin ’18, of Adams House, speaks at Morning...
Recently I had the chance to speak with Berit Gundersen at the University of the Pacific. As the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Gundersen lead the initiative to bring the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction survey to the University of the Pacific in 2014. In our discussion, she mentioned that even years later, faculty and administrators are discussing the results - even during a dinner at the President’s home this past spring. It made me wonder what aspects of their approach allowed the work to sustain itself for so long, so Berit and I dug in to try to understand what worked. Some themes began to appear that might be valuable for other institutions that wish to engage their faculty in data driven discussions.