Government Records and Data Transparency in the Digital Age: Describing the Problem, Imagining SolutionsRachel Mattson(1),(2), Emily Knox (4),(8), Britt Paris (3),(5), Shari Laster (6),(7)
Organization(s): 1: XFR Collective; 2: DLF, Governent Records Transparency and Accountability Interest Group; 3: UCLA; 4: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; 5: Police-Involved Homicide Data Project; 6: University of California, Santa Barbara; 7: Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) project; 8: Mapping Information Access
How can information professionals support a broader culture of records transparency in a digital age? This session seeks to contribute to ongoing conversations by bringing together practitioners and scholars who have identified a specific threat to the public availability of government records/data, and devised a solution to address it.
