Workshop: Responsible Data Curation and Reuse in the Age of AI
The Just Sustainability Design Lab at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information invites you to join us for an online open workshop session on ‘Responsible Data Curation and Reuse in the Age of AI’ on November 25, 2024 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
In this workshop, we will share past and ongoing research projects from the lab and invite others to share their research and perspectives. Please find the speakers’ bios below. We look forward to your participation!
Register here for the workshop: https://forms.office.com/r/rFEqpaurav.
Eshta Bhardwaj: Eshta Bhardwaj is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information studying data practices in machine learning. Her research interests include examining how dataset development processes within machine learning research can be improved with the adoption of data curation principles and concerns of fairness, accountability, and transparency in data work. In this talk, she will present two phases of an ongoing research project which establishes how data curation principles can be applied to curate ML datasets.
Ciara Zogheib: Ciara Zogheib is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her current research explores the information practices of cross-domain data work. More broadly, her research interests are in data studies, information practice, and interdisciplinarity. In the talk, she discusses that within the context of interdisciplinary and collaborative research, researchers often talk about ‘integrating’ data and information across domains. Pragmatically, though, the activities that comprise cross-domain integration are often overlooked and not documented as ‘methods’ for evaluation and critique. Thus she presents how we might treat cross-domain integration as a data practice, and invites attendees to engage with an in-progress question guide with the goal of documenting the activities associated with this practice.
Syed Ashfaq Hussain: He is a research associate and PhD candidate at the chair of Architectural Informatics at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. His research interests include research data management, social, and entrepreneurial aspects of digitisation and modern IT systems. In his talk titled “Sustainable research data management planning”, he presents a systematic approach and topics of research data management from a strategy and policy-making perspective on the example of a large collaborative research center. He also discusses the foundation for dynamic data management plans in collaborative virtual research environment.
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Context document activity
- Research talks (3) and discussion
- Other research and lightning talks