Learning with and about biodiversity data

Slides for panel on "GDB as a collective learning device to explore climate action" at MozFest, 7th March 2022.

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1. Jonathan Gray / @jwyg / jonathangray.org
   Learning with and about
   biodiversity data
   GDB as a collective learning device to explore climate action
   
   
   MozFest, 7th March 2022
   

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2. Hello!
   
   
   I am Jonathan Gray. 👋
   
   
   I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Critical
   Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital
   Humanities, King’s College London as well as Research
   Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the
   University of Amsterdam and the médialab at Sciences
   Po, Paris. 🌱
   
   
   My work explores the role of digital data, digital methods
   and digital infrastructures in the composition of
   collective life. 🧶
   
   
   You can find out more about me at jonathangray.org /
   @jwyg. ⛩
   
   
   

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3. I am co-founder of the Public Data
   Lab, an interdisciplinary network
   exploring what difference the digital
   makes in attending to public
   problems.
   
   
   You can read more about the
   Public Data Lab’s various projects
   and collaborations at
   publicdatalab.org 🎈
   
   
   

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4. Climate action is about more than emissions
   

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7. What can we learn about biodiversity data with
   

   the Global Data Barometer?
   

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8. Global Data Barometer as a collective learning device
   

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9. “We need to historicize our data and
   its organization in order to create
   flexible databases that are as rich
   ontologically as the social and natural
   worlds they map, and that might really
   help us gain long-term purchase on
   questions of planetary management.”
   

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10. Not just datasets but also
    “data settings”
    

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11. “Embrace pluralism … Data feminism insists
    that the most complete knowledge comes
    from synthesizing multiple perspectives, with
    priority given to local, Indigenous, and
    experiential ways of knowing”
    

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12. Which kinds of species and
    ecosystems are included in
    biodiversity data?
    🍄 😭
    

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13. Red listing as a method…
    … lots of PDF red lists
    

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14. Formats for red listing…
    Red list CSVs
    
    
    (e.g. Namibia)
    Red list APIs
    
    
    (e.g. Denmark)
    Red list apps
    

    (e.g. Armenia)
    

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15. Beyond red lists…
    

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18. Data not just as representations,
    

    but in terms of relations
    

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19. Data as part of living knowledge
    

    infrastructures for attending to life
    

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20. Transnational coordination (e.g. red lists)
    

    as well as engagement with local/indigenous
    communities and knowledge cultures
    

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21. What role might data play
    

    in supporting “arts of noticing”?
    

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