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Three Categories Of Action
The purpose of this document is to build on the Landscape Analysis by offering a roadmap of potential actions that stakeholders can use to chart both individual and collective responses.
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Community Actions: Intro
A third category of actions for the community to consider focus on leveraging a strength in numbers approach, and targeting “big picture” actions institutions to regain and maintain control of their data infrastructure. This category includes a broad range of possible structural solutions to foster an open, competitive landscape for data and data analytics that is aligned with the interests of academic institutions and the communities they serve.
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Community Actions: Collectively Implement Strategic Practices
Broad adoption of common terms and conditions will have a market effect that favors products and services that are in the best interests of the academic community. This includes advantaging Open Source software over “black-box” algorithms and leveling the playing field for community-owned tools to compete with commercial options whenever available.
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Community Actions: Build or Acquire Academic Community-Controlled Infrastructure
The most direct path to ensure community control over data infrastructure is to build or acquire it.
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Community Actions: Establish Inclusive Governance Structures
It is vital for the governing bodies of infrastructure services to include representation from the communities they serve in order to ensure that management stays accountable to the community’s evolving needs.
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Community Actions: Leverage Policy to Support Community Control
Another avenue to expand community’s control over data infrastructure is to advocate for favorable federal and state policies.
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Community Actions: Realign Stakeholder Relationships
These community-based actions portend several possible realignments within the academic community and its stakeholder groups that should also be considered as efforts move forward.
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Update to the Roadmap for Action
Acting in conditions of high uncertainty is particularly difficult. These are actions that libraries, in particular, and academic institutions, in general, could take regardless of the current situation.
