Symposium 2025

Setting

May 19- 23, 2025, at the University of California, Merced.

Goals

1. To assess our progress across our four activity areas in the past year,
2. To think about the broader legacy of our RCN's work, and
3. To plan broadly our goals and actions for the next year.

Agenda

May 20th:

1. Welcoming Remarks (Jessica Blois)
2. Introductions
3. The CARE Data Maturity Model (Riley Taitingfong, Andrew Martinez)
4. Roundtable on FAIR/CARE
5. Roundtable on interoperability next steps
6. Roundtable on collaborative, community-focused interdisciplinary action
7. Keynote: "A Network, Not a Hierarchy: Pluralistic Governance for Biodiversity Data" (Beckett Sterner)

May 21st:

1. Discussion with the archive and museum workers of Yosemite National Park
2. Talk from Irene Vasquez, cultural ecologist at Yosemite

May 22nd:

1. Keynote: Indigenous-led and Community-centered: How Indigenous Librarianship Fosters 'Indigenous Data Sovereignty'" (Alex Soto)
2. Working group time
3. Working group report-backs