Registration is now open for Love Data Week, February 10-14, 2025! For the fifth year in a row, the Johns Hopkins Libraries are hosting Love Data Week, an international celebration of data. Through a week-long series of online talks, panels, and workshops, we will explore the legal, ethical and technical dimensions of data ownership including the topics of AI & big data, community-centered research, and data licensing. 

This year, we are honored to be partnering with the Data Science and AI Institute and the Berman Institute of Bioethics to bring these data-centric events to attendees of all backgrounds and experience levels. Events run from February 10th through February 14th, and the theme for 2025 is Whose Data Is It, Anyway? All events are online, free, and open to the public. Please see below for information on the specific sessions. 

Please feel free to share event information with any of your colleagues and patrons who you think would be interested! 

Schedule and Registration 

To see the schedule and register for events, visit our Zoom Events page: Love Data Week 2025.

About the Event 

Roundtables and Panel discussions on topics including:
Ethics in data use for AI research
Reproductive justice and open information access on Wikipedia
Motivating research with open data 

Talks, including:
Structuring empirical humanistic questions as replicable experiments 
Honoring indigenous data sovereignty in suicide prevention research
Data stewardship and Black Digital Humanities: Researching and Building Keywords for Black Louisiana 

Webinars on topics including: 
Big data in R
Research data and software support at JHU 
Data and software licensing

About the Organizers

To contact the event organizers, please email dataservices@jhu.edu
Lubov McKone (Co-chair), Data Management Consultant, Data Services 
Bonni Wittstadt (Co-chair), Geospatial Services Librarian, Data Services 
Chen Chiu, Senior Data Management Consultant, Data Services
Megan Forbes, Program Manager, Open Source Programs Office, Sheridan Libraries 
Betsy Gunia, Data Management Consultant, Data Services
Peter Lawson, Data and Visualization Librarian, Data Services 
Emily McGinn, Digital Humanities Specialist, Sheridan Libraries
Nancy Shin, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Welch Medical Library
Stanley Singer, Data Informationist II, Welch Medical Library
Daniel Watts, GIS Specialist and Applications Administrator, Data Services