Kim Fortun: experiences that shape my investment in research data sharing

From my narrative bio: "A recurrent focus of my  research has been on ways knowledge infrastructure subtends both environmental vulnerability and capacity to recognize and address such vulnerability. I have thus become increasingly invested in understanding and helping build knowledge infrastructure (including innovative educational programs at all levels, supporting technical infrastructure, public data resources, analytic and visualization capabilities, and the organizational forms needed to support and connect these). Knowledge infrastructures powerfully shape how societies anticipate, characterize, and deal with collective problems. Given the tangles of problems contemporary societies face -- and need to work on together -- building deeply interdisciplinary knowledge capacity with global scope is a high priority. This will be far from straightforward, depending on inventive project designs linking researchers across disciplines, generations, and geographies; linking research to education at all levels; and building new connections between universities, schools, governments, international organizations, businesses and other social actors. These have become key aims of my work, interlacing my research, teaching and organizational interests." Supporting the above, for many years, I was involved in the work of the Research Data Alliance, through the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group.