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Love Data Week (LDW) aspires to raise awareness and build community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. Join us for Love Data Week 2022 from February 14 – 18, 2022.

University Library has compiled a list of events for LDW that are online and open to the public. See our for details.
Our local event is a Haiku contest!

Data Haiku Contest

Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.).

The contest is open to current Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà students and employees. One (1) submission per person. Submissions are due by 12:00pm (Noon) on Monday February 14, 2022. All entries will be shared on our Data Haiku page. Winners will be notified by 5:00pm on February 14, 2022. There are prizes for the Best Data Haiku and the Runner-Up!

Go to submit your Data Haiku.

Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across 3 unrhymed lines. The first line should have 5 syllables, the second line should have 7 syllables, and the third line should have 5 syllables.

Haiku Example

Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.

— Richard Wright, collected in

 

Prizes

There are prizes for the Best Data Haiku and the Runner-Up!

Judges

Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Library Professional Development and Personnel Committee (PDPC) members:

Nicollette Brant, Michelle DeMars, Khue Duong, Gabriel Gardner, Alexis Pavenick

The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Library has adopted the Data Haiku Contest from the at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.