Recent Talks and Interviews

Talks

• Invited keynote: “Championing Public Data: Data Professionals in Civic Life” for the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Conference. Virtual. June 2, 2026.
• Invited panel: “Future Directions for Digital Scholarship” for the Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities symposium at Brown University. Providence, RI. May 1, 2026.
• Invited keynote: “Public Data Stewardship in Challenging Times” for the Research Libraries UK Conference. Virtual. March 26, 2026.
• Invited keynote: “Our Data, Our Right: Community, Data, and Democracy” with Mikala Narlock for the International Digital Curation Conference 2026. Zagreb, Croatia. February 18, 2026.
• Invited panel: The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action. Webinar with Data Index and friends. January 29, 2026.
• Invited keynote: Saving What Counts: Lessons from Data Rescues for Today’s Data Librarians. Southeast Data Librarian Symposium 2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17329549. October 8, 2025.
• Invited keynote: Rescuing and Preserving Public Data. Penn State Open Scholarship Bootcamp 2025, State College, PA, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16884194. August 15, 2025.
• Invited keynote: “KEEP CALM AND FLOAT ON: Data Rescue and You” for the Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference (ACH2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15649310. June 12, 2025.

Interviews

• Casy Calver. “Podcast: Behind the Masthead” special series: a conversation with Lynda Kellam, PhD.”. Behind the Evidence. February 3, 2026.
• Sam Cole. “Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks.”.” 404 Media. November 10, 2025.
• TaRhonda Thomas. “Fears for Independence Mall as Trump orders removal of displays that ‘disparage’ American history.” 6 Action News Philadelphia. September 16, 2025.
• Hans Buetow. Rescuing Public Datasets the U.S. Gov’t Deletes. NeverPost Podcast. July 30, 2025.
• The Knowledge Commons Podcast: Lynda Kellam. July 25, 2025.
• THE podcast: university libraries – and librarians – that are leading the change. Times Higher Education. July 10, 2025.
• Lauren Collister. With Government Data at Risk, These Volunteers are Taking Action. Katina Magazine. May 6, 2025.
• Lisa Peet. Coordinating Data Rescue Efforts. Library Journal. April 2, 2025.