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The Nimble Tents Toolkit: Mobilizing Quickly for Disaster Relief & Other Causes Jason B. Jones I'm delighted today to be able to co-announce the launch of the Nimble Tents Toolkit, a set of templates and guides for helping universities, libraries, and digital scholarship labs mobilize quickly around specific causes. The Nimble Tents Toolkit project lead is Alex Gil (though he was far from alone!), who was a key node in bringing together several schools to work on the mapathon for Puerto Rico. Here's the description of how the Nimble Tents Toolkit got started and what it will offer: On September 19 and 20, Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the eastern Caribbean. On September 19 a major earthquake struck central Mexico. On September 22, a group of colleagues interested in helping out sat down at The Butler Library Studio at Columbia University in New York to plan an event to help emergency teams on the ground to have better maps. In 1 week, 3 other libraries and labs joined the effort. In 1 month, more than 20 libraries and labs had replicated the model. The verified, open source map for all of Puerto Rico is almost complete. Many others joined in the effort to help Mexico. How was this done? Universities and Colleges, and their Libraries and Digital Scholarship Labs in particular, have the latent capacity to gather quickly and react to the urgencies we can expect from the anthropocene and our vulnerable political landscapes: reams of good will, talent, space, colleague networks, communication and management lines, pedagogical wherewithal, computational savvy, and much more. The nimble tents toolkit provides timelines, instructions and sample materials to help your team and organization tap into that potential. At Trinity College, Christina Boyles and I organized a #prmapathon event using draft elements of the Nimble Tents Toolkit, and it was convenient to have some structure and guidelines when you're trying to pull something together with no budget, on short notice, and without the personnel of a large research university. Since we can only expect more such occasions that call for such widespread relief efforts as time goes on, bookmarking or contributing to the Nimble Tents Toolkit seems like a solid plan. Photo is a screenshot of OpenStreetMaps' view of Puerto Rico. RSS to Email Formatted

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