Pathways

Welcome to the Data Collaborative’s Knowledge Management Tool — The Data Collaborative team was part of Read Charlotte, 2017-2020. The purpose of this tool is to promote and grant access to all things Data Collaborative. The site is created for three audiences in mind, with the goal to take three possible actions. These actions are listed below:

For an organization or community that hopes to create a Data Collaborative community from scratch.

1. Replicate: This site will offer our framework, resources and insights that we developed over three years. The hope is to replicate and grow the learnings of the Data Collaborative community in the context and realities of your personal situation. For this desirable action, we would suggest starting with the Holistic Model pathway.

For an organization that hopes to take pieces of the Data Collaborative to bring into its existing community, program and/or daily work.

2. Adopt/Adapt/Integrate: After hearing about the Data Collaborative, you realized you do similar work and are really interested in a specific body of work that you admire about the Data Collaborative. We would suggest starting with the Model Parts pathway to identify the cross sections of the Data Collaborative model that resonate most with you.

This is for our cherished Data Collaborative community partners who are the co-creators of the community and who wish to continue the work.

3. Continue: For this action, we suggest both the Holistic Model and Model Parts. Here is how we would suggest using the two different pathways:

Holistic Model: We suggest this for when you need a refresher on how everything is connected together throughout the community.
Model Parts: We suggest this for when you need to know how to replicate a specific part of the model — depending what you are hoping to achieve.

We know this site is not complete and that some questions will be left unanswered. The purpose of this site is to reflect on all of our work and capture what we could. It is an attempt to answer the questions and share the work we were able to achieve while continuously improving. We have had a lot of wins over the past three years. While we look to carry the bright spots into our next project, we want to be sure to expand and share what we have learned so the work can grow and spread to our community and collaborators.

Happy viewing,

-The Data Collaborative Team

Holistic Model

This pathway will ease you into the whole Data Collaborative community if you’re brand new. It starts with introducing the theory and overall purpose of the community and then progressively becomes more detailed. The conclusion of this pathway is a page dedicated to all that was learned during the project.

Model Parts

This pathway will provide cross sections of the Holistic Model that are relevant to replicate or facilitate specific, core components of the Data Collaborative project. This pathway is dedicated to someone who has previous knowledge of the Data Collaborative community and understands exactly where they would like to focus.

Holistic Model

The pathway below represents a way to enter the work that the Data Collaborative team created over the last three years. The Holistic Model will begin with the background of what the Data Collaborative is and a big picture of the work. It is represented in the site layout by the ordering of the steps reflected in the pages displayed up top.

From the big picture, we will go further into detail of how we have navigated the work. The Funnel, represented above, breaks down how the information in the site is organized. This path will bring you from the most zoomed out version of the Data Collaborative to the nuance and granular. Below, are the different steps of this process:

Model Parts

The parts below represent components of the Data Collaborative that added value to our community. We will walk through what they are and how they evolved over time. The Model Parts will provide cross sections of the site that all fall under the different themes.

This section will focus on particular value-adds that the Data Collaborative has created, including:

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Pathways

Holistic Model

Model Parts

Holistic Model

Model Parts

The Data Collaborative Initiative was underwritten by generous grants from: