Love Data Week 2026: Where Is the Data?

A message from Yuan Li , University Scholarly Communication Officer and Director of Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, and Emre Keskin , Assistant Vice Provost and Managing Director for Research Data Strategy Each year, Love Data Week invites the global research community to reflect on how data are created, managed, cared for, shared, and sustained. This year’s theme “Where is the Data?” asks a deceptively simple question that sits at the heart of responsible, impactful research and is a way to get people thinking about data’s journey from collection through storage, and preservation