International Love Data Week is a celebration of data, taking place every February during the week of Valentine’s Day, during which universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations, and individuals host and participate in data-related events and activities.
Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of research data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. We share practical tips, resources, and stories to help researchers at any stage in their career use good data practices. Research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us.
Harvard Library participates each year by hosting workshops, sharing tips and resources, and spreading awareness of the importance of research data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research data, please join us!
Access presentations and materials from previous years on Open Science Framework.
Love Data Week 2026: February 9–13, 2026
This year’s Love Data Week theme is “Where’s the Data?” – a way to get people thinking about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation.
Stay tuned for Harvard libraries-hosted Love Data Week events!
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