Linkage.Works
Data linkage is how researchers and analysts connect records across disparate datasets to generate evidence, track populations, and inform policy.
It is a discipline practiced across public health, education research, population science, and social services.
Practitioners across sectors are solving the same core problems, drawing on methodologies that belong to the same intellectual tradition, but often in isolation, often without the means for collaboration. A tradition without an institutional foundation.
Linkage.Works is that infrastructure.
It serves as the primary institutional nexus for data linkage practitioners across government agencies, research institutions, universities, and nonprofits.
This platform provides:
Project development and financing pathways for high-impact linkage work
Registry of linkage projects mapped to public policy domains
Methods, tools, governance frameworks, and privacy protocols
Methodological best practices
Professional development
Practitioner network
Technical resource library
Built on the principles that matter most in linked data practice:
Openness
Rigor
Standards
Accountability to human outcomes
Mapping the Field
We are currently mapping the data linkage field.
If you are working on a linkage project, we want to hear about the work, the challenges, and the resource gaps.
Your input will shape this platform and inform a project development and funding initiative we are building in parallel to support consequential linkage work.
A Keycept Initiative
Linkage.Works is a concept-stage initiative under active development by Keycept.
If you are a data linkage practitioner, or are interested in building, shaping, or collaborating on this platform, or developing linkage work, write to:
connect@keycept.com