Library Carpentry is a two-day workshop covering the following in-depth, hands-on lessons:

• Introduction to Data
• The UNIX Shell
• Tidy Data
• OpenRefine

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 15-16, 2019, from 9:30-5:00 both days, including lunch and a coffee break

Location: Lamont Library B-30

Objectives: Library Carpentry workshops teach people working in library- and information-related roles how to:

• Cut through the jargon terms and phrases of software development and data science and apply concepts from these fields in library tasks
• Identify and use best practices in data structures
• Learn how to programmatically transform and map data from one form to another
• Work effectively with researchers, IT, and systems colleagues
• Automate repetitive, error prone tasks

Who will benefit from this workshop:

• Functional specialists (including digital scholarship, digital humanities, data, and metadata librarians)
• Subject specialists in liaison librarian roles who are involved in or interested in improving their skills in working with data

Participants do not need to have a technical background, but should be excited about learning the above technologies and have a clear idea of how they will apply them to their current role. The lessons will be presented by a Library Carpentry instructor, with help from staff members in the Digital Scholarship Support Group and the Harvard Library Research Data Program.

More information on this workshop is available online.