Are you coming to ALA Annual? Are you looking for some practical data skills? Do you have coworkers going who could use some hands on time with data to improve their skills?
Do you have a non-sensitive data set around your library that you keep saying that you'd like to DO something with?
Join Sarah Sheehan, Nathan Putnam and Abigail Goben (me!) on Friday, June 27 in Las Vegas for:
“Managing Data: Tools for Plans and Data Scrubbing”
As data continues to come to the fore, new tools are becoming available for librarians to assist faculty and use with their own data. This preconference will focus on the DMPTool and OpenRefine. The DMPTool will be presented to demonstrate customization features, review data management plans, best and worst practices and writing a data plan for a data set a library may collect. OpenRefine will be demonstrated with sample data to show potential use with library data sets and more of the data lifecycle process. We'll also cover applying applicable metadata.
Along with exploring the specific tools, this preconference will be about getting your hands dirty with an actual library data set. While we'll have a sample data set, attendees are encouraged to look around their library for non-sensitive data and bring it to give us even more robust examples.
I'm looking forward to a rousing discussion of the opportunities and pitfalls of sharing library data.
Please let Sarah or I know if you have any questions! We look forward to seeing you in Vegas.
