March 19-20, 2020
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Instructors: Lori Shapiro, Jen Hammock
Helpers: TBD
Please accept our apologies! The governors of many states (including Maryland) have declared states of emergency due to COVID-19. New university travel to those states is discouraged, and as such, regrettably we will not be holding this Library Carpentry workshop.
If you are a good self-learner, please note that all of the lessons we would have covered in the workshop are open source and available via the links in the syllabus below.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email hammockj@si.edu for more information.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct.This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| Before Starting | Pre-workshop survey |
| 09:00 | A Computational Approach |
| 10:30 | Morning break |
| 10:45 | Jargon Busting |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | The Unix Shell |
| 14:30 | Afternoon break |
| 14:45 | Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions) |
| 16:00 | Wrap-up |
| 16:30 | END |
| 09:00 | Introduction to Git |
| 10:30 | Morning break |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | OpenRefine |
| 14:30 | Afternoon break |
| 16:00 | Wrap-up |
| 16:30 | Post-workshop survey |
add, commit, ...statusclone, pull, push, ...To participate in a Library Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
Bash is a commonly-used shell that gives you the power to do simple tasks more quickly. Please find setup instructions in the lesson.
OpenRefine is a tool to clean up and organize messy data. Please find instructions to install it and the data used in the lesson in the lesson.
Git is a version control system that lets you track who made changes to what when and has options for easily updating a shared or public version of your code on https://github.com.
Follow the instructions on the lesson to install Git on your system.
You will need an account at github.com for parts of the Git lesson. Basic GitHub accounts are free. We encourage you to create a GitHub account if you don't have one already. Please consider what personal information you'd like to reveal. For example, you may want to review these instructions for keeping your email address private provided at GitHub. You will need a supported web browser.