Online
July 27-30, 2020
10:00 am - 15:00 pm EDT
Instructors: Scott Peterson, Dom Bortruex, Andrea Medina-Smith, Ann Myatt James, Preethy Nair
Helpers: Carol Ido, Amanda Steadman
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Library Carpentry is made by people working in library- and information-related roles to help you:
Library Carpentry introduces you to the fundamentals of computing and provides you with a platform for further self-directed learning. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Library Carpentry: software skills training for library professionals".
Who: The course is for people working in library- and information-related roles. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: July 27-30, 2020. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements:
Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email mbecher@american.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
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 |
| 10:00 | Introductions |
| 10:30 | Jargon Busting, A Computational Approach, Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | Jargon Busting, A Computational Approach, Introduction to Working with Data (Continued) |
| 14:45 | Wrap-up |
| 15:00 | END |
| 10:00 | The Unix Shell |
| 11:00 | Morning break |
| 11:15 | The Unix Shell (Continued) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | The Unix Shell (Continued) |
| 14:45 | Wrap-up |
| 15:00 | END |
| 10:00 | Introduction to Git |
| 11:00 | Morning break |
| 11:15 | Introduction to Git (Continued) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | Introduction to Git (Continued) |
| 14:45 | Wrap-up |
| 15:00 | END |
| 10:00 | OpenRefine |
| 11:00 | Morning break |
| 11:15 | OpenRefine (Continued) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | OpenRefine (Continued) |
| 14:20 | Wrap-up |
| 14:50 | Post-workshop survey |
| 15:00 | END |
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.
Note: Participants with Windows S mode computer need to exit their computer from that mode to install the required softwares for this workshop. Please refer this support page for help on how to switch out of S mode in Windows 10.
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.