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Friday, September 15th, 1 PM, Olin Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room
Contacts for this meeting: Marcie Suzanne Farwell + Jasmine Burns
About: To kick off the new year of the Metadata Working Group, we have a Lightning Talks session scheduled for Friday, September 15th, at 1 PM in Kroch Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room.
Lightning talks are informal, 5-7 minutes (tops) presentations that cover a perspective, idea, project, or question in a short time period. This allows for many different people to present on a variety of topics, in a fun atmosphere - as well as to sign up as late as the day of (as preparation is minimal). We warmly welcome anyone to give a lightning talk.
For this session, we'd like to heat about the tools you are working with to clean, query, manipulate, or otherwise work with your data. This can be things like:
- Advanced Excel techniques
- Open Refine
- SQL
In your lightening talk, we'd like you to walk us through a problem you were able to solve with that particular tool. There may be many of us with similar needs that can benefit from seeing what kinds of situations these tools are used for already. If you need to bring a laptop so you can properly demonstrate the tool, let us know and we can accommodate.
To sign up to give a lightning talk, just send an email (to Jasmine or Marcie) and we'll get you set up. You can sign up as late as the day of. We will also give some time for discussion and questions/answers after the talks. This meeting will be followed by a questionnaire about the tools people are most interested in having working session and workshops during the next year. We will also being starting a coding club where people can practice the tools we are learning and ask questions in a low-pressure, no judgement atmosphere.
The session is open to everyone, and we hope to see everyone September 15th at 1 PM! All are welcome.
| Speaker | Tool | Problem |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Martinez | OpenURL Viewer | Allows e-Resources staff view OpenURL fields and data in a table. Helps in troubleshooting problems with links to online resources. |
| Peter Martinez | Kaltura bulk load tool (Excel) | Creating an XML file for batch uploading records in Kaltura. |
| Dianne and Tre | Digitization requirements and CULAR | |
| Erin Faulder | OpenRefine | Cleaning dates in EAD |
| Dianne | Scripting tools | "Match up a bazillion filenames" |
Find here a list of Metadata Working Group dates for the 2017-2018 year for planning purposes.
This year, we're keeping the approach we started last year. This means workshops, working sessions, and we hope, deliverables from the Metadata Working Group in this academic year. So many of these meetings will be used for workshops or working session style events.
We'll start the year with a lightening session of the tools people are using to work with their metadata across CUL. We will then send out a questionnaire about the tools people are most interested in learning for the coming year and plan working sessions for the tools with the most popular rankings
We are going to try to keep to the schedule of the 3rd Friday of every month, but due to the nature of the workshops dates, times, and locations may vary.
Friday, September 15th (Kroch Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room, 1:00-2:30 PM)
Friday, October 20th
Friday, December 8th, Open Refine Workshop (Mann Library B30A, 9AM-12PM)
Wednesday, January 17th, Excel Workshop (Uris B05, 9AM-12PM)
Friday, February 9th, Open Refine Workshop on Regular Expressions (Mann Library Stone Classroom, 10AM-12PM)
- Friday, March 16, Adobe Bridge (Cancelled - to be rescheduled)
- Tuesday, April 24, Excel Workshop 2: Vlookup and Pivot Tables (Mann Library Stone Classroom, 10AM-12PM )
- Friday, May 18th, Lightening Talks: How I have used the workshops this year (RMC Lecture Room, 10:00-11:30PM)
- Coding Club - every other Thursday, starting January 4th (Olin 701, 12-2PM)