First Meeting of the 2017-2018 Metadata Working Group

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.