Library Carpentry (LC) Workshop

Library Carpentry is made by librarians, for librarians to help you:

* automate repetitive, boring, error-prone tasks
* create, maintain and analyse sustainable and reusable data
* work effectively with IT and systems colleagues
* better understand the use of software in research

Library Carpentry introduces you to the fundamentals of computing and provides you with a platform for further self-directed learning.

https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/4205958

​## Topics

* Data basics

* Regular expressions and pattern matching

* Files, directories, looping, and pipes/filters in Bash Shell

* Data cleaning in OpenRefine

* Version control and collaboration with Git/GitHub

## Instructors

Christopher Erdmann is an author, developer, and experimenter in the areas of digital libraries, social networking, library UX, interactive technologies, bibliometrics, and data services in libraries. He is currently the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director at The Carpentries and the California Digital Library. Chris will be working with the Library Carpentry community and The Carpentries to start mapping out the infrastructure for growing the community, formalizing lesson development processes, expanding its pool of instructors, and inspiring more instructor trainers to meet the demand for Library Carpentry workshops around the globe and thus reach new regions and communities. He has previously worked for organizations such as North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Chris holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.

Juliane Schneider In a 20-year career specializing in metadata, ontologies and discovery, Juliane Schneider has worked in start-ups, on Wall Street in an insurance library, at NYU medical center, for EBSCO publishing, and at UC San Diego in the Research Data Curation Program. Her longest stint at any job was the six years she spent at Countway Library as the Metadata Librarian, and now she has returned to Harvard as the Lead Data Curator for Harvard Catalyst.

John Chodacki is Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at California Digital Library (CDL). As Director of UC3, John works across the UC campuses and the broader community to ensure that CDL’s digital curation services meet the emerging needs of the scholarly community, including digital preservation, data management, and reuse.  In addition, John represents CDL in the global research community (funders, libraries, archives, publishers, researchers) and defines and prioritizes new and improved services for UC3.  Prior to CDL, John worked at Public Library of Science (PLOS) where, as Product Director, he was responsible for product strategy and led key organization-wide initiatives in taxonomy development,  data policy, and article-level metrics.