News – Community Engagement

Master Data Cleaning with OpenRefine: A Workshop for PhD Students

Are you a PhD student starting your research journey with messy data? Join our beginner-friendly OpenRefine workshop and discover the power of this essential data cleaning tool!

What You’ll Learn:

✨ Simplify Data Transformation: Transform, clean, and analyze your data seamlessly.

🛠️ Hands-On Training: Guided exercises to help you navigate and master OpenRefine’s features.

📊 Real-World Application: Tackle messy datasets with practical techniques directly applicable to your research.

Details:

📅 Date: 14. June 2024

🕙 Time: 10 – 12 am CET

🏢 Location: Zoom

📝 Register now: HERE

Enhance Your Research Skills with SSH Open Marketplace: An Online Workshop for PhD Students

🌐 Overview:
Are you a PhD student in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) looking to elevate your research skills? Join us for an interactive online workshop designed to help you leverage the SSH Open Marketplace—a comprehensive discovery portal that connects you with the best resources for every stage of your research data life cycle.

Workshop Highlights:

✨ Discovering the SSH Open Marketplace:

Learn how to navigate the platform to uncover essential resources for SSH research.
Explore a curated collection of over 6,000 items sourced from 15+ trusted providers, research communities, and individual researchers.

🤔 Understanding the Research Data Life Cycle:

Gain insights into research practices and solutions for each step of the research data life cycle.
Discover tools and methodologies that promote sharing and re-use of workflows.

🗯 Community Collaboration and Curation:

Understand the importance of community involvement in cataloguing and contextualizing resources.
Learn about the roles of stakeholders, including funders, providers, moderators, and contributors, in maintaining a meaningful and relevant platform.

💾 Ensuring Data Quality:

Explore the curation routines performed by the Editorial Board, blending automatic and manual tasks, to maintain and improve metadata quality.
Understand the mechanisms in place for continuous updates and improvements based on community feedback.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is tailored for PhD students in the Social Sciences and Humanities who are eager to expand their research skills and utilize innovative tools and resources available through the SSH Open Marketplace.

Details:

📅 Date: 7. June 2024

🕙 Time: 10 – 12 am CET

🏢 Location: Zoom

📝 Register now: HERE

Empowering Future Scholars: Supporting PhD students’ training needs

Community Engagement WG is happy to announce that our proposal for the fourth Working Groups (WG) Funding Scheme Call for the years 2023-2025 was selected for funding. 🏆 We are thrilled to start our project on supporting PhD students’ training needs. 🥳

In the previous funding cycle, the WG Community Engagement undertook a comprehensive survey to investigate the training needs of PhD students (link to the report). With this coming project, the findings of this study will be put into practice to develop and deliver training materials, showcase best practices and enrich existing catalogues of tools and workflows.

The Community Engagement Working Group is going to host one in-person and three online workshops to help PhD students from different humanities disciplines without much prior experience get started with DH methods.

The developed education and training materials will increase intercommunity collaboration and provide a valuable resource for emerging scholars. We hope that through the integration of the developed material and workflows with the SSH marketplace, the project will be a good addition to existing tools and services.