International Data Workshop

Want to gain an in-depth knowledge of useful, reliable data resources?

We offer intensive boot camps for subject librarians, area specialists, and other information professionals interested in advancing their skills and understanding of data services, tools, and resources.

These workshops cover such topics as:

• Discovering and acquiring data for your library’s collection
• Working with international governmental organization databases
• Working with geospatial data in order to better support researchers’ GIS needs
• Accessing historical maps
• Considering issues working with culturally sensitive data and other issues in data ethics 
• Using data visualization tools
• Supporting research data management services
• Learning about ICPSR data collection, and archiving social science data for institutional repositories 
• And more

International Data Workshop 2023: Africa

The most recent workshop was on May 15 and 16, 2023 with sessions designed for people in academic libraries who:

• Specialize in African studies,
• Want to support researchers doing work on Africa, or
• Want to learn more about finding and working with data from the region. 

We covered finding government and health data, visualization of data, maps and mapping tools, digital scholarship projects, and research data management.