Providing Data Services and Support: From Surviving to Succeeding

An ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods Topical Workshop

It’s the return of our popular Workshop for data librarians and others who support data users and researchers!

Goals:

• Develop understanding of and comfort with the core aspects of data services and support, including discoverability, use, acquisition, and analysis through practice and collaborative hands-on activities.
• Create a fundamental mental model of data service support areas and levels of support as they relate to the research lifecycle and institutional context.
• As part of a capstone project, draft a data collection development policy, complete a data resources scan, or create an instructional slide deck.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify various types, formats, and sources of data and begin to interpret metadata, codebooks, and other data-related documentation. Translate this knowledge to content appropriate for students and researchers.
• Gain practice clarifying requests for data in the context of a data reference interview, and justifying support limitations in both feasibility and scope of practice.
• Appraise and develop data collection policy statements and be able to apply a workflow to build and sustain a data collection.
• Describe how researchers, as data producers or users, clean and manipulate their data for analysis. Recognize software used for quantitative and qualitative analysis and locate appropriate troubleshooting resources.

New this year: an early payment discount on all Topical Workshops! Pay your registration fee in full by March 31 and save.