Attend this workshop if you're beginning to draft a qualitative research interview guide, are ready to revise your first draft, or are poised to begin interviewing your participants. Together, we will explore the role of your purpose statement, central research question, review of the relevant literature, and theory questions to the development and operationalization of your interview questions. We will examine different types of questions and the kinds of responses they tend to elicit, as well as problematic question framing. Best practices for the interview conversation will also be...
Neglecting to develop and implement a file naming convention. Data hot mess. Failing to sync and back up your data. Deadly data loss. Saving your data to a proprietary file format. Walking dead data. Facing the shame of having your publication retracted. The horror. The horror.
Data management is not easy, as is evidenced by these true horror stories of data quality gone wrong. Learn from (and wince at) these...
In this workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include OpenRefine, Google Sheets, and R with RStudio. Attendees should plan on some prework, including installations and brief background readings.
This workshop is in person, 9 am-12 pm on Friday, Oct. 20, and Friday, Oct. 27.
Developing and tweaking methods is a laborious but often unrewarded effort. With protocols.io, you can easily publish your protocols, making them citable and discoverable, getting the credit that you deserve.
Join this 60-minute webinar to learn how to:
Make your protocols public
Maximize the discoverability of your protocols
Improve the reliability and impact of your research papers with protocols.io
Turn your protocols into peer-reviewed papers
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Getting and using your free ORCID iD and ORCID record can help you save time and get credit for your work in funding, publishing, and research reporting workflows. Funding organizations, publishers, and research institutions are increasingly requiring or asking for ORCID iDs from researchers, so this workshop will help you make sure you are ahead of the game.
You can now connect your ORCID to Harvard! A connected iD means internal scholarly and administrative systems can pull in your public ORCID data,...
Join us for this informal virtual conversation about Harvard Library's strategy for sponsoring open-access scholarship and initiatives. What are OA sponsorships and what factors are there to consider? What is the decision-making process? How does Harvard Library ensure discovery of these resources? Hear from your colleagues in the Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division; E-Resources; and Open Scholarship and Research Data Services -- and join in the discussion!