Workshop Planning

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 50 min

Objectives

• Use the workshop structure template to plan your workshop content

Workshop structure

We suggest a three-part structure to your workshop which begins with some discussion and education, gives participants a toy example to work through, and then reserves a large block of time for them to apply what they’ve learned to their own workflows. We’re trying to work with people to tweak rather than overhaul how they currently do things.

At each stage, keep in mind both the immediate goal (e.g. participants should understand how to write a data dictionary) and the ultimate goal (participants should default to sharing their data where possible).

To help plan out the workshop structure, you can use our workshop structure template.

Plan your workshop 20 min

Working alone or in a small group (especially if your research fields have similar data sharing practices), sketch an outline of your workshop and the content you think your colleagues will need to know to implement data sharing into their own work.

• How much do they know about data sharing?
• What concerns might they have?
• When do they need to start thinking about data sharing?
• What resources (e.g. library services) exist to help them?
• How do you format and clean data for sharing?
• What kind of data do you store?
• Where do you store data?
• Does the service have a tutorial or allow you to upload dummy data?
• How will you help people integrate sharing into the existing workflow?

Might some of the activities we encountered this morning help with any of these?

Key Points

• No homework for busy people

• We’re aiming for practical results!