Many of these materials are based on the Library Carpentry materials initially developed and taught by Dr James Baker, Owen Stephens and Daniel van Strien in the UK. http://librarycarpentry.github.io/outline/. The original Library Carpentry contained four modules:
- Introduction, including jargon busting, data structures and regular expressions
- The Unix shell, including use of the command line and commands such as
grepandsedto find data within files - Git and version control
- Using OpenRefine for data clean up.
These four repositories have been re-developed within the GitHub data-lessons area, and new lessons have been added. All lessons are open to contributions, whether through pull requests or through issues raised on the repositories themselves.
Library Carpentry prides itself on reviewing and revising our lessons to ensure that they fit the needs and requirements of the communities we serve. As a result our lessons are at varying stages of maturity.
Our Core lessons - those which we are confident that anyone can teach with no problems - are:
Our Beta lessons - those which need to be taught more to iron out their content and flow - are:
Our Alpha lessons - those which are new or substantially revised and have therefore yet to be tested in a teaching environment - are:
If you plan to teach an Alpha or Beta status lesson at a Library Carpentry workshop, we recommend you contact the lesson's maintainer (listed in the lesson README.md file) before doing so.
A lot of work was done on the repositories during the recent Mozilla Global sprint. For work outstanding, please see the issues here. Contributions welcome.
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