This menu represents only a selection of specialized skills workshops that are available. To schedule a workshop or explore additional options, contact your subject specialist!
- Digital Scholarship & Digital Design
- Rare Books & Special Collections
- Research Data Management
- Research Sharing & Rights
Digital Scholarship & Digital Design
Bring your ideas to life through innovative, accessible, and sustainable digital scholarship. Tisch Library helps Tufts faculty, staff, and students create, share, and sustain digital research projects, creative media, and open scholarship initiatives.
Creative Assessment for Media and Design
Rare Books & Special Collections
Engage with unique primary source materials that illuminate book cultures from the medieval world to the present. Collections in the Tisch, SMFA, and Lilly Music libraries include rare books, manuscripts, archives, artists' books, and historical music materials that support teaching, learning, and original research across disciplines.
Tisch Special Collections classes
SMFA Special Collections classes
Research Data Management
File Management Basics (20-30 mins)
Students will learn best practices for managing digital files, including file naming, folder organization, and safe storage and backup methods.
Understanding Metadata (45 mins)
Students will analyze a README file or codebook from a real dataset in their discipline, identify key metadata components, and practice populating a README file or codebook. This lesson acts as an introduction to real-life metadata for students utilizing existing data for research, and/or for students collecting or creating datasets.
Data Sharing & FAIR Data (30-60 mins)
Openly sharing data increases research impact and is becoming a requirement of many major research funders. In this lesson, students will learn best practices for sharing data, with a focus on making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reproducible) and on finding appropriate, discipline-specific repositories to share original datasets in.
Responsible Data Stewardship (30-60 mins)
In this lesson, students will learn the basics of file management, safe data practices, and effective documentation for collaborative projects, with an emphasis on our collective responsibility to protect and safeguard institutional data. Students will understand the foundations of collaborative data management practices and articulate their role as data and information stewards on campus. Depending on discipline, this lesson can be modified to include a discussion of human subject data stewardship, FERPA or HIPAA information policies, or the CARE principles for Indigenous Data Governance.
Open Data Ecosystems (60 mins)
Students will discover the foundations of open data in their discipline. Students will explore a range of questions around open data, including: Why is open data important, and what does the open data landscape look like in my field? What are the challenges of creating and sustaining an open data ecosystem? How can I utilize open data?
Data De-Identification and Re-Identification (60 mins)
Students will learn about data privacy and de-identification by working to re-identify data in a (fake) dataset. This lesson can be adapted to center human subjects research concepts (confidentiality, de-identification methods like redaction, bucketing, pseudonymity), or to center personal privacy issues (real world examples of re-identification, data brokerage).
Research Sharing & Rights
Copyright for coursework, research, or professional practice (45-60 mins)
Students will develop an understanding of what it means to have ownership of a work; their own rights as creators; and how to use material created by others (text, images, audio/visual material, etc.) in their scholarly and creative projects, whether for coursework, research, or professional practice. May include discussion of sources of copyright-free or openly licensed material that can be incorporated into projects.
Publishing and sharing scholarship (60 mins)
This session introduces considerations in publishing or sharing scholarship and how to make informed decisions about when, where, and how to share scholarly work. Students will understand rights considerations for work that will be shared publicly; how to identify a journal, repository, or other platform to share their work in; and how to read license terms. Can be tailored to a specific context (e.g. publishing as an undergraduate; sharing a specific course project; publishing for dissertation writers, etc.).
Copyright & publishing for thesis, dissertation, or capstone writers (60 mins)
A session for students writing theses, dissertations, or capstones. Students will understand their rights as creators of these research projects; how they can incorporate material created by others into their work; and the process of depositing their work to the Tufts Digital Library (Senior Honors theses; capstones) or ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (master’s theses; dissertations).