Preparing for Projects with Data Workflows

Set yourself up for success by creating a data workflow, a tool that will help you identify your project needs, keep track of your sources, and serve as scaffolding to create organized files. Whether you are reusing existing data or collecting your own, in this video, Daria Orlowska, data librarian, will guide you through two structures that you can use to stay organized while you're brainstorming.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:50 Workshop goals
0:02:19 Identifying your project needs
0:02:48 Primary vs secondary data
0:06:00 Examples of primary and secondary data
0:09:07 Research workflow approach
0:13:03 REFLECTION consider your data needs
0:13:35 Breaking down your question
0:13:50 Sample research question
0:15:00 Refining your research question
0:21:30 Developing search terms
0:22:35 Database thesauri
0:24:21 REFLECTION research question
0:25:25 Secondary data matching
0:26:08 First secondary data source
0:29:04 Second secondary data source
0:31:09 Visualize goals through workflow
0:31:24 Developing your data workflow
0:33:24 Refining your data workflow
0:34:49 REFLECTION workflow steps
0:35:30 Construct research documents
0:36:09 Setup collection spreadsheet
0:38:43 Setup documentation
0:41:56 Setup other project structures
0:43:19 REFLECTION takeaways
0:43:54 Thank you

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