Upcoming Events: Research Data & Digital Scholarship

Ethically Making & Sharing Data

This session will help you assess the potential benefits and risks of collecting, analyzing, and sharing data and provide you with some practical tools to help you assess data needs and assume an ethical data practice in your next project.

• January 26, 2026
• 10:00am - 11:00am
• Hybrid: Online and at Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor

Exploring Handwritten Text Recognition for Manuscript Studies with 2025-2026 SIMS Fellows

This discussion will present the work of two 2025-2026 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Graduate Student Fellows and a 2025 Penn Libraries Data Science and Society Research Assistant exploring Handwritten Text Recognition technologies for use on a variety of historic and archival documents for future in-depth research.

• January 26, 2026
• 3:00pm - 4:00pm
• Hybrid

Selecting a Data Repository: Finding a Location to Share Your Research

This workshop will help researchers become familiar with the data repository ecosystem in order for them to choose an appropriate data repository to share their dataset in.

• January 27, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Online