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Pathways to Research Data Management series

Pathways to Research Data Management is a series of workshops developed by the University of Victoria Libraries to support students and faculty in developing new skills and knowledge to support the management of their research data

Workshop description

Similar to Google Drive, Github is a service that lets you store, share, and download information on/from the web in repositories or “repos.” Although specially designed for code and documentation, it can also store many types or formats (e.g. images, PDFs, spreadsheets, 3D models).

Participants will be able to do the following by the end of this 90-minute orientation:

  • Be aware of a range of use cases for GitHub. What is version control and why should I use it?
  • Install and setup GitHub and Atom text editor
  • Create a local git repository
  • Commit & track changes locally
  • Explore change history & ignore files
  • Collaborate with colleagues on the GitHub website
  • Branch a repository & submit pull requests.
  • Know how to resolve conflicts with your changes
  • Using Git in RStudio
  • Version control for binary files (docx, jpg, etc)
  • Be able to manage the contents of an existing folder on your laptop in GitHub
  • Learn to use an open-source repository for searching academic articles

Workshop materials can be found on our Open Science Framework page, closer to the workshop date.

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