In this workshop we will dive into these reasons and the pros and cons of sharing fieldwork data, and how to share them. Through case studies from various disciplines within the social sciences and humanities and input from trainers and participants we aim to establish best practices.

OpenRefine is a free desktop application that has been described as 'a power tool for working with messy data'.  OpenRefine is most useful for cleaning and standardising data in a simple tabular format such as a spreadsheet. Therefore, it can be especially useful to researchers in the social sciences and humanities, who are increasingly sharing their research materials and are concerned about others making sense of them.