Software Skills for Research Workflows
Tool-Specific Training Series
Offered by: Josh Chalifour, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Concordia Library
- Format: Consultation
- Time: 60 min
- Stage: Developing an Idea, Developing an Idea, Active Research
- Pathway: Academic Scholarship, Communications
- software
- digital workflows
- tool literacy
- data organization
Research workflows are shaped by the tools we rely on every day. Building confidence with the right software can make research more organized, efficient, and easier to share over time.
Why this
Build practical skills in the digital tools that support your particular research workflow. These consultation sessions with a librarian can help you get some hands-on experience learning or improving your skills using key research software tools — from qualitative data analysis to personal knowledge management — helping you break through the learning curve and adopt tools that make your research more organized, efficient, and shareable.
Relevance for impact
This training series supports research impact by strengthening the infrastructure of everyday research practice. By improving digital workflows, data organization, and tool literacy, it enables research outputs to be more reusable, shareable, and ready for collaboration, open dissemination, and long-term impact.
Who it’s for
Researchers at any stage who want to strengthen their digital research workflows using practical, accessible software tools.
Digital tool options
Each consultation will focus on one of the following tools
- Obsidian / AnyType — personal knowledge management, writing, note-taking
- QualCoder — qualitative data analysis for text, image, audio, and video
- Tropy — image and archival research collection management
- Zotero — reference management, research organization, and note-taking
- Additional tools can be requested
What you’ll learn / outcomes
- Understand the tool’s interface and break the initial learning curve
- Gain comfort using essential functions that immediately support research workflows
- Learn advanced possibilities that support collaboration, archiving, and impact-oriented outputs
- Discover how the tool integrates into broader research data and knowledge management practices
Format
- Consultation
- In-person or virtual
- Group size: 1 or more participants
- On-demand scheduling
What to bring
- The tool installed on your computer
- If in-person, in some cases, the Library can provide a computer with software pre-installed
Materials provided
- Slides, guides, workflow templates, and curated links for mastering each tool.
Service provider
As a Digital Scholarship Librarian with Concordia University, Joshua Chalifour identifies and assesses new possibilities that emerging technologies open for academic work. This involves collaborating in cross-disciplinary research processes, as well as engaging in teaching and learning through digital scholarship initiatives and services. Additionally, Chalifour is the subject librarian for Communication Studies and Journalism.