Colectica: Collaborative Data Documentation, Curation, Team Approvals, and Web Discovery Platform

This workshop explores the expanded Colectica ecosystem, including the Colectica Datasets application for viewing, improving, and publishing data files, as well as new web-based tools for seamless collaborative editing and publication. Running on Windows, macOS, and Linux, Colectica supports formats like DDI, RDF, Parquet, SPSS, SAS, Stata, R, and CSV, while the web tools enable real-time team collaboration.Participants will learn to: View: Inspect, visualize, and analyze datasets to gain quick insights. Curate: Apply automated, human-in-the-loop techniques for cleaning, annotating, and documenting datasets with DDI metadata. Collaborate: Use web-based features to edit datasets together in real time and manage team approval processes. Publish: Discover methods to share, export, convert, and archive data in various formats for easy dissemination and preservation. Through hands-on activities, attendees will experience both desktop and web functionalities. This workshop is ideal for researchers, data managers, and professionals seeking to advance their data management and collaboration skills and learn about Colectica’s latest tools.