Possible Future Topics

Topics under consideration for future workshops, reading groups, and practical sessions.

Tools & Workflows

• Basic introductions to LaTeX, GitHub, Python, R, AI assistance, and annotation tools
• R Markdown / Quarto for documents, presentations, reveal.js, and pandoc
• Collaborative writing, version control, and workflow / pipeline design
• Open-source alternatives to closed-source software, applications, and online services

Data, Annotation & Research Practice

• Research data management
• Data archives, data sharing, and NFDI
• Introduction to multimedia annotation tools such as ELAN, Praat, and Inception
• Backups, data protection, privacy, encryption, and scheduled backups
• Quality assessment and metadata validation

Statistics & Data Analysis

• Basic introductions to statistics such as significance testing and regression modeling
• GAMs
• Statistics best practices
• Data analysis sessions using participants' own data

Open Research & Publishing

• Open science, open access, open source, and open data
• Dissemination, preprints, repositories, FAIR practices, metadata, and licenses

AI & Current Methods

• AI in linguistics and scientific workflows, including best practices for using generative AI assistants
• Open science practices in LLMs and current AI technology

Alternative Formats

• Reading group sessions
• Presentations of work in progress