Recently Anton Angelo helped deliver an international on-line Library Carpentry course over two weeks. Library Carpentry is aligned with Software and Data Carpentry, organisations dedicated to raising digital literacy and skills for beginning researchers. Anton taught basic data handling and Open Refine, a sophisticated tool for managing messy data.

The course was organised out of Malaysia, but had participants from Yale University’s Beijing campus, Pakistan and Israel, as well as Malaysia and Singapore. Anton’s aim was to consolidate on the in-person teaching he did at Nanyang Technological University (the highest ranked university outside of Europe, the UK and the US) and encourage more local instructors to take part. That course was the first of its kind in Asia. Since then a number of instructors have qualified to be Carpentry leaders, and the most recent course was successful in raising their confidence to a point that they can independently run the courses themselves.

Anton has also been training New Zealand GLAM professionals in Carpentry skills, most recently in Wellington for an in-person session organised by the Wikidata community, and attended by people from Te Papa, the National Library, Auckland Museum and Victoria University of Wellington.