Merge pull request #51 from datacarpentry/misc-edits-50

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 git_repo: https://github.com/datacarpentry/new-website
 
-carpentries_workshops_page: https://carp-new-website.netlify.app/workshops/
+carpentries_workshops_page: https://carp-new-website.netlify.app/workshops/
+carpentries_website: https://carp-new-website.netlify.app/
+carpentries_handbook: https://docs.carpentries.org 

content/about-us/_index.md

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 title: About us
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+- newsletter
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 Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Our mission is to provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research. The target audience of Data Carpentry is researchers who want to start working with large volumes of data in their projects.
 
 The volume and complexity of data has grown rapidly in every research domain in recent years, and skills for organising, handling, and analysing data have become essential. Data allows us to ask questions that previously could not have been answered, and it changes the impact that science has on society. Although petabytes of data are now available, most scientific disciplines are failing to translate this sea of data into scientific advances. The missing step between data collection and research progress is a lack of training for researchers in crucial skills for effectively managing and analysing large amounts of data.
 
-Data Carpentry has been addressing this gap since 2014 by teaching researchers the fundamental data skills they need to conduct their work. We teach hands-on workshops in data organisation, management, and analysis to increase data literacy and improve research efficiency. Most of our workshops are aimed at learners with little or no previous experience with computational research methods. We create a friendly environment for learning, to empower researchers and enable data driven discovery. 
+Data Carpentry has been addressing this gap [since 2014]({{< param carpentries_website >}}/about-us/#our-history) by teaching researchers the fundamental data skills they need to conduct their work. We teach hands-on workshops in data organisation, management, and analysis to increase data literacy and improve research efficiency. Most of our workshops are aimed at learners with little or no previous experience with computational research methods. We create a friendly environment for learning, to empower researchers and enable data driven discovery. 
 
 Our domain-specific approach allows us to tailor the data, content, and tools to reflect the specific data and analysis needs of different areas. Domain specificity also allows us to build new skills on knowledge frameworks familiar to learners, and to motivate workshops using real scientific questions and data relevant to the learners' field of study. This approach allows learners to see immediate value in the skills they are learning and to put new techniques immediately into practice.
 

content/about-us/governance.md

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 title: Data Carpentry Governance
+hideToc: true
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 The Data Carpentry Governance Committee provides community leadership for the lesson program, with responsibility to oversee project strategy, advocate for Data Carpentry and its community, and to communicate with the governance of The Carpentries, the Core Team, and the Carpentries community as a whole.

content/lessons/_index.md

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 title: Data Carpentry Lessons 
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 We facilitate and develop lessons for Data Carpentry workshops. These lessons are distributed under the CC-BY license and are free for re-use or adaptation, with attribution. We’ve had people use the lessons in courses, to build new lessons, or use them for self-guided learning.
 
-Data Carpentry workshops are domain-specific, so that we are teaching researchers the skills most relevant to their domain and using examples from their type of work. Therefore we have several types of workshops and curriculum is organized by domain.
+Data Carpentry workshops are domain-specific, so that we are teaching researchers the skills most relevant to their domain and using examples from their type of work. Therefore we have several types of workshops and curriculum is organised by domain.
 
-[Curriculum Advisors](/about-us/curriculum-advisors/) are part of a team that provides the oversight, vision, and leadership for a particular set of lessons. More information about the role of the Curriculum Advisory Committee can be found in the Carpentries Handbook.
+[Curriculum Advisors](/about-us/curriculum-advisors/) are part of a team that provides the oversight, vision, and leadership for a particular set of lessons. More information about the role of the Curriculum Advisory Committee can be found in the [Carpentries Handbook]({{< param carpentries_handbook >}}).
 
 ## Astronomy
 
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 ## Genomics
 
-The focus of this workshop is on working with genomics data, and data management and analysis for genomics research, including best practices for organization of bioinformatics projects and data, use of command line utilities, use of command line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, and connecting to and using cloud computing.
+The focus of this workshop is on working with genomics data, and data management and analysis for genomics research, including best practices for organisation of bioinformatics projects and data, use of command line utilities, use of command line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, and connecting to and using cloud computing.
 
 More information about hosting and teaching a Genomics workshop can be found on our [FAQ page](https://datacarpentry.org/genomics-workshop/faq).