This lecture, Francesca Dagostin (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy) gave an overview of how to extract relevant information from published literature, with a special focus on metadata related to covariates affecting disease emergence. Since data retrieved from literature are often complex and tricky to explore, the practical session showed the participants how to organize them into relational tables in order to build customizable and ready-to-share dashboards, which allow to efficiently visualize and summarize the information collected.