Best practices

DMP Assistant: bilingual tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs)

By mingluwang

October 26, 2015

DMP Assistant is a bilingual tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs). The tool follows best practices in data stewardship and walks researchers step-by-step through key questions about data management. DMP Assistant was adapted from the (UK) Digital Curation Centre’s DMPOnline tool and is hosted at the University of Alberta. The French user interface was produced with support from the Université de Montréal Library. It is freely available to all researchers in Canada and provides specialized guidance to help researchers utilize the tool to develop their plan.

DataQ: A collaborative platform for answering research data questions in academic libraries

By mingluwang

October 26, 2015

DataQ is a collaborative platform for the community to use to ask and answer questions related to research data support in academic libraries. Library staff from any institution may submit questions on research data topics to the DataQ website, where questions are reviewed by an Editorial Team of experts with additional support from an active pool of Project Volunteers. Answers to these questions, from both the community and the Editorial Team, are posted to the DataQ website and include links to resources and tools, best practices, and practical approaches to working with researchers to address specific research data issues.

University of British Columbia Library: Research Data Management (RDM) Website

By mingluwang

December 19, 2014

University of British Columbia Library release their Research Data Management (RDM) website at http://researchdata.library.ubc.ca/. The website is designed to be service-oriented. Four sections, Learn; Plan; Share and Find guide users to the RDM advice and systems solutions that meet their current needs. The Learn section includes a DataGuide (CC BY 3.0) - a quick standalone guide developed to get people started on Research Data Management, which could be re-used and adapted.

Research Data Management Training online course

By robin

October 26, 2011

The Research Data Management Training, or MANTRA project has produced an open, online training course for PhD and early career researchers to learn best practices in data management. In addition to the interactive, online module which covers data management topics such as Organising Your Data, there are downloadable software modules covering data handling skills in SPSS, R, NVivo and ArcGIS. The resource was created by EDINA and Data Library, University of Edinburgh, and was funded by the JISC Managing Research Data programme.

Irish Qualitative Data Archive: Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data

By k.mcneill

May 11, 2011

The Irish Qualitative Data Archive: Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data (PDF) handbook is intended to introduce the researcher and data curator to the issues they need to consider when developing an archiving strategy appropriate to their qualitative data set. The guidelines apply principally to textual data that have been generated in qualitative research projects.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Research Cyberinfrastructure: Data Management Planning

By joel.herndon

May 4, 2011

UCSD Research Cyberinfrastructure: Data Management Planning contains resources, examples, and links to guides on writing a data management plan. Strong National Science Foundation (NSF) focus.

UK Data Archive: Managing and Sharing Data: Best Practice for Researchers

By veerle

April 30, 2011

The UK Data Archive’s guide Managing and Sharing Data: Best Practice for Researchers (PDF) provides guidance to support researchers in producing high quality research data that can be shared and re-used beyond the primary research. The guidance covers: Why and how to share research data Data management planning and costing Documenting data Formatting data Storing data and data security Ethics and consent for data sharing and re-use Data copyright Data management strategies for large investments

UK Data Archive: Create and Manage Data

By veerle

April 30, 2011

UK Data Archive: Create and Manage Data provides best practice guidance for researchers on creating and managing data. Guidance covers data management and sharing planning, consent and ethics in data sharing, data ownership and copyright, documenting data, formatting data, storing data, data security and data management strategies for large-scale research investments.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries: Data Management and Publishing

By veerle

April 30, 2011

The MIT Libraries Data Management and Publishing guide is aimed to provide academic researchers with practical tips for research data management. Includes guidance on a range of topics, covering both managing data during a project and sharing/archiving data upon completion. Includes page on developing data management plans.

Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2)

By k.mcneill

April 25, 2011

The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) maintains projects and research for facilitating data curation. Includes an extensive list of data repositories that is searchable and browsable.

DMP Assistant: bilingual tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs)

DataQ: A collaborative platform for answering research data questions in academic libraries

University of British Columbia Library: Research Data Management (RDM) Website

Research Data Management Training online course

Irish Qualitative Data Archive: Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Research Cyberinfrastructure: Data Management Planning

UK Data Archive: Managing and Sharing Data: Best Practice for Researchers

UK Data Archive: Create and Manage Data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries: Data Management and Publishing

Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2)

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