This training builds knowledge about management of research data and provides practical skills for writing data management plans.
By the end of this training, learners should:
- Know how to write a data management plan.
- Gain confidence in research data management.
- Have information about existing tools and templates.
Training Outline:
- Overview: What are research data and why should you manage them?
- Ethical and legal considerations.
- Data types.
- Data organization, documentation and metadata.
- Data storage and back-up.
- Data sharing, re-use and long-term preservation.
Resources for facilitators and learners
Videos, webinars:
- Webinar recording and slides: “How to train students and researchers on the topic, Writing a Data Management Plan”, David Ball, David Ball Consulting; Ieva Cesevičiūtė, Kaunas University of Technology, and EIFL.
- “Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts”, NYU Health Sciences Library.
- “RDM horror stories”, Library of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
- DMP & Indigenous Data, Angela Mashford-Pringle.
Library Guide:
- “Research Data Management: Data Management Plans”, University College Dublin.
Examples of presentations, templates, guides, exercises and tip sheets:
- Irena Nježić. “Data Management Plan." [download]
- “Research Data Management”, Science Europe, including the “Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management”, RDM Guidance for Organisations: Core Requirements for Data Management Plans [download] and Criteria for the Selection of Trustworthy Repositories [download]; RDM Guidance for Researchers: Template for Data Management Plans [download] and Guiding the Selection of a Trustworthy Repository [download]; RDM Guidance for Reviewers: Template for a Data Management Plan Evaluation Rubric [download]
- “Data Management template for students”, University College Dublin.
- “Data Management templates”, University of Bath.
- “DMPOnline tool to support researchers to develop and share DMP”, DCC.
- “ARGOS tool to create machine-actionable Data Management Plans”, OpenAIRE.
- “Data Stewardship Wizard”.
- Coffey, Aoife Marie. “Sample Data Management Plans for training purpose.”