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.”