CREATE & MANAGE DATA

TRAINING RESOURCES

DOCUMENTING YOUR DATA

OVERVIEW

A crucial part of making data user-friendly, shareable and with long-lasting usability is to ensure they can be understood and interpreted by any user. This requires clear and detailed data description, annotation and contextual information.

AREAS OF COVERAGE

  • Documenting data
  • Study-level documentation and context
  • Data-level documentation
  • Metadata
  • Context debate

RESOURCES AVAILABLE

  • PowerPoint presentation on 'Benefits of describing and contextualising research data'
  • Exercise Presenter's Guide: Context for qualitative data
  • Exercise: Context for qualitative data
  • Mothers and Daughters - interview extract
  • Mothers and Daughters - contextual information
  • Domestic Cooking - interview extract
  • Domestic Cooking - contextual information

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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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