CREATE & MANAGE DATA

TRAINING RESOURCES

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANNING

OVERVIEW

A data management and sharing plan helps researchers consider, when research is being designed and planned, how data will be managed during the research process and shared afterwards with the wider research community.

AREAS OF COVERAGE

  • Data management planning tasks and the research lifecycle
  • Data Management Checklist
  • Roles and responsibilities for data management
  • Costing data management
  • Strategies and resources for research centres and hubs

RESOURCES AVAILABLE

  • PowerPoint presentation on 'The data lifecycle and data management planning'
  • Exercise 1: Using the data management lifecycle for your research planning
  • Data lifecycle planning - real life example
  • Exercise 2: Using the Data Management Checklist for your research planning
  • Exercise 3: Using a data inventory for planning data management in Centres

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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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