CREATE & MANAGE DATA

TRAINING RESOURCES

STORING YOUR DATA

OVERVIEW

Looking after research data for the longer-term and protecting them from unwanted loss requires having good strategies in place for securely storing, backing-up, transmitting, and disposing of data. Collaborative research brings challenges for the shared storage of, and access to, data

AREAS OF COVERAGE

  • Making back-ups
  • Data storage
  • Data security
  • Data transmission and encryption
  • Data disposal
  • File sharing and collaborative environments

RESOURCES AVAILABLE

  • PowerPoint presentation on 'Storing your data'
  • PowerPoint presentation on 'Security breaches'
  • Exercise 1: Data security breaches (no answers)
  • Exercise 2: Data security breaches
  • Exercise 2 Answers: Data security breaches
  • Exercise 3: Checksum and encryption
  • Quiz: Data storage and security
  • Quiz Answers: Data storage and security

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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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