Data Management Beginners
Description
Over the course of a PhD, students will create and use large amounts of different types of data. This course is designed to help students manage their data effectively, and to make them aware of some of the legal and ethical issues involved in dealing with data.
Target audience
First year PhD students in Life Sciences
Topics covered
Creating and Managing Data
- The concept of the data lifecycle
- File structure, naming, and formats. Making use of an effective personalised system for data management will both facilitate research, and make preservation actions in the future easier to deal with
- Starting to produce a post-graduate data management plan
Working with Digital Data
- Short-term preservation of digital data, such as back-up strategies, issues of sharing and access, and version control. These are particularly relevant to collaborative work
- Coverage of issues that affect the whole research process, such as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), including copyright, and Freedom of Information (FoI). The implications to e-theses will also be covered
- Issues of sensitive data and ethics
Aims
- To understand common issues in the effective management of digital data, including defining research data and the data lifecycle
- To consider the data that you will collect and ways in which this can be managed, including drawing up suitable file-naming schemes, working with shared data
- To create a data management plan to help guide you through your PhD
Format
Presentations, discussions and some practical work
Duration
One two hour session
Events available