A (short) introduction to research data management
As a funded university researcher, you have a responsibility to use your funds appropriately and properly, and funding agencies are quite rightly determined to ensure that their investments return maximum benefit…
Keep readingBite-sized RDM #1 – file naming conventions
Have a look at the filenames in the above image, and consider how useful they’ll be in three years’ time, when those files are sitting in a folder called ‘For filing’…
Keep readingBite-sized RDM #2 – directory structure
Let’s be honest – we’ve all done this at some point: Doesn’t this look much better? Devising and implementing a directory structure that suits your work is very easy – you…
Keep readingBite-sized RDM #3 – data management plans
All funding bodies require applicants to describe what data will be produced in a project, and how it will be managed during the project, and how it will become/remain accessible to the scientific…
Keep readingBite-sized RDM #4 – discoverability
We expend a lot of energy, and money, to make sure that our data remains safe and secure. But how much time is wasted by double-clicking through those very high-quality hard…
Keep readingBite-sized RDM #5 – the readme file
You may have seen ‘README’ files before. And, like most people, you may have completely ignored them! It’s true that in most applications they contain information that’s not really of interest…
Keep readingThoughts on Electronic Research Notebooks as a national service for the academic community.
My interest in research documentation began in 2012, when I thought that an institutional transition from paper to digital would be painless, easy, and universally welcomed – a quick win for…
Keep readingResearch Data Management as a national service
The volume of data stored in research institutions is growing, and the rate at which it is growing is accelerating. Modern research practices and equipment are generating huge amounts of data.…
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