The Data Management Workbook
Practical Exercises for Better Organization, Storage and Use of Your Research Data
- A practical workbook from the author of Data Management for Researchers—useful for both experienced researchers and those creating a data-management plan for the first time.
- Provides structured yet flexible exercises to help researchers across disciplines tailor data-management plans to the needs of their specific research workflows.
- Covers topics across the entire research–data lifecycle, from data organization and documentation to data sharing and project wrap-up.
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Description
If you want to manage your research data better but don’t know where to begin, this short workbook will help you get started!
The Data Management Workbook helps researchers design useful data-management plans through a step-by-step series of structured exercises, worksheets and checklists, including:
- creating a data dictionary
- evaluating a lab notebook
- finding the best way to organize your files
- setting up useful file naming conventions
- writing effective README.txt files
- selecting the right data repository
- determining data stewardship
- preparing data for future use
Suitable for researchers working in many different disciplines, this guide also shows how to customize data-management plans to better fit your individual workflows, methodologies, laboratories and datasets. Author Kristin Briney builds on the foundations in her previous book, Data Management for Researchers, to help bridge the gap between understanding the principles and being able to implement data management as part of your research practice.
DOI: 10.53061/QVLQ9093
About the Author
Kristin Briney is the Biology & Biological Engineering Librarian at the California Institute of Technology. She is the author of Data Management for Researchers and coauthor, with Becky Yoose, of Managing Data for Patron Privacy. She has a PhD in chemistry and an MLIS, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in research data management, institutional data policy, and patron privacy with respect to library data handling. Kristin is an advocate for the adoption of the international date standard ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) and likes to spend her free time making data visualizations out of yarn.Bibliographic Information
114 pages - BISAC LAN025000, COM021000, SCI043000
- BIC GPH, UN, GPS, UNC
