Research Data Management and Sharing

Shaun Bevan, Lecturer in Qualitative Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, on the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP).

Natalia Calanzani, Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, on managing data in primary care.

Using encryption to protect your data.

Ensuring your research data are kept safe from corruption, and that access is suitably controlled.

Effective backup strategies for your research data.

Issues in storing, securing and backing up your research data.

Use of data citation to identify and acknowledge work, and allow impact and use to be tracked.

The importance of systematically documenting your research data. 

Transforming your data either during your project or afterwards, for example for anonymisation.

Understanding file formats in research data.

How to distinguish consistently between file versions, to ensure a clear audit trail.

Three main criteria to consider when naming and labelling your research data files.

Data organisation, housekeeping and good file management practices.

Delegates of the Research Waste / EQUATOR Conference, University of Edinburgh, 29 September 2015, discuss data management and data sharing. 

Delegates of the Research Waste / EQUATOR Conference, University of Edinburgh, 29 September 2015, discuss data management and data sharing.