Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research 
 
RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT AND OPEN DATA 
 
6-7 October 2015 
University of Manchester, UK 
 
 
SUPPORT SERVICES AND 
TOOLS 
Veerle Van den Eynden, UK Data Service 
Our data management guidance 
• Online best practice guidance: ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data.aspx 
• Managing and Sharing Research Data – a Guide to Good Practice: (Sage 
Publications Ltd) 
• Helpdesk for queries: ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/get-in-touch.aspx 
• Training: www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/advice-
training/events  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Our guidance 
• plan to share research data 
• legal and ethical aspects of data 
sharing and reuse 
• data copyright 
• documentation and metadata to 
understand and use data 
• file formats, organising, versioning 
and quality control 
• storage, backup, encryption and 
security of data and files 
• strategies for collaborative research 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Other resources 
• Research Data Management Training MANTRA (Edinburgh) – online 
learning units, also e.g. RDM guidance for N-Vivo 
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ 
• NASA Distributed Active Archive Centre: 
http://daac.ornl.gov/PI/pi_info.shtml  
• Digital Curation Centre: 
• Data management planning 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans 
• Data management training / courses 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/data-management-courses-and-
training 
 
• Model consent form: http://www.data-
archive.ac.uk/media/112638/ukdamodelconsent.pdf 
• Survey consent statement: http://data-
archive.ac.uk/media/147338/ukdasurveyconsent.doc  
• Transcription template: http://data-
archive.ac.uk/media/136055/ukdamodeltranscript.pdf 
• Transcription instructions: http://data-archive.ac.uk/media/285633/ukda-
example-transcription-instructions.pdf 
• Transcription confidentiality agreement: http://data-
archive.ac.uk/media/285636/ukda-transcriber-confidentiality-
agreement.pdf  
• Data list template: http://data-
archive.ac.uk/media/2989/UK%20Data%20Archive%20Example%20Data%20L
ist.pdf  
• RDM costing tool: www.data-archive.ac.uk/media/247429/costingtool.pdf 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Tools & templates