20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing ELPUB 2016 FOSTER Training Day for Junior Scientists Workshop on Research Data Management 07.06.2016 225/08/16 What is Research Data? Any information you use in your research: statistics, interviews, simulations, measurement data from experiments, observational data from instruments, text with semantic annotations, 3D scans... Video, audio, images, spreadsheets, documents, binary data, software, text files... research object research data result/publication 325/08/16 What is Research Data Management? • Backup and Storage • Metadata and Documentation • Data Quality • File Names, Identifier and Versions • Ethics, Rights and Licences 425/08/16 The Setting 525/08/16 Team A Team B Data loss 625/08/16 Coordinate systems 725/08/16 Data quality 825/08/16 Context information 925/08/16 Group work 1025/08/16 Data availability 1125/08/16 ??? ? Data documentation 1225/08/16 ? 25/08/16 13Archaeology Data Service / Digital Antiquity http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/g2gp/CreateData_1-2 Rights & Licenses 1425/08/16 My Data! 25/08/16 15 Sensitive data 1625/08/16 Software compatibility 1725/08/16 ???? Sustainability 1825/08/16 ? ? Notice at bus stop Jüdenstrasse/Göttingen Why Research Data Management? Laptop stolen Contains all data for my PhD thesis, … … the only copy of my master thesis… …relevant working material for distance learning course… … and lots of personal stuff. no backup copies one year‘s value of work disappeared part of my future plans gone up in smoke 1925/08/16 Organise your files so that you and others can find and access things when you need them Why Research Data Management? …because: o you need to st op working on topic X and wo rk on topic Y fo r 2 weeks o you become s ick & your colle agues need to finish your pub lication o your superviso r wants your re sults from 4 mo nths ago, in 4 minutes o you need to e at & sleep from time to time 2025/08/16 Why Research Data Management? 2125/08/16 Why Research Data Management? 2225/08/16 • Enriched and well managed data • allows new kinds of research • provides reliable empirical data to subgroups with modelling approaches  feedback concerning project hypotheses Why Research Data Management? 2325/08/16 1. Improve your research 2. Conform to Good Scientific Practice 3. Simplify Data Sharing with Colleagues 4. Facilitate Data Publication 5. Enable new kinds of research Why Research Data Management? 2425/08/16 2525/08/16