DATUM for Health¶

(part of WP1_1 Research Of Available Resources)

Comprises 3 sessions:

• Introduction to research data management
• Data curation lifecycle
• Problems and practical strategies and solutions

Plus additional notes for:

• Data For Life - Digital Preservation for Health Sciences

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Session 1: Introduction To Data Management¶

• What is research data ?
• Where is your research data ?
• Why manage research data
  • a requirement
  • to work effectively & efficiently
  • to protect it
  • for use and/or re-use
  • to share it
  • for preservation
  • because it is good research practice
• How to manage research data
• The research data lifecycle
  • Plan / Create / Analyse / Preserve / Share /Use (and repeat...)
• Creating a DMP

Session 2: Data Curation Lifecycle¶

• What is data curation ?
• Why curate ?
  • Requirements
  • Rewards
• DCC Data Curation Lifecycle Model
  • Conceptualise - planning
  • Create - collection & analysis
  • Appraise - selection
  • Ingest - transferring to a custodian
  • Preserve - keeping data over time
  • Store - keeping data safe
  • Access - finding data
  • Transform - generating new data

Session 3: Problems and practical strategies and solutions¶

• What problems are there ?
  • Conflicting considerations
  • Resource issues
  • anything else ?
• Conflicts
  • Confidentiality and sharing
    • personal and sensitive data - anonymisation, consent
• Data security and storage
  • File and folder names
  • Locations
  • Email is not secure
  • Physical security - destroy USB sticks, shred documents
• Metadata