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Steve Welburn, 2012-06-29 04:04 PM

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h1. DataTrain
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DataTrain for "archaeology":http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/learning/DataTrain and for "social anthropology":http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/datatrain/socanthintro.html
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* DataTrain: research data managmeent training modules in Social Anthropology ("Jorum":http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15994)
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* DataTrain: research data managmeent training modules in Archaeology ("Jorum":http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15992)
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h2. Archaeology
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Licensed CC-BY-NC-SA
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bq. Modules:
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# Creating and managing research data in archaeology: an overview
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# Data lifecycles and management plans
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# Working with digital data
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# Rights and digital data
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# E-Theses and supplementary digital data
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# Archiving digital data
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# Post-Graduate data management plans
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# Project and professional data: data management on post-doctoral research projects and beyond
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bq. The teaching modules were run as a trial course in March 2011, as part of a post-graduate course in Digital Skills for Dissertation and Publications, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. The data management course comprised 4 x 2 hour sessions:
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# Creating and Managing Data - Defining post-graduate research data
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# Working with Digital Data
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File structure, naming, and formats
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E-theses and supplementary digital data
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Post-Graduate Data Management Plans
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# Project and Professional Data
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Data management for larger research projects
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# Archiving and Re-using Data
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Depositing digital data
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Intellectual Property Rights and research data
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bq. Each module has been designed to take approximately 30 minutes to complete. Six of the eight presentations have between 10 and 16 slides (including front title and end acknowledgement slides). The two longer modules are Module 3: Working with Digital Data; and Module 8: Project and Professional Data.
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bq. Module 3 (Working with Digital Data) has 38 slides many of which contain a lot of information on different file types and formats. This information has been summarised from the Archaeology Data Service’s Guides to Good Practice, and content most relevant to post-graduate students is presented in a straight forward way. Rather that spending an hour presenting Module 3 in detail (and boring the students to death), it is suggested that the slides be presented as a ‘lightening tour’ of the practical issues of working with digital data. The slides can then be made available for future reference by the students as a handout.
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bq. Module 8 (Project and Professional Data) provides an introduction into data management at a higher level of research, including writing AHRC Technical Appendices. While this can be run as a stand alone session, given that this is the desired career path of many doctoral students, and the fact that many doctoral students carry out their research as part of larger projects, the aim of the module is to round off the post-graduate course by looking forward beyond the submission of a PhD Thesis.