Sound Data Management Training

h1. Evidence Promoting Good Data Management

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[[Disasters]]

[[Tales Of Lost Data]]

h2. The Lost Laptop Problem

* 2010 Ponemon Institute report for Intel re. US laptops

** On average, 2.3% of laptops assigned to employees are lost each year

** In education & research that rises to 3.7%, with 10.8% of laptops being lost before the end of their useful life

*** ~3 years i.e. within 1 PhD of allocation!

** 75% lost outside the workplace

* Very similar results from 2011 European report!

Intel 2010, The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/8c9m4bn

Intel 2011, The Billion Euro Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/9wpbxn9

h2. [[Reliability]]

h2. Data management in the cloud

See JISC/DCC document "Curation In The Cloud" - http://tinyurl.com/8nogtmv

Service agreements may give wide-ranging rights to the data service.

h3. Google Terms Of Service

1 March 2012 Google Terms of Service : http://tinyurl.com/89dc9fa

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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give

Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,

reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from

translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your

content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly

perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you

grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting,

and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license

continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a

business listing you have added to Google Maps).

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h3. Microsoft Services Agreement

19 October 2012 Microsoft services agreement : http://tinyurl.com/8e4kucy

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When you upload your content to the services, you agree that it may

be used, modifed, adapted, saved, reproduced, distributed, and

displayed to the extent necessary to protect you and to provide, protect

and improve Microsoft products and services. For example, we may

occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email,

chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and

malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them

easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to

help preserve your privacy.

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h2. Archiving Data

h3. BBC Domesday Project

1986 Project to do a modern-day Domesday book (early crowd-sourcing)

* Used “BBC Master” computers with data on laserdisc

* Collected 147,819 pages of text and 23,225 photos

* Media expiring and obsolete technology put the data at risk!

Domesday Reloaded (2011)

* Required emulation of software

* Images restored from original masters

* http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

To allow long-term access to data

* Don't use obscure formats!

* Don't use obscure media!

* Don't rely on technology being available!

* Do keep original source material!

Google images for "BBC Domesday":https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=bbc+domesday

h2. Sharing Data

Piwowar, Heather A., Roger S. Day, and Douglas B. Fridsma. "Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate.":http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000308

PLoS One 2.3 (2007): e308.

h2. Related Media

h3. Disk Drives Break

"DataCent collection of disk drive failure sounds":http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

h3. Laptops Break / Get Broken

* "Shot laptop":http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/tag/laptop-destroyed/

* "Google images of broken laptops":https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=broken%20laptop&um=1&tbm=isch

[[Further Reading]]