Sound Data Management Training

h1. Why do Data Management ?

h2. Disaster recovery

h3. Disk Drives Break

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

h3. Buildings burn down

"Southampton University Mountbatten Building Fire":http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Southampton%20University%20Mountbatten%20Building%20Fire

h3. Laptops Break / Get Broken

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

h2. Data Reuse

Do you reuse other people's data ? Can they reuse your's ?

h1. Researcher Development Framework

"SCONUL Information Literacy 7 Pillars Diagrams":http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/diagrams.html

h1. Licensing

Whose data is it anyway ?

Research policies at QMUL "Academic Registry and Council Secretariat":http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/policy_zone/index.html

Creative Commons: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data "CC Licenses":http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses / "CC0":http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

Science Commons: http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/

Restrictions based on data ownership

Restrictions based on data parentage - use of e.g. CC-SA data

Where possible, CC0 with a request for citations is preferred ("Why does Dyad use CC0":http://blog.datadryad.org/2011/10/05/why-does-dryad-use-cc0/)

If data is based on copyright works it may be appropriate to restrict the license to allow only research / non-commercial use (e.g. this would prevent Beatles chord annnotations being published commercially).

h1. Practical Steps Towards Data Management

File formats - use open formats where possible to future-proof files.

File naming - give files meaningful names.

Metadata - include a plain-text README file describing the contents of the files.

License - include a plain-text LICENSE file describing the license for the dataset.

Check that a copy of your data will be backed up - e.g. check that the network drive you store your data on is actually backed up.

h1. Repositories

The appropriate repository will partly depend upon the data.

It could be... C4DM RDR, Dryad, Flick, Archiv.Org...

However, if you want data to be reused in a citable manner remember to package the license and the *required citation* with the data. It means that however the data reaches the final user the only excuse for not being able to cite the data is that someone has bothered to remove the info...

h1. Open Source Learning Tools

"Xerte":http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/index.htm