Research Data Management 101

Storing data: repositories

Overall advantages:

• May preserve your data for the future
• Provides a metadata structure
• Serves as a backup vehicle for your data
• Makes sharing your data accessible and citable by others
• May provide some computational/online analysis tools for people to use your data
• Gives your dataset a unique persistent identifier, e.g., DOI

As a researcher, you still need to:

• Keep thorough documentation
• Keep at least one copy of your data in an open, nonproprietary format