Research Data Management 101
Completion requirements
Read this lesson. Pay attention to the lifecycle (process) of data sets. Answer the questions in this lesson.
Data lifecycle management (DLM) is the policy or process that governs organizational data use. You learned that data management is an administrative function and DLM is a process to manage and preserve that data. Remember, good DLM includes all the phases of the data lifecycle. This is essential to data-driven decisions and actions taken by organizations daily.
The Lifecycle of a Dataset
Funder requirements
- Funding agencies increasingly requiring people to share outputs of research, including data (and publications)
- Their motivation: extend the impact of their research farther
- What funders require data sharing?
- Most federal agencies and many private funders as well
- What do funders require?
- Data management plan (DMP) submitted with grant application
- Can request funds for data management in the grant
- Sharing of final data produced
- See: http://libraries.mit.edu/oarequirements
- In our case study, my research is funded by NSF; I have to:
- Share all of the data generated in my project
- Include a DMP in my grant application