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.
Sharing & Preserving Data
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