Practical Data Curation and Management for Institutional Repositories

Workshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Workshops and Tutorials

Many repositories are hearing about research data, especially with the spate of recent initiatives such as the US Office of Science and Technology Policy February 2013 memo, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,” and the December 2013 announcement of the Open Research Data pilot in Horizon 2020 in the EU. Some repositories are receiving and storing research data besides publications, and this is bound to increase rapidly, as researchers and institutions seek solutions for publishing and sharing their research data. This 3-hour workshop will teach participants practical strategies for data curation and management -- i.e., how to plan for, review, assess, and clean data, including confidential and restricted data. The workshop will cover practical strategies for checking and verifying code for data analysis and replication. Examples will come from both quantitative and qualitative social, environmental, and health data. Heavy emphasis will be on exercises, discussion, and showcasing what existing data repositories do. Participants will leave with knowledge and experience of reviewing, assessing, managing and curating data collections, and guidance to provide to researchers producing data. Participants should bring their own laptop with web browser. A data editor, such as Stata or Excel, is optional but not required.