Research Data Management – Introductory Course for Doctoral Students

This introductory course aims at helping doctoral students to develop their knowledge and skills regarding research data management. The topics that will be introduced in this course are organized along the research cycle starting from proposal planning and writing as well as project start up over the data life cycle (including data collection, data analysis and data sharing) to the end of a research project, data archiving and data discovery. By participating in this course you will learn more about the following issues: 

• Why and how to manage research data 

• How to write a research data management plan 

• Exploring existing data sources 

• Documenting research data and defining metadata 

• Sharing and archiving research data 

• Ethical and legal aspects during data collection and data sharing 

Dates

The course will take place online on 26 May 2020.

About the lecturer

Catharina Wasner is Research Data Manager at GIGA.