Research Data Management

What is Research Data Management?

Research data management (RDM) is the care and maintenance of data produced during a research cycle. It includes how you:

• create and organize data
• process data
• analyze data
• preserve and archive data
• give access to data
• reuse data

Managing your research data well is one best ways to ensure standardization, reproducibility, and the ability to disseminate your research to others with minimal efforts and time.

Data Sharing and Management Snafu

This video (4:40 minutes) portrays a data management cautionary tale of what should not happen when a researcher makes a data sharing request. Topics included are: storage, documentation, and file formats.