Workshop Series Focuses on Data Management Planning
Health sciences, science and engineering students and professionals can learn best practices for universal data management in a series of workshops offered this month at the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library (HSL).
While much of the series' focus is on STEM fields, this course will be useful for anyone interested in learning more about data management practices and principles. Each workshop includes a teaching portion and hands-on activities.
It's recommended that registrants attend all three workshops, if possible. All workshops will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the HSL Electronic Classroom, G005G.
Workshops:
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Oct. 13 - Data Generation and Collection (Data Management Workshop 1) -
This hands-on workshop will cover topics such as types and formats of
data, file naming conventions, Readme files, data templates, metadata,
and roles and responsibilities with data.
- Oct. 20 - Working with Data (Data Management Workshop 2) - A hands-on workshop that covers topics such as data versioning, data backup, and UCs new Box system.
- Oct. 27 - Data Preservation and Sharing (Data Management Workshop 3) - This hands-on, interactive workshop covers important aspects of data at UC and beyond, including policies at the university and national levels, copyright and data and how UCs systems (Scholar@UC, Research Directory) integrate and use data.
Classes are open to UC students and employees. Register online at http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/home.aspx
For more information, call Kristen Burgess, assistant director for research and informatics at the Health Sciences Library, at 513-558-3071.
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