"Awesome Research Data Management" is a curated list of awesome RDM resources for researchers and organizations.
"Research data are objects that you use and produce during your research life cycle, encompassing datasets, software, code, workflow, models, figures, tables, images and videos, interviews, articles. Data are your research asset." The Turing Way / Guide for Reproducible Research / Research Data Management / Research Data
Research "data management refers to the storage, access and preservation of data produced from a given investigation. Data management practices cover the entire lifecycle of the data, from planning the investigation to conducting it, and from backing up data as it is created and used to long term preservation of data deliverables after the research investigation has concluded. Specific activities and issues that fall within the category of data management include: File naming (the proper way to name computer files); data quality control and quality assurance; data access; data documentation (including levels of uncertainty); metadata creation and controlled vocabularies; data storage; data archiving and preservation; data sharing and reuse; data integrity; data security; data privacy; data rights; notebook protocols (lab or field)." CODATA RDM-Terminology / RDM
In a wider sense research data management include also research information management and research knowledge management.
- General resources
- RDM for researchers
- RDM for organizations
- Discipline-specific repositories
- Research data management (RDM) open training materials ZENODO Community
- Data Management Training (DMT) Clearinghouse is a registry for online learning resources focusing on RDM
- Data Management Skillbuilding Hub is a repository for open educational resources regarding data management
- FAIRsharing is a curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies
- re3data is a registry of research data repositories
- Elixir RDMkit is a RDM toolkit for Life Sciences [git]
- JISC RDM Toolkit
- RDMtoolkit of the library at the University of Western Australia
- Data Management Toolkit @ UNH at University of New Hampshire
- LEARN Toolkit of Best Practice for RDM by fosteropenscience
- Research Data Toolkit at UNC library
- Data Management Expert Guide CESSDA is an advanced guide designed by European experts for social science researchers
- Essentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course
- MANTRA Research Data Management Training is a classic online course
- Datatree - Data Training Engaging End-users is a course for research students and early career researchers in the environmental sciences.
- Research Data Management and Sharing is a Coursera course by Helen Tibbo & Sarah Jones
- Carpentries-style lesson on Research Data Management [git]
- McMaster RDM Webinars [git]
- Research Data Management with DataLad [git]
- RDM at Griffith Uni Library is short guide for self paced RDM [git]
- RDM E-Learning Platform ist eine E-learning-Webseite zum Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement der HTW Chur und der HEG Genf
- PARTHENOS training is a set of training modules in digital humanities and research infrastructures
- FOSTER open science courses
- Managing and Sharing Research Data is an introductory course
- Research data bootcamp is a general online course from University of Bristol
- Data Management Short Course for Scientists by the ESIP Federation in cooperation with NOAA and the Data Conservancy
- RDM Knowledge Base by Uni Bochum
- EUDAT Training
- EOSC-Pillar: RDM Training and support catalogue
- Library Carpentry: FAIR Data and Software [git]
- The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science [git]
- A Research Data Management Handbook OpenAIRE
- Research Data Management Handbook by Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology
- Research Data Management and Data Literacies by Koltay Tibor
- The Data Book: Collection and Management of Research Data by Meredith Zozus
- Hand-book of the modern development specialist is a Complete, Illustrated Guide to Responsible Data Usage, Manners, and General Deportment
- Data Management for Social Scientists: From Files to Databases is a book by Nils Weidmann on data management for the social sciences.
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship is a classic paper on FAIR principles
- FAIR principles at go-FAIR.org with detailed descriptions
- The FAIR Cookbook [git]
- Three-point FAIRification Framework "How to go FAIR" at go-FAIR.org
- FAIR Maturity Indicators and Tools
Use case: a researcher wants to plan, run and finish a research project.
- Benefits of data management by CESSDA
- Benefits of RDM by UP
- Advantages of research data management by UB Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Benefits of good data management by the University of St Andrews
- What are the advantages of managing research data? by UB TUM
- Benefits of Data Management by UCDL
- Benefits of RDM by FU Berlin
- Benefits of Open Data by Emory Library
Check out research data center at your university. They will guide you in RDM for free.
- Data management costing tool and checklist by UK Data Service
- Guide on research data management costs by LCRDM
- How to identify and assess RDM costs is an OpenAIRE guide for H2020 grants
It makes sense only in big research projects.
- Data management coordination in RDMkit
- RDMO Research Data Management Organiser is funded by DFG
- DMPonline is created by Digital Curation Centre (DCC), UK
- Data Stewardship Wizard is created by ELIXIR CZ and NL
- DMPTool by CDL, USA
- Data Management Plan Catalogue by the LIBER Research Data Management Working Group
- Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management [zenodo]
- Creating a data management plan (DMP) document by OSF
- Existing data in RDMkit
- Reusing existing data by Ghent University
First, find it.
- Search in a suitable data repository which you can find in Registries.
- Search at
- Check the links in data papers published in data journals:
- Data by MDPI
- Scientific Data by Nature
- Data in brief by ScienceDirect
Check quality of the data. Check licenses. If you reuse data, cite it.
- Data collecting in RDMkit
Reusing existing data Collecting new data
- Data organization in RDMkit
File naming
File versioning
Folder structure
Separate storage for sensitive data
Data Masking Pseudonimisation Aggregation Derived Data
- Data provenance in RDMkit
There are many benefits to sharing data.
You can share the data via GitHub
Data journals
"from infographics to narrative reports, case studies and long form investigative articles, to graffiti or conceptual art"
- License chooser
- RDA & CODATA Legal Interoperability Of Research Data: Principles And Implementation Guidelines
- Auffinden-Zitieren-Dokumentieren by ZBW, GESIS and RatSWD
- Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook [pdf]
- How to Develop RDM Services - a guide for HEIs
- The Realities of Research Data Management. Part Four: Sourcing and Scaling University RDM Services
- DOI registration agencies is a list of current DOI registration agencies
- URN is a list of all registered namespaces provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
- LEARN Project resources are resources to help Research Performing Institutions manage their research data
- OpenMethods.Dariah is a list of digital humanities tools and methods
- BARTOC registry of terminology registries
- The Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications (BARTOC) includes all types of KOS in any format, across all subject areas.
- FAIRsharing is a curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies
- Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) is a directory of RDF vocabularies
- Patrick Sahle's Catalog of Digital Scholarly Editions
- RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources
- TEI Publisher is a software for publishing digital editions