Research Data Management: Support & Training
Bringing together University resources and services to facilitate researchers in the production of high quality data.
Library Webinars
Build Your Research Skills @ UCD Library
This semester we are running in-person presentations and workshops on a range of practical topics to help support your research. Click on the image above for the full list of events available to book.
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Help@UCD: One-to-one Support
Presentations
Here you can find the slides of some of our presentations:
- Writing a Data Management Plan - From Funding Proposal to Full DMPWriting a Data Management Plan - From Funding Proposal to Full DMP, presentation delivered 29/01/2020
- Managing your Research DataManaging your Research Data (All Disciplines) presented 4th April 2019
- Managing your Research Data (AHSS)Managing your Research Data (AHSS), presented 6th February 2019
- Preserving your Digital MemoriesPreserving your Digital Memories, presented on World Digital Preservation Day, 7th November 2019
- Open Science & FAIR Data in Horizon 2020Presentation given to TEAM ITN covering topics such as Open Science, Open Data and FAIR data, and the Horizon 2020 requirements with regards to sharing of research data. Delivered 2018-03-27.
- Data caring (November 2016)Data caring: Why manage your research data?
- Writing a Data Management Plan with DMPonline (November 2016)Writing a Data Management Plan with DMPonline
External Training Resources: Discipline Specific
Social Sciences:
- CESSDA Data Management Expert GuideThis guide is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
Humanitites:
- Research Data Management for Arts and Humanities: Integrating Voices of the CommunityHere you can find the interactive publication "Research Data Management for Arts and Humanities: Integrating Voices of the Community", published in 2023 by the DARIAH Working Group on Research Data Management under license CC BY 4.0.
- PARTHENOS Portalthe PARTHENOS cluster of humanities research infrastructure projects has devised this series of training modules and resources for researchers, educators, managers, and policy makers who want to learn more about research infrastructures and the issues and methods around them.
Archaeology:
- Archeology Data Service Data Management AdviceOpen Access Post-Graduate Teaching Materials in Managing Research Data in Archaeology
External Training Resources: General Researcher Focused Materials
Postgraduates, PhD students and early career researchers:
- Data TreeData Tree is a free online course with all you need to know for research data management, along with ways to engage and share data with business, policymakers, media and the wider public. The course is for any scientist, whether you look after your own data or are guided by an organisation. The course is especially aimed at PhD students and early career researchers but is for anyone who wants to get the right data habits now, including thinking of end-users of your data.
General:
- Essentials 4 Data SupportEssentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course for those people who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.
- FOSTER Open Science Training CoursesThese courses answer some of the most common questions you might have about putting open science into practice. Each course takes about 1-2 hours to work through and you’ll receive a badge upon completion. The courses include practical tips on getting started with OS as well as providing information on discipline specific tools and resources you can use. There is no specified order through the courses – just explore topics that you want to learn more about at your own pace.
- LEARN Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data ManagementThe Toolkit expands on the issues outlined in the LERU Roadmap for Research Data (2013). It is nearly 200 pages long, and includes:
23 Best-Practice Case Studies from institutions around the world, drawn from issues in the original LERU Roadmap; 8 Main Sections, on topics such as Policy and Leadership, Open Data, Advocacy and Costs; One Model RDM Policy, produced by the University of Vienna and accompanied by guidance and an overview of 20 RDM policies across Europe; An Executive Briefing in six languages, aimed at senior institutional decision makers. - Science Europe: Practical Guide on Research Data ManagementDeveloped by experts from Science Europe Member Organisations, this guide aims to align research data management (RDM) requirements across various research organisations.
- MANTRA Research Data Management TrainingMANTRA is a free online course for those who manage digital data as part of their research project.
Love Data Week 2018
Love Data Week 2018 took place between Monday 12th and Friday 16th February 2018. Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of the Love Data Week event is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.
During Love Data Week 2018 UCD Library hosted two very successful events. The theme of this year's Love Data Week was Data Stories so UCD Library invited selected academics to come and talk about their use of research data.