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Open Science training
Phase 5 - Preserving data
A short presentation on the contribution of trustworthy institutional repositories to making research data FAIR.
This video illustrates how certified digital repositories contribute to making and keeping research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Trustworthy repositories support Open Access to data, as well as Restricted Access when necessary, and they offer support for metadata, sustainable and interoperable file formats, and persistent identifiers for future citation.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (16:10mins)
Course period: Ongoing
This video covers the practicalities of how to share your data, including selecting a repository, writing good metadata, using licenses and what happens next.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (11:26mins)
Course period: Ongoing
Some guidance on how to curate your data at each stage of the research lifecycle.
Leaving your curation decisions until the last minute, such as to meet deposit or other requirements, means your data may not be in the best quality or have the necessarily documentation to make it useable for you or anyone else. This session will walk you through the fundamentals at each step of the lifecycle to have you are more prepared, less stressed, and incur less loss.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (57:31mins)
Course period: Ongoing
A bitesize guide to how data archivists can help researchers make their data FAIR and process it for storage.
This video explains what a CESSDA data archivist is, what archivists do, and why their work is so important now and for the future. It also shows the whole data archiving process, from data depositing to make data published and visible to data archives around Europe. It is the first video in the series of “A Day in the Life of a CESSDA Data Archivist”.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (03:58mins)
Course period: Ongoing
This video considers what happens when a researcher submits data to a data archive, how is it stored, and what steps are taken to prepare it for reuse.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (09:00mins)
Course period: Ongoing
An introduction to archiving research data using the UK Data Service self-deposit ReShare.
This is a workshop designed to give participants a virtual tour of ReShare, where you will learn everything you need to know in order to archive data using our self-deposit repository.
This workshop will be useful if you are an ESRC grant holder whose grant has ended and is required to deposit your research data; if you are a researcher interested in making data available for replication, reuse, or as evidence for a published paper; or if you are just curious to explore how publishing data happens in practice.
The session will cover how to deposit data using a self-deposit repository like ReShare; how to describe a data collection well (i.e. what metadata and documentation should be provided); why providing detailed and accurate metadata is important; how to prepare and upload data and documentation files; and finally what access level and licence is suitable, plus how this is determined for data archived via ReShare.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (60:04mins)
Course period: Ongoing
Useful for those interested in archiving large-scale data in the UK Data Service archive ReShare.
All data offers received by the UK Data Service are appraised in accordance to our Collections Development Selection and Appraisal Criteria, which are informed by our Collections Development Policy. Our decision will be either to accept the data in our curated repository, accept the data in our self-deposit repository ReShare, or advise you to use an institutional repository or alternative place of deposit.
The depositing of large-scale data is fully online from initially offering your collection for deposit to completing the deposit form with accurate catalogue metadata information, signing the licence agreement and sending over the materials. Anyone wishing to deposit a collection with us must have an active account. This webinar is designed for those depositing large-scale data in our curated repository.
The webinar will also briefly introduce the key benefits of depositing data with the UK Data Service as well as our licencing framework.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (51:52mins)
Course period: Ongoing
A guide on how to deposit data in the UK Data Service repository Reshare.
Video showing users step-by-step how to deposit a data collection into the UK Data Service ReShare repository. ReShare is the UK Data Service's online data repository, where researchers can archive, publish and share research data, as open or safeguarded data.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (09:05mins)
Course period: Ongoing
CESSDA’s guide on why data archiving and storing it for future re-use is important.
Language: English
Level: Master’s, PhD, early-stage researcher
Format/length: Video (34:03mins)
Course period: Ongoing
