Title: **Optimizing your research data management**

Version: **April 2020**

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3773657

## CONTENT UPLOADED

There a three types of file uploaded to this Zenodo lesson: 

1. Readme: **README.txt**

It explains the context of the lesson and its content.

2. Presentation / Slides : **RDM_Presentation.pptx**(original), **RDM_Presentation.odp**(converted), **RDM_Presentation.pdf**(converted) 

The presentation is used during the training. Several formats are available.

3. Activity: **RDM_DrillActivities.docx**(original), **RDM_DrillActivities.odt**(converted)

The activity is used with the participants. Several formats are available.


## CONTEXT

### Organization

- Organizer: [EPFL Staff Training Service](www.epfl.ch/campus/services/internal-trainings/internal-trainings/staff-training-service/)

- Trainers: **2 teachers** (of the [EFPL Research Data Library Team](https://go.epfl.ch/rdm) and / or the [EPFL Library Training Team](https://go.epfl.ch/training))

- Registration: **Required**

- Participants: **Maximum 15**

- Duration: **1 day**

- Breaks:
  
  - **2 coffee breaks** (1 morning, 1 afternoon)
  
  - **1 lunch break**

- Final evaluation: **None**

- ECTS: **None**

No special room is needed, but a **projector** is needed.

## Authors and speakers

The [EFPL Research Data Library Team](https://go.epfl.ch/rdm) and the [EPFL Library Training Team](https://go.epfl.ch/training), at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are the main authoring groups. The workshop has been conceived, adapted, rearranged and modified many times by the members of the two teams, with different contributions, to continuously update it since 2015.

### Contact info

#### Address

    EPFL Library
    Rolex Learning Center
    Station 20
    1015 Lausanne

#### Email addresses

* [researchdata@epfl.ch]([researchdata@epfl.ch](mailto:researchdata@epfl.ch)

* [formations.bib@epfl.ch](mailto:formations.bib@epfl.ch)

#### Links

* EPFL Library: [go.epfl.ch/library](https://go.epfl.ch/library)

* EPFL Research Data Library Team: [go.epfl.ch/rdm](https://go.epfl.ch/rdm)

* EPFL Library Training Team: [go.epfl.ch/training](https://go.epfl.ch/training)

## COURSE DESCRIPTION

This introduction course will help you gain the essential knowledge and resources to improve and optimize the management of your research data for the long-term. This course is usually provided as workshop. As this introductory course covers all data management domains, it can be readapted to specific disciplines.

### Motivation

Knowing how to manage and organize research data is becoming one of the sine qua non conditions to guarantee the quality, durability and reproducibility of your data over time. Moreover, many funding agencies are now requiring that a data management plan be in place in order to receive research funding. All public that have or try to anticipate challenges in research data management, whatever data one might have.

### Public

No specific research domain nor specific role are targeted. Nonetheless, the course is best suited to the ones already exposed to at least some RDM topics in an academic environment, i.e. academic researchers, research groups / labs staff, teachers, administrative staff, as well as bachelor or master students. 

### Prerequisites

* Technical: **None specified**

* Data Management: **None specified** 

### Pedagogical objectives

* To acquire the fundamental knowledge regarding research data management and discover the resources at your disposal to better manage your data.
* To master the best practices regarding research data management throughout its life- cycle.
* To grasp the benefits of this practice and better learn how to answer the new requirements from funding agencies.
* To appropriate and put into practice the tools at your disposal to optimize your research data management daily and over time.
* To know the steps and tools to optimize the preparation of your research data management.
* To share your experience with your colleagues.

### Presentation content

1. Intro to the workshop & Introducing participants
2. Theoretical framework
3. DMP
4. Documentation
5. File management
6. Open Science & Tools
7. Storage & Backup
8. DMP hands-on
9. Data masking
10. Publication & Preservation
11. Reuse & Law
12. Wrap-up

### Material

The use of a **laptop** by the participants is not mandatory, but recommended.

Other, provided by the trainers:
- Slide presentation
- Activity


## REUSE

This training material is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommecial  4.0 International License]([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) (CC-BY-NC).