engaging students with research data management: the modular approach

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Office of Scholarly Communication

Office of Scholarly Communication

Engaging Students with Research Data Management

Claire SewellResearch Support Skills Coordinator

Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge University

The Modular Approach

ces43@cam.ac.uk@ces43

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• What is RDM?

• Teaching RDM at Cambridge

• Example module(s)

• Activity: Create your own workshop

• Group feedback

• Strategies for engagement

Workshop outline

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Managing and sharing the data produced by research

Required by many funders (& good practice)

Links to library skill set

What is RDM?

!Data means different things to different people!

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Research Data Facility:

RDM@Cambridge

• Programme of events and training

• Data repository

• Funder guidance

• Consultancy services

• Advocacy and outreach

Research Data website

OSC Teaching RDM at Cambridge

OSC Modular approach

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OSC Modular approach

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OSC Example module

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• Data backup

• File sharing

• Data organisation

• Sharing your data

• Funder policies

• Data management plans

Workshop structure

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Data OrganisationScience, Technology and

Engineering (STEM)

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Organising your data

OSC How do you organise your data?

Vincent Gaggioli

OSC How do you organise your data?

Vincent Gaggioli

OSC How do you organise your data?

Vincent Gaggioli

OSC Which one is better and why?

Slido.com: #2088

A B

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Be consistentBe meaningful to you and your colleaguesEnable you to find files easily

Would you be able to easily get hold of your own files?

Your strategy needs to:

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Develop a structure

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Physical samples

OSC How do you organise physical samples?

Vincent Gaggioli

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Marta Teperek, PhD physical sample organisation

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Create maps of your samples• can be simple Excel spreadsheets• and keep them up to date!

Reference your samples:• dates in notebooks• supplier’s name/code

Add any relevant notes

Management of physical samples

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File naming strategies

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Do file naming conventions matter?

OSC Do file naming conventions matter?

In 3 years time would you know what these are?

OSC File naming conventions

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/files/gdl_tilsdocnaming_v1_20090612.pdf

OSC File naming conventions

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/files/gdl_tilsdocnaming_v1_20090612.pdf

OSC Module example

How to Organise Information

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)

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Organising your data

OSC Which one is better and why?

Slido.com: #2088

A B

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Be consistentBe meaningful to you and your colleaguesAllow you to find files easily

Would you be able to easily get hold of your own files?

Your strategy needs to:

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Mendeley

Zotero

Training is available via departmental libraries

Reference managers

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File naming strategies

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Do file naming conventions matter?

OSC Do file naming conventions matter?

In 3 years time would you know what these are?

OSC File naming conventions

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/files/gdl_tilsdocnaming_v1_20090612.pdf

OSC File naming conventions

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/files/gdl_tilsdocnaming_v1_20090612.pdf

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Describing your information

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Create a small Lego model – use all the bricks

Write a description of your model (NOT step by step instructions)

Describing your information

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Swap your instructions with another group

Can you recreate their model?

Activity designed by Eleanor Barker, Joyce Heckman and Kirsten Lamb

Describing your information

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End of the module

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• Same basic structure• Changes in terminology• Tailored examples• Different activities for different disciplines• Length of module

Things to note

OSC Activity: Create your own workshop

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You have been asked to develop an RDM workshop for the audience in your packs

How will you use the elements available to create a bespoke workshop?

Activity: Create your own workshop

OSC Feedback

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• Talk to your audience about their needs• Make the workshop meaningful • Attainable level of learning• Make learning a group activity• Allow your audience to be an active

participant in shaping the workshop• Make it fun!

Strategies

!One size DOES NOT fit all!

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