Storing, preserving, and sharing data at the end of the research: Introduction and wrap-up

M1 Research Data Management M2 Visibility of the activity and networking Orientation module M4 Advice and technical support M3 CAS in DATA STEWARDSHIP INTRODUCTION Storing, preserving and sharing data at the end of the research Brian Kleiner (FORS) 7 ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION This presentation is released under a CC BY 4.0 license, which means that you are free to reuse, distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, we highly recommend to license the modified material under identical terms. This course is part of the CAS in Data Stewardship. Author Brian Kleiner Provider FORS Title Storing, preserving, and sharing data at the end of the research: Introduction Education level Graduate Language English License CC BY 4.0 Estimate total time 20 minutes Version v20241114 How to attribute KLEINER, B. (FORS) 2024. Storing, preserving, and sharing data at the end of the research: Introduction [Lausanne]. CAS Data Stewardship UNIL. 22 November 2024. 8 CONTEXT Environment, options, purposes •Push towards open research and open data •Insistence on more transparency in scientific research, as many published results are not reproducible (e.g., the replication crisis in psychology) •Researchers are asked to make their data and other research materials available, by funders, journals, their institutions, and their peers FIRST, A REMINDER – THE NEW RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT 9 •A project ends and a researcher or a team must decide what to do with the data that were gathered and used. •Delete everything? Save for oneself for future reference or use? Make the data available for others? •These questions all have practical implications in terms of data handling, documentation, and data protection. They are addressed in this lesson. END OF PROJECT – WHAT COMES NEXT? 10 •Delete data and documentation, or at least everything that might include personal information •Keep data and documentation for personal use •Make data available to others GENERAL OPTIONS FOR DATA PRODUCERS 11 1. Making possible re-use of data •For new research questions •For teaching •For inspiration 2. Making possible reproducibility and replicability •Reproducibility ensures that results are accurate and trustworthy •Replicability provides evidence that findings are reliable and applicable to a wider range of situations or contexts TWO MAIN PURPOSES OF PRESERVATION AND SHARING 12 13 GENERAL DEFINITIONS Data storage, data preservation, data sharing Data storage refers to the act of saving data in a digital format on various types of media, such as hard drives, SSDs, optical discs, cloud storage, and more. DATA STORAGE 14