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Preservation portals

  • Databib is a searchable catalog/registry/directory/bibliography of research data repositories. Download the list as a Google Doc.
  • re3data.org: This registry allows the easy identification of appropriate research data repositories, both for data producers and users. The registry covers research data repositories from all academic disciplines. Information icons display the principal attributes of a repository, allowing users to identify the functionalities and qualities of a data repository. These attributes can be used for multi-faceted searches, for instance to find a repository for geoscience data using a Creative Commons licence. Repositories include:
  • University of California, Irvine. This guide is compiled by UCI Libraries’ bibliographers who serve on the Libraries’ Data Team
  • Research Data Canada is a collaborative effort to address the challenges and issues surrounding the access and preservation of data arising from Canadian research.
  • The African Development Bank (AfDB) has completed the network of Open Data Platforms in all 54 African countries. The Open Data Platform is part of the AfDB’s “Africa Information Highway” initiative aimed at improving data collection, management, and dissemination in Africa. It will allow open access to the data needed for managing and monitoring development results in African countries, including tracking progress on the MDGs. The Open Data Platform is a direct response to a number of important global and regional initiatives to scale up the availability of quality data on Africa and so foster evidence-based decision-making, public accountability, and good governance.

Online training

Coursera

“Data Analysis”is an eight-week course run by Jeff Leek, an assistant professor of biostatistics at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Lectures are broken up into eight to 10-minute chunks.If you want to understand data analysis, and how you can use this skill to better your business, then this is a great place to start. Source: http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/052915-the-top-10-free-online-courses/2.html

Content Curation Tools
The author has created a comprehensive map of all the curation tools available online and claims to keep it fresh and updated almost on a daily basis.The map presently lists over 250 content curation tools which you can navigate much more easily than it was possible on the earlier versions of this map.On the right side of the map you will find all of the news and content curation tools available online today. On the left side, you can find bookmarking, link lists builders, clippers and lots of tools to operate with RSS feeds (which are still at the heart of a curator’s job).

DataOne
Ten module course – all about data management. These modules formed the basis of a 2 day short course held in Santa Barbara, May 2012. Extensive user evaluations were conducted and the results of those surveys can be view as a summary poster or full report.Authors: Heather Henkel, Viv Hutchison, Carly Strasser, Stacy Rebich Hespanha, Kristin Vanderbilt, Lynda Wayne.

Databib  – Purdue University
Databib is a tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data.Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can search.
For more information about Databib, please contact Michael Witt (mwitt@purdue.edu), Editor.

Research Data Mantra
The course is particularly appropriate for postgraduate students and early career researchers who work with data and would like to learn more about managing their research data. The course content is mainly geared for three disciplines: geosciences, social and political sciences and clinical psychology, however, many of the issues covered apply equally to all research disciplines.arch Data MANTRA is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data.