Love Data Week: Documenting Your Research Data

Description

As part of Love Data Week, Data Services is hosting a tutorial on Documenting Your Research Data presented by Chen Chiu, senior data management consultant in data services.

Documenting your research data is a prerequisite for data sharing and your own use of your data in the future. Good documentation helps your data be discoverable, understood, and trusted by others. We will discuss the following topics in this workshop:

• Metadata standards: Using metadata standards will help you stay consistent in your documentation and ensures other researchers in your field can understand and re-use your data.
• Documenting tabular data: Tabular data is one of the most widely used ways to structure research data.
• Documenting code: Researchers often write code to acquire, manage and analyze research data. Providing good documentation for your code is important for others to understand and reuse your scripts.