This section contains information on how Research Data Management can be applied to support research. This is the type of information that should be considered when writing a data management plan and implemented early in the research design.
You will find information on navigating ethical review and approaching informed consent with the goal of creating re-usable data. There is an introduction to anonymising data to enable re-use within the Data Protection Act, and how to keep that data safe from accidental or malicious access and loss. It will help with collecting documentation and metadata information to give research contextual meaning. Advice is also provided on how to organise data within a collection, including useful strategies for naming files and variables in a data set, their appearance, and version control. There is also information on appropriate file formats to select with long-term preservation and access in mind.