A monthly series of infographics on research data
Published by the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) department, the Data Literacy Series (DLS) are visually-compelling one-page handouts that break down complex and important data-related topics. DLS complement the RDS's instructional efforts and mission to promote data education and research data management practices. The handouts are distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu.
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Make your Citations Permanent with Perma.cc
Perma.cc keeps any links referenced in your research or publications from changing or disappearing. It captures and archives a snapshot in time of the web resources you cite.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Citation, Persistent Identifiers, Permanent Links, Perma.cc
DATE: 02-2022
CARE Principles
CARE is the acronym for a set of purpose-oriented principles for Indigenous Data Governance. It complements the FAIR principles, reflecting the crucial role of data in advancing Indigenous innovation and self-determination.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Sovereignty, Data Governance, CARE Principles, Indigenous Data
DATE: 01-2022
Open Science Community (Data Tools)
TAGS: Open Tools, Data Tools, Reproducibility, Open Source
DATE: 12-2021
Championing Code Documentation
Sharing well-documented code along with research data has become essential in today's data-driven computational science.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Documentation, README, Reproducibility, Code Documentation
DATE: 11-2021
Know Your Rights & Use Data Right!
Before sharing your data, you should choose an appropriate license to govern who can re-use the data, under which conditions, and for what purposes. Relatedly, data reusers must understand what each license entails and comply with terms and responsibilities.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Licensing, Creative Commons, Copyright
DATE: 10-2021
Take full control of file versions!
Managing asynchronous contributions to multiple documents can be time consuming and cumbersome, especially in highly collaborative projects.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Version Control, Data Management, Project Organization
DATE: 09-2021
What should you keep in your project folder?
To ease data management and make your research more shareable and reproducible, we suggest you organize your project folder following this basic structure.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Project Organization, Data Management, Data Documentation, File Organization
DATE: 08-2021
Why do open formats matter?
Data management policies must conform to standards that manage the risk of file format obsolescence or degradation.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Open Data, Open Formats, Open Standards, File Formats, Interoperability
DATE: 07-2021
How can research data be reused?
Pre-existing publicly available data can be reused multiple times by their creators and collectors or by other parties not involved in the original study.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Reusability, Data Reuse, Methods
DATE: 06-2021
How to choose a Data Repository?
In this issue we describe the repository types, where you can find them and things you should consider when choosing a DR either to deposit or to find data for reuse.
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