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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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.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Repository, Data Archiving, Data Publishing
DATE: 05-2021
Be FAIR to your data!
The FAIR principles aim to promote the creation, sharing and reuse of quality, valuable, and responsible data.
PDF - ALTTAGS: FAIR Principles, Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability
DATE: 04-2021
README, please!
TAGS: Data Documentation, README, Metadata
DATE: 03-2021
UC Love Data Week
Join us on a week-long of presentations, demos, and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Love Data Week, Events, Data Management
DATE: 02-2021
The Dos and Don'ts of File Naming
Adopting good practices for file naming prevents accidental overwrites or deletions, makes it easier to locate and access data, and prevents confusion if multiple people are working on shared files and folders.
PDF - ALT