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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Data Management Planning Made Easy (DMPTool)
This document helps researchers strategize and outline plans for data generation, organization, preservation, and sharing during and after the research project.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Management, DMPTool, Funder Mandates
DATE: 05-2022
Meet Dryad
Dryad is a data repository solution supported by the UC system, which promotes data discoverability, reusability, and citability.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Repository, Data Archiving, Dryad, Data Publishing
DATE: 05-2022
Minding Text Data Mining
Text Data Mining (TDM) is a research process for deriving high-quality information based on insights and patterns from text corpora.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Text Data Mining, TDM, Text Analytics
DATE: 03-2022
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 - ALT