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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dls-n8-2021-projectfolder-navy.pdf

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.

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TAGS: Project Organization, Data Management, Data Documentation, File Organization
DATE: 08-2021


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dls-n07-2021-openformats-navy.pdf

Why do open formats matter?

Data management policies must conform to standards that manage the risk of file format obsolescence or degradation.

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TAGS: Open Data, Open Formats, Open Standards, File Formats, Interoperability
DATE: 07-2021


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dls-n06-2021-reuse-navy.pdf

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.

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TAGS: Reusability, Data Reuse, Methods
DATE: 06-2021


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dls-n05-2021-dr-navy.pdf

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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TAGS: Data Repository, Data Archiving, Data Publishing
DATE: 05-2021


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dls-n04-2021-fair-navy.pdf

Be FAIR to your data!

The FAIR principles aim to promote the creation, sharing and reuse of quality, valuable, and responsible data.

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TAGS: FAIR Principles, Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability
DATE: 04-2021


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dls-n03-2021-readme-navy.pdf

README, please!

How to organize your README.

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TAGS: Data Documentation, README, Metadata
DATE: 03-2021


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dls-n02-2021-lovedataweek_1.pdf

UC Love Data Week

Join us on a week-long of presentations, demos, and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation.

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TAGS: Love Data Week, Events, Data Management
DATE: 02-2021


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dls-n01-2021-filenaming.pdf

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.

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TAGS: File Naming, File Organization, Project Organization, Naming Convention
DATE: 01-2021


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Data Deli (RDS Menu)

Data is served! Check out the menu of topics and skills we can "feed" you via consultations, presentations and workshops.

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TAGS: Data Services, Data Management
DATE: 05-2020


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The Spectrum of Human Subjects' Privacy

There are different levels of data protection and different strategies for stripping out identifiers that could directly or indirectly re-identify subjects and produce inadvertent harm to them.

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TAGS: Human Subjects, Data Privacy, Sensitive Data, De-Identification, Confidentiality
DATE: 03-2020