Organising and describing research data
Guidance for enriching your research with descriptive metadata to aid interpretation of your data.
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Describing research data with a README
A README file explains the background of a research project and helps you and other people to understand the research data.
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Research metadata
Enrich your research data and artefacts with high-quality metadata to make them more discoverable, reusable and verifiable.
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Naming and organising files
Organising and naming files and folders logically makes it easier for you to find research data files and understand their contents.
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Tidy data
Tidy data is an approach to organising tabular data so that it is easy to manipulate, model and visualise.
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FAIR principles for research data
How to make research data and artefacts findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR).
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Choosing research data storage
University-managed research data storage options, and how to request a Research Drive or Dropbox team folder.
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