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Research Data Management

Guide to data management resources for researchers

What is Data Management?

A digital illustration depicting a laptop resting on a yellowfins filing cabinet beside a stack of books. Text at the top reads: "Data management" A digital illustration depicts text on a purpose background reading "Three Main Considerations: Description, Organization, Security" with a paper tag, a yellow folder, and a lock beside each word, respectively. Text on a blue background reads "Use metadata tools + standards for search engine optimization; Stay consistent with how you organize your files; back up your data frequently." with a paper tag, a yellow folder, and a lock beside each point.

Images by Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa, CC BY-NC-SA

Research Data Management involves processes and tools that researchers use to create and save the data they generate over the course of their research. Data may be in various forms including text, transcripts, recordings and numeric data. There are a number of tools that can be used to help organize, format, document, store, protect and preserve your data that will help to save time, increase efficiency, meet grant requirements, improve accessibility and secure your research data. For more information explore the content below and read the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy.

Data Management Resources

During the 2020/21 academic year, Emily Carr University hosted the series, "Digital + Creative Knowledge Sharing: Data Management in Creative Research". Event recordings can be found here.

The Portage Network

Portage "is a national, library-based research data management network" that provides guidance on how to manage research data. Create an account to access the Data Management Plan (DMP) Assistant, an effective tool to help create a data management plan that meets the requirements of the Tri-Agency Funders. Although ECUAD is not one of the partnering institutions, individuals can still sign up and access the DMP Assistant.

UBC Research Data Management

Find information on data management for all stages of the research process. Learn to organize; format; document and describe; store and back up; preserve; and protect your research data. Learn how to make your data publicly available. Learn to publish, license and cite your research data. Learn how to find data to help with your research.

MANTRA

A free online course on digital data management.

It Starts with a Plan: A (Brief) Introduction to Research Data Management

This talk includes an introduction to research data management (RDM) in the context of the Open Access Movement and federal policy, data planning and principles, data storage, and data deposit. The content is also available here: https://ocadu.libguides.com/data.

This presentation is a part of a collaborative series between Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECU) and OCAD University (OCAD U). The series explores themes around responsible conduct in art and design research.

The Conducting Creative Research events were made possible with a SRCR Education and Training Support (SETS) Grant from the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research through the Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) and the Panel on Responsible Conduct (PRCR) of Research on behalf of the three federal research granting agencies: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

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