{"id":3892,"date":"2022-10-05T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2022-10-05T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:39:59","slug":"new-data-archiving-unit-in-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2022\/10\/05\/new-data-archiving-unit-in-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"New data archiving unit in MANTRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime is always a good time to renew and refresh \u2013 including open educational resources like Research Data MANTRA, <a href=\"https:\/\/mantra.ed.ac.uk\">https:\/\/mantra.ed.ac.uk<\/a>, a free online course \u201cfor those who manage digital data as part of their research project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MANTRA\u2019s lead editor Bob Sanders, in Library Research Support, has been busy in between his summer holidays getting all the topical units fit for new postgrads and early career researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In particular each of the units\u2019 links, images, videos, activities and further reading sections have been renewed, following a rolling revamp of most of the sections\u2019 written content over the last couple of years. Two of the units, \u2018Files, formats and transformation,\u2019 and \u2018Documentation, metadata and citation\u2019 have been retired and \u00a0replaced by a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mantra.ed.ac.uk\/preparingyourdataforarchiving\/\">\u2018Preparing your data for archiving\u2019<\/a><\/strong> section, covering why and how to publish your data in a trustworthy repository.<\/p>\n<p>We are also aware that the data handling tutorials, separate from the other units, have become more or less outdated and while we decide how to address this, users should be aware of the last update date on each set of those downloadable materials.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we practice what we preach in terms of archiving, and so previous units that have been revamped have been archived on the Zenodo site, (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.1035218\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.1035218<\/a>), along with the retired \u2018DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.6532049\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.6532049<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to take this opportunity to thank Bob for acting as lead editor for MANTRA in recent years and for stewarding it through so many new developments in the field of research data management, and to wish him well in his new role as SCADR Training Manager in the School of GeoSciences.<\/p>\n<p>For the complete set of RDM training by the Research Data Service, including live sessions, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/is\/data-training\">https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/is\/data-training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Rice<br \/>\nData Librarian and Head, Research Data Support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime is always a good time to renew and refresh \u2013 including open educational resources like Research Data MANTRA, https:\/\/mantra.ed.ac.uk, a free online course \u201cfor those who manage digital data as part of their research project.\u201d MANTRA\u2019s lead editor Bob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2022\/10\/05\/new-data-archiving-unit-in-mantra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,22],"tags":[79],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}