{"id":4314,"date":"2025-09-04T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:34:23","slug":"data-management-training-autumn-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2025\/09\/04\/data-management-training-autumn-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Management Training &#8211; Autumn 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Edinburgh courses are<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/library.ed.ac.uk\/research-support\/research-data-service\/research-data-training-skills\/workshops-courses\">now available to book on all topics dealing with research data management<\/a><\/strong>. Aimed at postgraduate research students and academic staff, these four courses are taught by experts from the Library\u2019s Research Data Support team, and cover all aspects of managing digital data for a research project. Each course is offered multiple times during the term, at different campus locations and online.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4315\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Young man with laptop on table with Edinburgh Castle seen through the window.\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/HJ2A6974-Sam-Sills-X3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are new to concepts of research data management (RDM) you may wish to take the &#8220;Data Management for your Research&#8221; overview course (1.5 hours). You will be able to apply basic RDM skills to your daily research practices and understand what the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) mean and why they matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting a Data Management Plan for Your Research\u201d: in this interactive two-hour workshop you will understand the basic components of good DMP, and will produce a first draft Data Management Plan (DMP) for your research project using a tool called DMPonline.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the University\u2019s online Data Protection training, \u201cWorking with Personal and Sensitive Data\u201d will prepare you for the challenges of dealing with human subject and other types of confidential data: how to collect, share, store and protect your data safely and securely, and what university services are available to help you (two hours).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArchiving Your Research Data\u201d (1.5-2 hours) helps you to plan ahead to when your <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh-300x130.png\" alt=\"logo datashare_edinburgh\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh-1024x443.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh-500x216.png 500w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/files\/2025\/08\/datashare_edinburgh.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>research project is approaching completion and it is time to find an appropriate repository to share or safeguard the underlying data for your paper, thesis or dissertation for the long-term. You will gain familiarity with using the University\u2019s open acess data repository, DataShare, and know about an alternative restricted access solution, DataVault, as well as how to identify other appropriate repositories. <span data-teams=\"true\">If you are unable to attend any of these scheduled Archiving Your Research Data workshops, you can request additional sessions via our online form: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=sAafLmkWiUWHiRCgaTTcYWqoaGoPWQVGjs-ykXySD7lURE1SNkQwT1RaVUtPTkpVNUlKT1RKMFdOTy4u&amp;route=shorturl\">Request training: Archiving your Research Data<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All of the above courses are available to book through our scheduled workshops web page: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.ed.ac.uk\/research-support\/research-data-service\/research-data-training-skills\/workshops-courses\">Research Data Service &#8211; Scheduled workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Rice<br \/>\nData Librarian and Head, Research Data Support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Edinburgh courses are now available to book on all topics dealing with research data management. Aimed at postgraduate research students and academic staff, these four courses are taught by experts from the Library\u2019s Research Data Support team, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2025\/09\/04\/data-management-training-autumn-2025\/\">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":[5,158,22],"tags":[91,131,125],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314"}],"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=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}