Open Data & Data Management

SPARC  - (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Open Data Website. 

Open Data Factsheet from SPARC 

The Open Data Handbook

re3data.org  -Registry of Research Data Repositories

Learn more about Open Data by watching this short video produced by Socrata Education: The Story of Open Data – History and Fundamental Concepts

Research Data Management (RDM) involves the organization, storage, preservation, and sharing of data collected during the course of a research project.  

Why Research Data Management is Important?

• Many funding agencies are requiring data management plans to promote data sharing and to ensure future access to grant supported research data.  
• Archiving and providing access to your data benefits you, other researchers, and the broader scholarly community.
• Scholarly journal publishers are requiring data be publicly available to prevent fraud and allow others to validate and replicate findings.
• Ensures that data will be preserved for future researchers to discover, interpret, and reuse.
• Increases the impact of your research.

Research Data Life Cycle (source: Based on UK Data Archive Data Life Cycle)