Love Data Week: Resource Tour 2021

Navigating research data management can be tricky. What resources are available? Who do you contact for help? We hope our newly launched website will help you understand the RDM landscape across the Harvard Longwood Medical Area. Launched in 2021, the new Biomedical Research Data Management Website features an interactive data lifecycle and intuitive navigation to support the research process. In this session, we will tour the new website and point out all the great resources and guidance to help you manage your data effectively....

Research Data Management Short Online Short-Seminar

What a neat study finding, can you do it again? Reproducible results is an essential benchmark in research, regardless of discipline.

Research should be reproducible in two ways. First, your research should be thoroughly described so that other researchers could replicate the study independent of your involvement. Second, your specific research finding must be reproducible using your own data and code by someone else.

In this session, you will learn about best practices for...

Neglecting to develop and implement a detailed naming convention for your data files. Data hot mess.
Failing to sync and back up your data in three separate locations. Deadly data loss.
Saving your data to a proprietary file format that is on the verge of insolvency. Walking dead data.
Facing the shame of having your publication retracted due to data irregularities. The horror. The horror.

Data management is not easy, as is evidenced by these true horror stories of data quality gone wrong. Learn from (and wince...

Happy Open Access Week 2020!

Data management focuses on data organization and sharing. DASH and Dataverse are platforms to help you share your work and increase your scholarly impact. In this session, learn practices and platforms to achieve your open access goals!

Panelists:

• Julie Goldman, Research Data Services Librarian
• Katie Mika, Data Services Librarian
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