Managing Research Data

Contact the Research and Scholarly Communications Team to set up an appointment to discuss your data.

General Learning Resources

• Canada's Tri-Agency Draft Policy on Research Data Management
• The Portage Network Training Resources. Portage is Canada's national research data management network
• Coursera has a Massively Open Online Course on Research Data Management and Sharing
• Mantra is a self-paced set of learning modules on RDM topics and is one of the original research data management courses

Planning

• DMP Assistant is an online wizard / tool to help write Research Data Management Plans that comply with current and anticipated guidelines on Research Data Management
• Portage Brief Guide to Data Management Plans

Documenting and organizing your Data

• Cornell University, Guide to readme style metadata
• UK Data Archive, Organizing Data

Data Structure

• Article Data Organizing in Spreadsheets 
• Digital Humanities Workbench, Structured Data
• UK Data Archive, Data formats

Sharing and Archiving

• Western University Dataverse (Dataverse Quick Guide)
• The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) (FRDR Quick Guide)

• OpenICPSR, from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research