News and resources
Research data management training
- Training | Digital Curation Centre
The Digital Curation Centre is a well-established training provider in digital curation and research data management. This training program aims to equip researchers and data custodians with the skills they need to share and preserve data effectively.
Resources
- How to develop a data management and sharing planSarah Jones from the Digital Curation Centre outlines the process of developing a data management and sharing plan.
- Data management planningAn ANDS guide of particular interest to researchers and others in the research team who are charged with
managing data for a research project or an institution.
News
- ARDC Newsletter
ARDC provides a fortnightly email newsletter packed with data news, events, jobs, resources and much more.
Books
Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
Practical, clear and focused the book effectively shows how NVivo software can accommodate and assist analysis across a wide range of research questions, data types, perspectives and methodologies
Structured Search for Big Data
The WWW era made billions of people dramatically dependent on the progress of data technologies, out of which Internet search and Big Data are arguably the most notable. Structured Search paradigm connects them via a fundamental concept of key-objects evolving out of keywords as the units of search. The key-object data model and KeySQL revamp the data independence principle making it applicable for Big Data and complement NoSQL with full-blown structured querying functionality. The ultimate goal is extracting Big Information from the Big Data.
Qualitative Methodologies and Data Collection Methods: Toward Increased Rigour in Management Research
Globalisation opens new frontiers of research that require advanced research methods. While quantitative methods are ideal in some situations, qualitative methods are more appropriate for responding to "how" questions in new contexts.
Useful links
- Data management plansFrom the Australian Research Data Commons.
- Digital Curation CentreThe Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is an internationally-recognised centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management.
- Managing and Sharing Data : UK Data ArchiveThe information provided in this guide is designed to help
researchers and data managers, across a wide range of
research disciplines and research environments, produce
highest quality research data with the greatest potential for
long-term use - Research Data AustraliaYou can find, access, and reuse research data from over 100 Australian organizations, agencies, and institutions. The data is not stored there, but it provides descriptions and links to partner sites.
- Registry of Research Data Repositories
re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions