Postgraduate Course: Fundamentals of Data Management (PGPH11088)
Course Outline
| School | School of Physics and Astronomy |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Better and more effective approaches to managing digital research data are becoming increasingly important in computational science and beyond. The scientific data sets that underpin research papers can now occupy many gigabytes of storage, and are increasingly complex and challenging to work with. This course introduces students to the ideas, methods and techniques of modern, digital research data management. It will cover:
- Why managing research data better matters, and why it's hard
- Data management planning: a required part of twenty first century research
- Data formats: structuring data and keeping them useful
- Metadata: describing data and keeping them useful
- Publication and citation of research data
- Persistence, preservation and provenance of research data
- Licensing, copyright and access rights: some things researchers need to know |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students should understand:
- the importance of research data management in general, and in relation to their own potential futures as researchers or technologists
- the broad global landscape of data management initiatives, infrastructures and projects, and the challenges they address
- the essential elements in a research data management plan, how to create one, and how to implement it in practice
- the importance of structuring research data, what standard data formats exist and when and how to use them
- the importance of descriptive metadata, how to write good metadata (and how to avoid bad metadata), what standard formats exist and when to use them
- how data are published, cited and preserved, and the issues and challenges we face in recording research data for the long-term
- some of the legal pitfalls research data creators and users need to avoid
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | FDM |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Carter
Tel: (0131 6)50 6009
Email: A.carter@epcc.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Ben Morse
Tel: (0131 6)51 3398
Email: Ben.Morse@ed.ac.uk |
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