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Research Surveys

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Research Data Management Session

Creating a research data management plan: what are the kinds of things you should consider?

To find out the who, what, where, when, and why … not to mention the how, come along to this presentation by Belinder Weaver, Manager, Research Data Collections Service.

The session will:

Data use in the humanities

humanities.jpg The traditional view of humanities scholars is of the patient worker toiling away alone in archives or on manuscripts. Has the growth and spread of digital humanities challenged that view?

Social Anthropology research 'how-to'

Pre-fieldwork PhD, Master's students and early career researchers in social anthropology will find good advice on research practices in their discipline here. The advice is presented in three modules:

'Research data management' this Thursday 4 August

Skills Training - UQ Graduate School

Research students come to a 'Research data management' session in the Library on:

Thursday 4 August
3pm - 4pm

Library Conference Room, Duhig Building (#2)

Register online.

The session will include information on creating a research data management plan. What are the kinds of things you should consider?

Open door to CSIRO data

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) works on four main areas that inform their mission: access to information, sharing policy expertise, meeting space for nations, and bringing knowledge to the field. Although they work in both developed and developing countries, as well as rural and urban areas, the FAO has concentrated their efforts on rural areas, as that is where the majority of poor and hungry people reside.

Managing data through the life cycle

Working papers from the 2011 Workshop on Research Data Lifecycle Management are now available. The workshop was held from July 18-20, 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Papers include:

  • Management and Preservation of Research Data: Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?
  • Communicating Scientific Data from the Present to the Future.
  • An Excel Add­-in to Make Scientific Data Publishable, Shareable and Archiveable.

Around the worm

The Worm Atlas is a database of the behavioural and structural anatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans, the transparent roundworm. The various types are covered and there are detailed images of the alimentary, excretory, and muscle systems. There is also information on specific sections of the roundworm.

Data management day

Papers from the Research Data Management Policy Summit, hosted by the University of Sydney, in June, are now available.