Describing and documenting research data
Finally, you have been granted the long-awaited funding, and you can reuse the research data you collected two years ago for the new research project and continue the project. But you no longer remember what the abbreviations stand for? What do the combinations of numbers describing the columns in the data table mean? What parameters/settings did you use for the measurements?
You can (largely) avoid the situations described above through the structured and (pre-planned) use of metadata and well-designed documentation. In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn details and useful tips on metadata and documentation .
You will learn
- what metadata actually is and where you can find metadata schemas that are useful for your research field.
- what types of documentation there are.
- why it is worthwhile in the long run to invest time in structured documentation.
Basic knowledge of research data management is required for participation.
29 September 2026, 14:00 a.m. - 16:00 p.m., online in Zoom
The lecture language is English.
Lecturer: Tuba Güden-Silber (RUB), Elena Schick (RUB)
This event is part of the Training, Consulting, and Curation Network coordinated by the State Initiative for Research Data Management (fdm.nrw), and is open to external participants from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Please register with your institutional e-mail address!
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If you have any questions or are affiliated to an institution other than the three UA Ruhr universities, please feel free to contact us in advance: researchdata@rub.de
