Introduction to Research Data Management - Getting started with Data Management and Data Stewardship

17 - 20 June 2024 Four mornings, Belval Campus, Luxembourg Register here
Data life cycle diagram by RDMkit / CC BY

Description

This introductory course is aimed at starting PhD candidates, researchers and data stewards in the biomedical sciences who wish to acquire fundamental skills on data management.

In addition to lectures, our workshop includes several hands-on practicals, all following one example research data management scenario.

The course touches upon all stages of data research lifecycle with emphasis on data management planning, data protection and GDPR compliance, research analyses and reproducibility, FAIR principles and data publication.

The course will be held on-site over four mornings from 17 - 20 June 2024.

PhD candidates will be awarded with 1 ECTS upon successful completion of the training.

Detailed Programme

Day 1

Time Topic
08:45 - 09:00 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
09:00 - 09:45 Welcome, tour de table with participants
Reproducibility game
Workshop example scenario
09:45 - 10:30 Research data life cycle and the DMP process
10:30 - 10:40 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
10:40 - 11:30 Practical with Data Stewardship Wizard using the FNR template
11:30 - 12:00 Invited talk - DMP in real life
12:00 - 12:15 Closing session

Day 2

Time Topic
08:45 - 09:00 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
09:00 - 09:45 Data protection requirements for research
09:45 - 10:30 Practical on data protection planning
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
10:45 - 12:00 Practical aspects of data handling, checksums and encryption
Practical with several GUI and command line utilities
12:00 - 12:15 Closing session

Day 3

Time Topic
08:45 - 09:00 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
09:00 - 10:30 Exploratory data analysis and reproducible manuscripts.
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
10:45 - 12:00 Practical on project setup
12:00 - 12:15 Closing session

Day 4

Program Topic
08:45 - 09:00 Coffee with the ELIXIR LU RDM team
09:00 - 09:30 FAIR Principles for research data management
09:30 - 11:00 Data publishing and archival (with coffee break)
11:00 - 12:00 Practical: Paths to data publishing
12:00 - 12:15 Course closing session

Registration

Registration is open with limited places. Therefore, it is confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Instructors

Vilem Ded, Marina Popleteeva, Jenny Tran, Roland Krause, Milena Zizovic, Pinar Alper.

Contact

LCSB data stewards