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Data Management Guides

Best practices for data management

  1. Overview of digital project organization and documentation
  2. Reproducible data management
  3. Catalog the structure and content of your data in a data dictionary
  4. Forecasting data preservation costs

File formats

  1. Recommended file formats for digital preservation
  2. How the Library of Congress evaluates the sustainability of digital file formats

Metadata standards

  1. Metadata standards catalog (Research Data Alliance)
  2. Disciplinary metadata standards (Digital Curation Centre)
  3. Metadata schema (DataCite)
  4. Tools for working with metadata (Data Documentation Initiative)

Guidance for specific granting agencies

National Institutes of Health [NIH]

  1. Writing a Data Management and Sharing Plan

National Science Foundation [NSF]

  1. Preparing Your Data Management and Sharing Plan
  2. How to fill out the Data Management and Sharing Plan form hosted on Research.gov
  3. Research.gov hosts a demo site where you can try out the grant application forms without submitting a real grant.

Working with sensitive data

  1. Transparency in qualitative research
  2. Collecting and managing human subjects data
  3. Cryptographic right answers (for software developers)
  4. Cryptographic right answers (for end users)

Indigenous data governance

  1. CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
  2. Native Nations Institute