Research Data Management

Research Data Management at UC Merced

We can assist you in all phases of the research data lifecycle from data management plan requirement (for some funding agencies) through file organization and metadata selection to data sharing and archiving.

Events:

• Upcoming:
• Grant Writing Institute: Data Management
• Past Trainings/Workshops:
• Research Week 2013
• CDL Presentations:
• DMPTool - Data Management Planning Tool
• EZID - Data Citation Made Easy
• DataUP - Helping Manage and Archive Data
• UC Berkeley Presentation:
• ResearchHub - Collaboration Tool
• SDSC Presentations:
• Overview of High Performance Computing and Storage Services
• High Performance Computing
• Cloud Storage
• Metadata - Data about your data
• Data Management Best Practices
• Data Survey (1/2011) - sent to all researchers gathering information about data management needs on campus

Services:

• Data Management Plan assistance for grants
• Data management consulting:
• Where do I store my data?
• What metadata format should I use?
• What are my data management options?

Access to Resources:

• Research computing at SDSC
• Data storage at SDSC and UC Merced
• Data sharing
• Digital Object Identifiers - EZID
• Collaboration tools: UC Berkeley ResearchHub
  

Contact:

• Susan Borda - sborda@ucmerced.edu

*Research data lifecycle image from U of Virginia