Planning and Design

• Refer to the UCT Research Data Policy
• Sign up on https://dmp.lib.uct.ac.za to create your research data management plan (add your supervisor)
• Tutorial on the Data Management Plan Tool: https://osf.io/pqdj6

Collect, Generate and Store

• Common raw data storage area - registered postgraduate students will soon be granted access to common cloud-based data storage

• We are building an interface to support classification of data and definition of metadata at time of storage

• Coming soon: Guide being developed on naming, versioning, embedded documentation and control and purging of data no longer in use to manage resources, metadata elements to adhere to international and metadata standards

Clean, Analyse & Visualise

• Process your research data:

• R, Python, etc.

• Openrefine for drilling into large datasets: https://openrefine.org

• Tableu, Matlab, d3.js etc.

• Other tools

Manage, Store and Preserve

Coming soon: A guide on data storage, data retention and archiving of data in the operational area.

Share and Publish

• Data Curation, Data Citation, Data Use Agreements, DOI's

• Final research data should be published on ZivaHub: https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/EBE

• Define embago period on datasets if this is applicable.

• Guide on using Figshare platform: https://help.figshare.com/article/how-to-upload-and-publish-yourdata

Discover, Reuse & Cite

• Publishing your data allows other researchers to discover your work, reuse your datasets and cite your work.

• Importance of citing data: https://datacite.org/cite-your-data.html

• How to cite datasets: https://www.dcc.ac.uk/guidance/howguides/cite-datasets