Chapter 1: The importance of managing and sharing research data
Chapter 2: The research data life-cycle
Chapter 3: Research data management planning
Chapter 4: Documenting and providing context for data
Chapter 5: Formatting, organizing and transforming data
Chapter 6: Storing and moving data
Chapter 7: Legal and ethical issues in sharing data
Chapter 8: Disclosure review and anonymization
Chapter 9: Rights relating to research data
Chapter 10: Making use of existing research data: opportunities and
limitations
Chapter 11: Publishing, promoting and citing data
Chapter 12: Working with big and novel data
Louise Corti is an Associate Director at the UK Data Archive and is
Service Director of Collections Development and Data Publishing,
overseeing the acquisition and ingest of high quality data of
interest to social scientists. Her research activities are focused
around standards and technologies for reviewing, curating and
presenting digital social science data, particularly using open
source infrastructures and tools.
She has led research awards and regularly publishes, edits and
advises internationally on a wide range of issues relating to the
archiving, sharing and reuse of data. In the 90s, Louise helped
establish Qualidata, the world first national qualitative data
archive, pioneering approaches for and solutions to qualitative
data archiving. She has taught sociology, social research methods
and statistics, and spent six years working on the design,
implementation and analysis of the British Household Panel Study at
Essex.
Veerle Van den Eynden manages the Research Data Management team for
the UK Data Service. This team provides expertise, guidance and
training on data management and data sharing to researchers, to
promote good data practices and optimise data sharing. She combines
this with a position as Research Data Manager for the Global
Challenges project Drugs and (Dis)order at the School of Oriental
and African Studies. Veerle has many years of experience
researching interactions between people, plants and the
environment, using a combination of social and natural science
methods, and has experienced first-hand the benefits that data
sharing brings to research.
Libby Bishop is the Coordinator for International Data
Infrastructures in the Data Archive at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for
Social Sciences. She manages connections between GESIS and
international data infrastructures, such as the Consortium of
European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). She is leading a
task in the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Science Cloud
(SSHOC) project on remote access to sensitive data. She publishes
on the methodological and ethical issues of sharing and reusing
data.
Matthew Woollard is Director of the UK Data Archive and the UK Data
Service. He has practical and theoretical experience in all aspects
of data service infrastructure, providing leadership in data
curation, archiving and preservation activities. From 2002–2006 he
was the Head of the History Data Service and from 2006–2010 an
Associate Director and Head of Digital Preservation and Systems at
the UK Data Archive. He currently provides leadership and strategic
direction of the both the UK Data Archive and the ESRC-funded UK
Data Service.
This book is a ‘must have’ for anyone teaching or learning about
this topic. The reader is taken on a journey of discovery and at
the end will be well equipped to manage and share research data in
all aspects.
*Jane Fry*
This book remains an essential guide for researchers and data
professionals concerned with best practice data management.
Accessible. Practical. Comprehensive. This edition has been revised
and updated to address legal changes as well as challenges posed by
new forms of data. This is a trusty companion for novices and
experts alike. Highly recommended.
*Chris Gibson*
Written by experts in the field, this book offers a comprehensive
introduction to key topics in research data management across the
whole research lifecycle. Already established as an indispensable
handbook, this new edition provides up to date case studies,
practical guidance and extensive references. Highly
recommended.
*Wayne Peters*
Data are a major asset of economic and social research, and the
quality and provenance of research datasets fundamentally underpins
the extent to which they can subsequently be shared and reused. The
ESRC is the UK′s largest funder of research on social and economic
issues and has long been at the forefront of promoting the
importance of data sharing.
As the volume and complexity of datasets available to researchers
continues to increase, the importance of data management in the
advancement of economic and social science research becomes ever
more apparent. This book approaches these topics accessibly and
will offer insights to a wide audience, from those at starting to
think about data management to those seeking to refresh their
skills.
*Alison Park*
For CESSDA, as consortium of trusted repositories that offers a
research infrastructure with tools and services for data producers
and data re-users, good data practices throughout the data
lifecycle are deemed essential to facilitate high-quality research
that benefits society.
This book - full of practical guidance and tips, case studies and
examples, and written by longstanding and experienced CESSDA
members - helps to develop the skills of researchers and data
professionals to produce high quality data that are well described,
curated, re-usable and as openly accessible as possible. By
describing the sometimes complex facets of data management in an
easy and clear way, especially with regards the ethical and legal
aspects of sharing and reusing social science data, this book helps
to set researchers on a path to more open science.
*Ron Dekker*
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