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MANTRA: Free, Online Course on How to Manage Digital Data

Research Data MANTRA is a free, online course with guidelines on how to manage the data you collect throughout your research. The course is particularly appropriate for those who work or are planning to work with digital data.

Once you have finalized the course, you will:

Be aware of the risk of data loss and data protection requirements.  Know how to store and transport your data safely and securely (backup and encryption). 

Have experience in using data in software packages such as R, SPSS, NVivo, or ArcGIS.
Recognise the importance of good research data management practice in your own context.
Be able to devise a research data management plan and apply it throughout the projects life.
Be able to organise and document your data efficiently during the course of your project.
Understand the benefits of sharing data and how to do it legally and ethically.
MANTRA set-up
The course contains the following eight units of aproximately an hour:

Research data explained
Data Management plans
Organising data
File formats and transformations
Documentation & metadata
Storage & security
Data protection, rights & access

Sharing, preservation & licensing
And four software practicals: R, SPSS, NVivo, and ArcGIS.

The units contain explanations, descriptions, examples, exercises, and video clips in which academics, PhD students and others talk about the challenges of managing research data.

MANTRA is maintained by Data Library staff in Information Services, University of Edinburgh.
(source:post created by sarah dister)

click on the link for more information:
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

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Permalink Reply by Lopamudra Sarkar on October 15, 2013 at 19:16
how could I register for course because registration option is not showing
Permalink Reply by Lopamudra Sarkar on October 15, 2013 at 20:07
please let me know the procedure of registration of this course
Permalink Reply by jayshrimondal on October 17, 2013 at 14:42

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Permalink Reply by Chhavinder Sharma on October 15, 2013 at 21:11

Thanks for valuable information, but the link is not opening.

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How can I register my self.................

Permalink Reply by brahma goel on October 16, 2013 at 21:59

i want to reg this course please tell me       thanks

Permalink Reply by Chhavinder Sharma on October 16, 2013 at 22:47

Ma,am,

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Permalink Reply by jayshrimondal on October 17, 2013 at 14:44

sir, there is no reason for your anxiety and confusion this link is available please try again.

Permalink Reply by Siddu on March 12, 2014 at 22:45

Thanks for sharing such a invaluable piece of information with all the professionals

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