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*International Conference on Transformative Libraries and the Digital Future – ICTLDF 2026* at ONLINE
August 20, 2026 at 10pm to August 21, 2026 at 7pm
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.
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click on the link for more information:
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/
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Permalink Reply by Prahalad P. on
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Thank you Madam SPSS and other software package is very useful for research persons and others.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. N K Pachauri on
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thank you
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Permalink Reply by avinash singh thakur on
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thank full dear jaishree je.
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Permalink Reply by Navnit Patel on
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thank you
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