Day 11/12
My morning started off at 09:00 in the Blue Lab, Informatoruim, University of Pretoria where we were welcomed and greeted into the session by Dr. Martie van Deventer who introduced the topic Research data management to us. Mrs Van Deventer firstly shared a link with us through clickup, where we found activities for the day. She began the session by explaining that research data is considered property of the University that is generated through proprietary format that can go extinct. Mrs Van Deventer then asked us to create a word file where we are continuously going to write down words that are knew to us and began writing down what research data, research data management and naming convention is, following we had to create an excel file where we began word for the day .
Mrs Van Deventer took 10 minutes explaining to us how to use Excel and had us using naming conventions as means to save our work, before the tea break, she asked us to create an account on DMP online.After the tea break Mrs Van Deventer had a presentation session on the Theory aspect of RDM, this includes explanation on the UP data management policy as a law and the UP data management procedure as linked to the policy and gives indications on how to do things. She further explained the Generic research process also known as the Research cycle,as means to understand the research work flow in which all projects have to go through all the stages , It all starts at the literature review (existing data) and 75% of the time is spent on Scientific workflow and end off after the stage of dissemination and artifacts. She further discussed some of the reasons as to why we manage data, and some of the reasons include:
- To meet publisher
requirements
- To compile with practices
conducted in industry and commerce
- To save
time and resources in the long run
- To increase research efficiency
Mrs also highlighted on the force field analysis of RDM and some of these include: Compliance, Open Access, Data preservation and academic culture among others. She further showed us a video and then write a test afterwords to test our understanding of the video. The Video included information om what is Data research, the difference between a Primary and secondary data, information about datasets, information on metadata etc. After the test Mrs van Deventer had us debating as to where RDM fits in within the library and according to Academics the four categories were established , those being, Cataloguing, Institutional Repositories, Records Management and knowledgement. Mrs Van Deventer then explained the Data life cylce and what Librarians should do, and that is gain acess to disciplinary traiaining , resource and custom made advice among other things. Mrs Van Deventer then went into depth about Metadata, explaining the types of metadata, including Descriptive, structural and administrative metadata, as well as explaining anonymisation, digital preservation,primary and secondary data, and data citation. Immediately after the presentation Mrs Van Deventer had us watch a video where we had to identify errors about the video and write them down. Then we went for an hours break, and coming back from break, we started with practical work with data files, where we had to be in pairs and look through a thesis and say whether the information in should be preserved or not and the answer was yes because the information is not sensitive in any way. We further looked into Qualitative and Quantitative Data representations. In concluding todays session we were paired in groups to do research on either Health service, droughts or housing for the poor, and we searched information on re3data.org and use the DMP on how the data will be managed
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