Data Documentation and Management Workshop
Wiener Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Dokumentation und Methodik (WISDOM)
Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 April 2010
Vienna, Austria
This event is a workshop for doctoral students in the social sciences about data documentation and data management. It
explains how data can be properly managed from the beginning of a study. The importance and benefits of good data management
will be discussed. Topics covered will include the data lifecycle, research ethics (consent, anonymisation and confidentiality),
data formats (transcription, metadata), data security and data management planning. Each topic will include both presentations
and practical, hands-on exercises.
Each day will follow a similar structure in which initial sessions will be presentations from UK Data Archive staff. These
will be followed by an interactive exercise, such as small group work, case studies, or focused feedback on participants'
projects, depending on the context of the previous presentation.
PROGRAMME - Day 1
| 9.00-11.00 |
The data lifecycle and benefits of proper data management
Introductions
Data lifecycle - proper management of data throughout the lifecycle
- Creation
- Analysis
- Publication and dissemination
- Preparation for archiving, re-use and preservation
Benefits of proper data management (part 1)
- For researchers: meeting EU and national data sharing mandates
Data lifecycle exercise
Application of the data lifecycle to participants' projects
|
| 11.00-11.30 |
Break
|
| 11.30-12.30 |
Research ethics and data confidentiality: consent
- Personal, confidential and sensitive personal data
- Informed consent and data sharing
- Written or verbal consent
- One-off or process consent
|
| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch
|
| 13.30-14.30 |
Consent exercise
- Review of examples of consent forms
- Drafting consent forms for different purposes
- Research without consent
|
| 14.30-15.00 |
Research ethics and data confidentiality: data anonymisation
- Anonymising data
- Access control - its role, with consent and anonymisation, in enabling sharing
- Copyright
|
| 15.00-15.30 |
Break
|
| 15.30-17.00 |
Anonymisation exercise
Exercises on anonymisation of qualitative and quantitative data
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PROGRAMME - Day 2
| 9.00-11.00 |
Documentation and transcription
Data documentation and metadata
- Data documentation
- Context for qualitative data
- Metadata
Transcription - purposes, formats, templates
Documentation and transcription exercise
Assessing various examples of documentation and transcription
|
| 11.00-11.30 |
Break
|
| 11.30-12.20 |
Data formats and security
Data formats and software
- Formats and conversions
- Data quality control
- Software
- Version control and file naming
- Organising data
- Digitisation, scanning and OCR
- Use of qualitative data in CAQDAS
Data storage, back-up and security
- Making back-ups
- Data storage
- Data security
- Encrypting data for transmission
|
| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch
|
| 13.30-14.00 |
Data management planning
Data management plans: What are they? What benefits do they offer? How to choose from various models?
|
| 14.00-15.00 |
Data management plan exercise
Participants to begin drafting data management plans for their own projects
|
| 15.00-15.30 |
Break
|
| 15.30-16.30 |
Data management plan exercise (continued)
|
| 16.30-17.00 |
Benefits of proper data management (part 2 - continued from first day)
|
| 17.00 |
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