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MANTRA Research Data Managment Training

URL 1: https://mantra.ed.ac.uk/

Date Developed: 2014. Source: University of Edinborough, Scotland. Presenter(s): n.a.. Type: Online Course. Level: Intermediate Advanced. Length: Series, various lengths; each unit takes up to one hour, plus time for further reading and carrying out the data handling exercises.

Annotation

MANTRA is a free, online non-assessed course with guidelines to help you understand and reflect on how to manage the digital data you collect throughout your research. Through a series of interactive online units you will learn about terminology, key concepts, and best practice in research data management.

The modules are slide decks with embedded videos, and each contains learning objectives.

Learning Objectives

There are seven online units in this course and one set of offline (downloadable) data handling tutorials that will help you:

1. Understand how data are used in research and in society

2. Create a data management plan and apply it from the start to the finish of your research project

3. Name, organise, and version your data files and code effectively

4. Prepare your files and documentation for submission into a trustworthy repository or archive

5. Know how to store and transport your data safely and securely

6. Understand legal and ethical requirements for managing data about human subjects and how to safeguard sensitive data

7. Know the benefits of sharing data and the FAIR principles; licensing data for re-use

8. Improve your data handling skills in one of four software environments: R, SPSS, NVivo, or ArcGIS

Special Instructions

Each unit takes up to one hour, plus time for further reading and carrying out the data handling exercises. In the units you will find explanations, descriptions, examples, exercises, and video clips in which academics, PhD students and others talk about the challenges of managing research data. The data handling tutorials (the orange button) assume some experience with each software environment and provide exercises in PDF along with open datasets to download and work through using your own installed software.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UE8MC25742; MCH Navigator for $225,000/year. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.