Introduction to Research Data Management

This session introduced doctoral researchers at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) to research data management. It set out four goals: to gain a better understanding of research data management across the data life cycle; to understand how a data management plan (DMP) works, with a hands-on exercise in filling one in; to learn how to organise research data through folder structures and file-naming conventions; and to see why metadata matters for finding, interpreting and reusing data.