# Introduction to Research Data Management

- **Type:** Workshop presentation
- **Speakers:** Frédérick Madore, Anke Schürer-Ries and Neeraj Thandayan Viswajith
- **Event:** Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
- **Location:** University of Bayreuth
- **Country:** Germany
- **Date:** 5 November 2026
- **Language:** English
- **Project:** [Digital Research Environment (University of Bayreuth)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/digital-research-environment.md)
- **Tags:** Research Data Management, Data Management Plan, Metadata, FAIR Data, Digital Research Environment, Training
- **Web page:** https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/introduction-research-data-management-bigsas-2026

## Abstract

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.