Archive and Data Management Training Center
Laurence Horton, Astrid Recker, Αλεξία Κατσανίδου · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2013
The Archive and Data Management Training Center exists to ensure excellence in the creation, management, and long-term preservation of social science research data. Our aim is to increase data quality and data availability for the benefit of the social sciences. At the center of activities lies the importance of sharing publicly funded research data and meeting funder requirements on data management, preservation, and re-use as well as awareness of good practice in data licensing, documentation and data enhancement, methods of data sharing, file formats, physical and digital data storage, and preservation planning. We offer training and consulting on data management planning for researchers, projects, and centers. Additionally, we provide courses on long-term archiving and preservation, data dissemination and security, licensing data for use, managing access systems, format migration and verification. Our target audiences include (a) principal investigators for research projects who plan the data management and are responsible for its implementation and oversight, (b) individual researchers or researchers who are members of project teams and who actually implement data management procedures, (c) social science and humanities data archivists responsible for digital curation, data enhancement, and long-term preservation.