CRC 1261 – Research Data Management Guide

This guide is here to help you get started with research data management at CRC 1261. You’ll learn about the tools and services available that can help you manage your research data.

Please be advised that this guide is currently a work in progress. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the individuals listed in the contact section. Additionally, you can also report any issues through the corresponding GitLab project at https://cau-git.rz.uni-kiel.de/CRC-1261/rdm/guide/-/issues.

Note

The Data Management Guide can be collaboratively developed and improved by the CRC community through the use of issues and merge requests in its corresponding GitLab repository.

Getting started

• Introduction
• DFG’s Guidelines
• Research data lifecycle
• Data Management Plan

Storage & Backup

• Overview
• Home Network Drive
• Project Network Drive
• Tape storage (based on Ceph)
• CAU-Cloud Sync & Share

Version management

• Overview
• Recommendations
• GitLab RZ CAU
• GitHub
• Large File Management
• Project template

Repositories

• Overview
• MACAU
• Opendata@uni-kiel

Electronic lab notebook

• Overview
• eLabFTW

Metadata

• Overview

Best practices

• Suggestions for a good README
• File and folder naming
• Date and Time
• Persistent Identifiers

Misc

• Contact
• Changelog