RDM training

Why are research data management (RDM) skills valuable to researchers?

• Skills and knowledge related to RDM are the precondition for ensuring the quality of data, the documentation, preservation and reuse of data.
• RDM skills are needed especially in the beginning of research process when writing data management plans to fulfil the funders’ requirements.
• Before the data gathering phase begins, it’s imperative that all the permissions and licenses are in order.
• Furthermore, when opening the data, RDM know-how is needed.

Aalto University provides RDM and open science training 

Training in Spring 2021

Training calendar: Click here to see the calendar or Add calendar to your own calendar (.ics file)

Please note: There will be separate training sessions on how to write data management plans (DMPs) for Academy of Finland. See also short video tutorial on DMP by CSC IT Centre for Science.

Research Data Management:

1. How to make your research/code reproducible | 2.3.2021 at 2-3.30 PM | Recording (for Aalto users)
2. Introduction to research data management | 11.3.2021 at 10-11 AM |  Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
3. How to store research data | 18.3.2021 at 10-11 AM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
4. Handling of personal data | 25.3.2021 at 10-11.30 AM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
5. Working with restricted datasets | 15.4.2021 at 10-11 AM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
6. Responsible conduct of research, questionable research practices... and possible cures | 28.4.2021 at 10-11 AM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)

Data Anonymization:

1. Hands-on data anonymization workshops | 12., 15., 19., and 22.4.2021 | More information and registration

Open Science and Research:

1. How to share research data through a repository: A Zenodo example | 15.3.2021 at 1-2 PM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
2. The Open Data Directive and research data licensing |  22.3.2021 at 1-2 PM |  Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
3. What's new in publishing? | 30.3.2021 at 1-2 PM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)
4. Let's get this metadata right! Maximise the reuse, findability and citation of your dataset | 21.4.2021 at 1-2 PM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)

Digital skills:

1. Winter Kickstart course by Aalto Science IT: Part 1: Introduction to Aalto data analysis strategies and basics of Linux shell (Science IT) | 29.1.2021 at 12-3 PM (Materials) and Part 2: Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) with the Triton computing cluster | 1.-2.2021 at 12-3 PM (Materials) | Recordings on Youtube

2. Making your software useful | 7.4.2021 at 12-1 PM | Enrollment (Aalto staff) / Enrollment (Aalto students)

Please contact [email protected]

• If you need information or wish to suggest a topic for future RDM training
• If you are interested in face-to-face consultations (individual researchers or research groups)
• If you are interested in ordering a training/workshop on RDM and open science (e.g. for a department, research group, project, doctoral students).

Other tools

 ACRIS - Information on open access publications are collected in ACRIS. ACRIS is also the metadata catalogue of Aalto's research data.

Visual Resource Centre (VRC) - The VRC service helps to find and use high quality, authentic and current visual information sources from a variety of subjects. The VRC offers free visual resources training open for all Aalto University students, researchers and staff including advice on image copyright issues and Creative Commons licenses.

Research identification, e.g. ORCID - Researcher identifiers aim to lessen the problems caused by ambiguity in researcher names. Aalto University recommends ORCID identifier for every researcher.

Learning resources

Handbooks

The handbook discusses the most important themes of open science and research.

• Data management guidelines (Tietoarkiston aineistonhallinnan käsikirja)

The Finnish Social Science Data Archive guidelines help to understand the RDM related themes from the perspective of the research data life cycle. The guidelines consist of eight themes: the purpose of data management and reuse, data management planning, copyrights, informing research participants, processing quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and storage. Although researchers from all branches of research benefit from the comprehensive guidelines, the researchers who use survey and textual data might benefit most.

• Foster - Open Science Training Handbook

A group of  authors came together in February 2018  to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training. High-quality trainings are fundamental when aiming at a cultural change towards the implementation of Open Science principles. The topics of training range from open concepts and principles to examples and practical guidance.

• CSC Guide to Data management

The guide by CSC IT Centre for Science provides help with the various stages of research data management.

• Service Catalog of the CSC

Suggest new materials to this list

The training materials described above are materials we recommend. Do not hesitate to suggest a new source to the list. We appreciate your help! Please contact [email protected] or acris.aalto.fi.