CRC 1461 – Research Data Management Guide

This guide is here to help you get started with research data management at CRC 1461. 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.

Getting started

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

Project dataset

• Overview
• Usage and Conditions
• Datasets

Storage & Backup

• Overview
• Home network drive
• Project network drive
• Tape storage
• CAU-Cloud Sync & Share

Version management

• Overview
• Recommendations
• GitLab RZ CAU
• GitHub

Repositories

• Overview
• MACAU
• Opendata@uni-kiel

Electronic lab notebook

• Overview
• eLabFTW
• JupyterHub

Metadata

• Overview

Best practices

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

Misc

• Contact