Managing your research data

How do you store your research data? And what happens to it when you move on? The Soil CRC’s ‘Improving soil data management’ project is helping Soil CRC researchers and PhD students develop a cohesive understanding of best practice data management and why it’s so important.

Led by researchers at Federation University Australia, the project is enabling better data management by uncovering available soil data and developing solutions for improved data capture, storage and reuse.

Project team member Jude Channon (Federation University Australia) outlined the importance of research data management in a recent Soil CRC webinar for our participants. Jude believes all researchers want to do the right thing with their data, but they need the processes and tools that enable them to do so.

“Data management relies on people, processes and tools, so it’s critical that we have the right equipment and knowledge to be able to capture, analyse, aggregate, store and share our data effectively,” she said.

“Our research project is developing a fit-for-purpose approach to better manage data for future Soil CRC projects and delivering solutions for improved sharing and reuse of national soils data.”

An overview of Jude’s research data management session is now publicly available for anyone with an interest in research data management.

Watch the overview video to learn more about:

• the research data management life cycle
• why we need research data management
• data storage
• metadata records
• data sharing and publishing.

This project is a collaboration with researchers from Federation University, Charles Sturt University and the University of Tasmania, and industry partners from Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research New Zealand and NSW Department of Primary Industries.

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