KristinOct 31
Best day of the year: I got my author copies of “The Data Management Workbook.” It comes out on December 2 from Pelagic Publishing and you can pre-order it now from Pelagic or Amazon.
Show threadDonald HobernOct 31

@briney

Well done! Is the book primarily for researchers or does it reach into the role of repositories and other data infrastructure to support researchers?

And will there be a non-Amazon ebook as well?

Show threadKristin

@dhobern The book focuses on practical things researchers can do to manage their data better, like file naming, discussing data management responsibilities with collaborators, making better passwords, post-project wrap-up, etc. It does talk about repositories, but only from a researcher/user perspective.

Also, I don’t see an ebook yet directly from Pelagic, so Amazon only right now. But I will tell you that the first rough iteration of the book is online: https://caltechlibrary.github.io/RDMworkbook/.

The Research Data Management Workbook

<p>The Research Data Management Workbook is made up of a collection of exercises for researchers to improve their data management.</p>

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Show threadDonald HobernNov 1

@briney

Thanks - I'll take a look. I'm building end-to-end as-FAIR-as-possible data management pipelines for a community that is very mixed (complex file-naming patterns sometimes take the place of other metadata), so I'm interested in good researcher-oriented resources.