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Data Management In The Lab
Lynn YarmeyNational Snow and Ice Data Center
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Overview
•Why are lab Data Management policies important?
•Common Language – Data Stages•Lab policies you should have (and be using)•File Naming•Versioning
•Infrastructure practices
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Lab Data Management Policies
• Reduce confusion, lost work when students graduate
• Reduce ramp-up time for new students or lab staff
• Help easily re-create figures from old papers, etc.
• Help all members of a lab quickly find critical data
• Increase awareness of Data Management issues
• Are a great start towards metadata creation and meeting NSF requirements
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• Raw
• Organized
• Standardized• Transformed
• Processed• Quality Controlled
• Analyzed
• Summarized
• Presented/Published
•Archived
Data Stages
Use data stages as acommon foundation
for lab policies and practices
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• Raw
• Organized
• Standardized• Transformed
• Processed• Quality Controlled
• Analyzed
• Summarized
• Presented/Published
•Archived
Data Stages
Does everyone in yourlab understand and agree on what these
terms mean?
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For more info - https://www.dataone.org/content/assign-descriptive-file-names
Make file names unique! Include (as appropriate): - Project name or acronym - Study title - Location - Data type - Researcher initials - Date (YYYYMMDD for easy sorting) - Data stage (see previous slides) - Version number - File type
DO – Use underscores or dashes. DO NOT – Use spaces or special chars.
WRITE DOWN conventions for your lab and save to a shared space.
File Naming Conventions Done Right
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- Communicate with your lab/research group and agree on
a file naming convention that includes a versioning system.
- WRITE IT DOWN and save to a shared space.
- Communicate with your lab/research group and agree on
a file naming convention that includes a versioning system.
- WRITE IT DOWN and save to a shared space.
Versioning
• A very personal practice
• But lab policies can help• Version at each data stage• Common version identification
ex. ‘x.y’ = ‘major.minor’
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Infrastructure Practices
• Again, often very personal
• Again too - lab policies can help• Agreed-upon file organization framework• Submitting data to lab infrastructure at each stage using common file naming conventions
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References and Resources
•DataOne Resources
•DataOne File Naming Guide
•Versioning Guidelines (for software but also apply to data, documentation, etc)
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Other Relevant Modules
•Documentation and Metadata section•Data Management Plans section
