Research Data Management

© Photo by CC By-NC 2.0 Janneke Staaks

A guide on managing, organising,
sharing and preserving research data

Do you have a question or wish to set up an appointment? Are you looking for hands-on support to prepare your data for publication?
Please contact us: researchdata@graduateinstitute.ch.

The research data team includes people with different skills:

• Guillaume Pasquier from the Library can help with everything related to data management plans, data preservation, metadata, and data sharing.
• Kristina Arseneau of the Research office is the specialist for everything related to ethics and specific grant processes (SNSF, ERC, etc.).
• Céline Vilmen (Library) is our Data Protection Officer and can answer your questions related to legal aspects of data (copyright and personal data).

You can join our "IHEID Data Network" Webex channel to ask for support and share experiences. If this link does not work, just go to Messaging > Public > Explore Public Spaces and hit the "Join" button.

There is also a Community on Zenodo for our posters on open science and research data.

Training @IHEID

Join one of our Research Data Management Workshops! These are usually 45-minute sessions on a specific aspect of research data management, with opportunities for discussions and questions.

Online training and documentation:

• The University of Edinburgh created a free online course called MANTRA. It is highly recommended.
• The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) created a data management expert guide that will complement the one you are currently reading. 
• OpenPlato is the ERC platform for RDM and Open science training.
• The ICPSR also has a Guide to social science data preparation and archiving, which focuses on their platform, but might be useful for all social science researchers.
• The UK Data Service also has an excellent guide.
• You can also check out The Turing Way handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science and its chapter on research data management.

The UK Data Archive has also published a guide titled Managing and sharing research data: best practices for researchers (2011), and later an expanded book on the subject: Managing and sharing research data: a guide to good practice / Louise Corti et al. (Sage, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4462-6725-7.