Research Data Management

Organizing your data, Wednesday, February 9, 13:00 (1 pm) - 14:00 (2 pm)

Introduction to Working with Data in Excel, Monday, February 14, 10 am - 12 pm

Introduction to Data Visualization, Tuesday, February 15, 11 am - 12 pm

How to Write a Data Management Plan, Tuesday, February 15, 13:00 (1 pm) - 14:00 (2 pm)

Intermediate Data Analysis in Excel, Wednesday, February 16, 10 am - 12 pm

Demystifying Qualitative Coding, Thursday, February 17, 11 am - 12 pm

Research data management for sensitive data, Wednesday, March 9, 16:00 (4 pm) - 17:00 (5 pm)

Making your data open access, Monday, March 14, 12 pm - 1 pm (13:00)

Publishing data with the McGill Dataverse, Wednesday, March 23, 12 pm - 1 pm (13:00)

Introduction to Research Data Management

• Slides

How to Write a Data Management Plan

• Slides

Organizing Your Data

• Slides

Making Your Data Open Access

• Slides

Research Data Management In Depth

• Slides

Research Data Management for Social Sciences and Humanities

• Slides

Open Science Best Practices: How to Write Your Neuroimaging Data Management Plan in 15 Minutes

• Slides
• Recording

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Recordings of previous training sessions:

Portage is offering a series of webinars on RDM-related topics and training. Recordings of trainings can be found on the CARL youtube channel.

The following Portage webinars offer overviews of specific RDM topics that might be of particular interest:

• Global Water Futures Webinar: (Some) Research Data Management Best Practices!

• An Introduction to the Compute Canada Federation

• Reducing Risk: An Introduction to Survey Data Anonymization

• Beginning with the end in mind (data documentation)

• Research Data Preservation in Canada

• Introduction to FRDR/DFDR

• Support Your Research with DMP Assistant 2.0!

• Support Your Research with Data Management Planning!

Portage has also released French versions of training videos on the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR):

• Qu’est-ce que le DFDR et pourquoi devrais-je l’utiliser?

• Commencer à utiliser le DFDR : Obtenir un compte Globus

• Commencer à utiliser le DFDR : Télécharger et installer Globus Connect Personal

• Commencer à utiliser le DFDR : Télécharger un jeu de données

• Commencer à utiliser le DFDR : Téléverser un jeu de données

Training Modules:

McGill has recently launched a set of self-paced online RDM training modules in MyCourses (McGill log in required).

Portage has also developed an "RDM 101" brief overview course consisting of short modules.

MANTRA is also a free online "course" on RDM, maintained by the University of Edinburgh.