Formats, versions and file names
Resources to manage and organize files, folders and versions of documents. File formats and resources to organize the data.
- Assign descriptive file names. DataONE
- Folder and file naming convention. 10 rules for best practice
- Naming and organising files. University of Cambridge
- Organising data. UK Data Service
- Recommended formats. UK Data Service
Eight tips for a good organization of the files generated during the research:
- Establish conventions for naming files and folders
- Choose a single place to save all files
- Define a hierarchical structure to create folders and files
- Check the version of the files
- Delete obsolete files periodically
- Make backup copies
- Control access to files and encrypt those that are necessary
- Establish a conservation period of the files
More information: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/377584
Metadata
Metadata are data about the data. Metadata helps to understand the data in detail and help other researchers find, use and quote your data correctly.
- Disciplinary metadata. Digital Curation Center UK
- Metadata. Australian National Data Commons
- Metadata. JISC
Personal data
Please refer to the Spanish and European legislation and the procedure for the treatment of personal data in research, development and innovation. UPF information about personal data protection, such as safety measures, are available in the intranet of Protecció de dades de caràcter personal.
Copyright and licenses
- Drets d’autor i llicències. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Research data and legal issues. OpenAIRE
- Licensing Open Data: A Practical Guide. JISC, Research Libraries UK
- How to License Research Data. Digital Curation Center UK
- License selector tool. GitHub
- The State of Open licensing in 2017. Open Knowdledge FoundationBreu resum sobre les llicències per a dades de recerca
Publishing open data
To publish the data of your research project in open access you have different options, subject repositories, institutional repository and other multidisciplinary repositories. If you do not publish in CORA. Repositori de Dades de Recerca (RDR), please let us know (repositori@upf.edu) to link data to related publications. Consult all the information about it.
Fitxer readme.txt
The readme.txt file provides information about the dataset in order to ensure a correct interpretation and reuse of teh data.
You need to create a readme.txt file for each dataset and deposit it along with the rest of the files.
Use and consult the templates (in catalan, spanish and english) created by the Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) to make the readme.txt file.
Storage and security
- Backup your data. DataONE
- Storing your data. UK Data Service
See the Data Management Plan for more information on the procedure for backup copies of each campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Ethical aspects
To request an ethical review of the project, consult the Institutional Committee for Ethical Review of Projects (CIREP-UPF).
Other links of interest:
- Ethics. Online manual. European Commission
- Legal and ethical issues. UK Data archive
Citing data
Guidelines for citing data:
Examples:
Vancouver: Author(s). Title [type]. Institution name / Repository of deposit: Physical location; Year of publication [date accessed]. Available from: Identifier (DOI, Handle)
Example: CompMusic. Beijing Opera Percussion Pattern Dataset [dataset]. Repositori Digital de la UPF: Barcelona; 2016 [citado el 23 abril de 2016]. Disponible en: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25720
Datacite.org: Author(s). (Year). Title. Editor. Version. Identifier (DOI, Handle)
Example: Irino, T., Tada, R. (2009). Chemical and mineral compositions of sediments from ODP Site 127‐797. Geological Institute, University of Tokyo. http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.726855
Force11: Author(s), Year, Title dataset, Repository of deposit, Version, Identifier (DOI, Handle)
Example: Chan, AH, Anderson, K, 2015, X-Ray Diffraction data for: RT52A from E. Coli. PDB COde 5C25, SBGrid Data Bank, v1, http://dx.doi.org/10.15785/SBGRID/168
