The document provides information about MANTRA, a free online course for research data management created by the University of Edinburgh. MANTRA teaches best practices for managing research data through open educational modules aligned with the research data lifecycle. It is available for reuse and repurposing under an open license. The course covers topics like data planning, organization, documentation, storage, security, and sharing.

1. Research Data
MANTRA Management Training
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra
For more information, email datalib@ed.ac.uk
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Created by the Data Library team of the University of Edinburgh as a result of funding from the JISC Managing Research Data programme, MANTRA is a
free non-credit course that provides guidelines for good practice in research data management. An Open Educational Resource, it is also freely available
through an open licence for re-using, re-branding and re-purposing.
Key
Research data explained Documentation &
= linkages between the modules and the research data lifecycle metadata
What is research data?
Why managing data is Documentation as part of the
important scholarly record
How research data differs from Metadata to describe &
other information facilitate sharing
Plan
Data management plans Storage & security
Discover
Good practice and responsible Secure back-up & storage
research & Reuse Strategies for long term data
Checklists & planning tools security
Funder compliance
Organising data
Create Data protection, rights & access
[under development]
Housekeeping Publish
File versioning Data confidentiality &
Naming & re-naming disclosure
conventions Anonymisation
Formats & Preservation, sharing &
transformation licensing
[under development]
File Formatting Appraise Use
File Compression Licensing & sharing data
File Normalisation Legal & ethical obligations
Formal & informal data sharing
MANTRA and the Research Data Lifecycle