Data

RESEARCH MANAGERS

Research data managers play a key role throughout research projects in ensuring that data is usable in the future. They provide guidance to researchers in preparing data for sharing by Providing assistance with the preparation of data management plans Suggesting the use of metadata standards to enable the reuse of data Providing guidance in the use of online tools Identificating the appropriate repository to publish the research outputs Electing the appropriate licenses, considering the type of data involved This section contains answers to the most frequently asked questions posed by research data managers:

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DATA CURATORS

Data curators have a key role in ensuring that data remain understandable and usable in the future. In the absence of a previous data management plan, they are expected to add the necessary metadata to datasets that have none, or almost none, contextualization or description. The main activities endorsed to data curators are related to the data that are going to be published (or they are already published) in data repositories:

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