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Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences - MOOC 2018 edition


Module 3: Data Management

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences


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Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences


Module 6

Marine scientist are usually evaluated by their scientific communication productivity. It is fundamental for getting PhDs, grants, projects and jobs.  Scientific Communication is the output that normally leads to a formal publication of the results, findings, observations and views arising from a scientist’s research project. Most often, the official results are published in the form of printed materials, such as academic journals. Verbal communication channels, such as personal contacts with colleagues and teachers, seminars, workshops, lectures, and conferences, are also vital to the exchange of information among scientists. These types of communications work toward the advancement of the various scientific disciplines. In this Module we address those formal channels of communication…

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences


MOOC 2018 edition Module 1: Project Management

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences - MOOC 2018 edition


Module 2: Data Management

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences


Module 3: Scientific Communication

The course will provide comprehensive training in research data management in order to lay the foundations for a common approach for research data management amongst researchers, repositories and facilities (including libraries) that manage marine data, thereby helping to ensure that the data is accessible, standardized and maintained over time.

Basic scientific research requires sound data management practices to support the collection and curation of data to encourage data sharing using internationally agreed rules of data exchange, and to facilitate data discovery and use in the long term. Research Data Management (RDM) covers the planning, creating, storing, organizing, accessing, sharing, describing, publishing and curating of data. RDM is mandated by many funding agencies and increasingly by governments to provide access to funded research results. The management of data, particularly large-scale data, has many challenges, and the roles of researchers, facilities that manage marine data, repositories and libraries are coming together to provide access, preservation and archive of this data and the scholarly products associa…