Archiving and Data Management Training and

Information Center

GESIS Cologne

Sergiu GherghinaJune 12, 2012

General Aims• Promotes awareness throughout the

research lifecycle of good research data management practice

• Emphasizes the importance of long-term data curation

• Provides social science researchers and archivists the skills and tools that give enduring life to data: visible, sharable, re-usable data

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Our Objectives• To ensure excellence in the creation,

management, and preservation of research data.

• To promote the adoption of standards in research data management and archiving

• To support data availability, reuse, and the repurposing of archived data.

• To support the production of quality data with wide and multipurpose reuse value

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Our Audiences• Principal investigators who plan data

management and are responsible for oversight• Researchers who implement data management• Individual researchers to maximize the utility

of data• Data archivists responsible for digital curation,

enhancement, and long-term preservation

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Our Activities• Training workshops and consultancy on

data management and archiving topics:- data management planning- best practice on data sharing, consent for

reuse, copyright confidentiality and anonymization etc.

- long-term archiving and preservation, data dissemination and security, licensing data

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