Digital Data Management for a New Generation

These materials can be used in anthropology graduate research methods courses. They are designed to help instructors in teaching about data management as an integral component of research design and data collection. These materials are geared toward early training in best practices. Such practices ultimately support long-term management—including upload into digital data archives and institutional repositories—and facilitate data sharing where appropriate.

The materials consist of five modules: an introductory module and four modules organized around the four fields of anthropology.

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Project support: National Science Foundation, Workshop Grant 1529315; Jeffrey Mantz, Program Director, Cultural Anthropology

This module includes:

• What are data?
• What is data management?
• What are the advantages of making data accessible?
• What are ethical dimensions of data management?
• What is a data management plan?

General Module. Also available in [PowerPoint] [PDF] [RTF] versions