Do universities provide good data management practices?
Most institutions simply do not provide the education and training resources needed to formally instruct trainees and junior researchers in good data-management practices.
The reader should review the Mentoring Tutorial that is part of this RCR series for more information on the best mentoring practices.
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I. What Are Data?
Data are a collection of facts, measurements, or observations used to make inferences about the world we live in.
Data can range from material created in a wet laboratory, such as an electrophoresis gel or a DNA sequence, to that obtained in social-science research, such as a filled-out questionnaire, videotapes, and photographs.
Data can be micros.
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II. Who Owns Data?
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It may depend on who sponsors the research
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III. What Are Some of The Best Ways to Collect Data?
According to Francis Macrina, surveys show that trainees receive little instruction on the principle of record-keeping in research.
Therefore, for the scientific enterprise to be productive in the long run, there needs to be positive and comprehensive mentoring of students in data management.
Most institutions simply do not provide the education an.
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IV. What Are The Issues in Data Storage and Retention?
The National Institutes of Health require that grant recipients keep all data for three years beyond the time that the final expenditure report of the grant is reported.
But different agencies and academic societies have different requirements, and universities usually make it the principal investigator's responsibility to abide by the rules.
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What are the four aspects of data acquisition & management?
There are generally four matters of data acquisition and management that need to be addressed at the outset of a study:(1) collection, (2) storage; (3) ownership, and 4) sharing. 13 The first two matters—data collection and storage—directly pertain to data integrity.
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What are the four methods of acquiring data?
Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
There are four methods of acquiring data:
- collecting new data; converting/transforming legacy data; sharing/exchanging data; and purchasing data
This includes ,automated collection (e.g., of sensor-derived
data), the manual recording of empirical observations,
and obtaining existing
data from other sources.
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What are the matters of data ownership and sharing?
The matters of data ownership and sharing directly relate to the content of Chapter Three—Collaboration.
Clarifying data ownership and sharing data with others are essential elements to successful research collaboration.
Researchers need to be aware of who owns the data, tissue samples or other materials that they are studying.
Acquisition or collection of clinical trial data can be achieved through various methods that may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: paper or electronic medical records, paper forms completed at a site, interactive voice response systems, local electronic data capture systems, or central web based systems.
