I am beyond thrilled to share with you my third book, The Research Data Management Workbook. This book is free and openly licensed (CC BY-NC), available both online and as a PDF or EPUB download. Here’s the citation: Briney, K. … Continue reading
Category: dataStorage
The Art of Discarding
I’m in the process of spring cleaning my house and am getting lots of inspiration from Marie Kondo’s “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Her big message is that to truly achieve an organized home, one must discard all … Continue reading →
Video: The 3-2-1 Rule
One of the things I love about running this blog is that it lets me flesh out ideas that I can then turn into other awesome things. Case in point is this post on the Rule of 3 that I … Continue reading →
Cloud Backup
I’m going to come right out and say that Dropbox is not a sufficient backup. If all you have are files in a Dropbox folder that are synced to the cloud, you should not consider your files to be backed … Continue reading →
Test Your Backups
A lot of data management is about risk prevention and near the top of that list is having a good backup system (or two). But what I want to talk about today is that it’s not enough to have a … Continue reading →
Wrapping Up A Project
Data managers talk a lot about doing data management before your project starts, but there is another important point in a project that is critical to data management: when a project ends. My recent post on managing thesis data got … Continue reading →