Documenting your data
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See also:
- What is a data management plan
- Funder requirements
- Data management plan tools & examples
- Pre-registration
- Find data
- Collect data ethically
- Research with Indigenous communities
- File formats
- File naming, organization, versioning
- Document & describe
- Storage & backup
- Analyze & visualize data
- Prepare data for archiving, sharing
- Where to share data
- Data licenses
- Cite data
- Resources
Tools to document my data
Creating standardized metadata can be difficult and time consuming. There are tools that can help. Some help you select controlled vocabularies to include in your documentation. Others help you complete the metadata schema.
Use this comparison chart, created by Stanford, to select the tool that is right for you
