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Keeping it tidy: Capturing and Discovering your Data Efficiently - Digital Scholar Series

Keeping it tidy: Capturing and Discovering your Data Efficiently - Digital Scholar Series Online

Taking the right steps at the start of a research project can make all subsequent work much easier. How you collect and capture the information that you need to do your research (your data) is one such step. This session looks at ways to organise what you collect and how to best capture it. We cover subjects from using forms for data capture to file naming and recognising the value of metadata. After this session, you may well see the world in rows and columns.

Related LibGuide: Research Data Management (RDM) by Ya'qub Ebrahim

Date:
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Time:
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Time Zone:
Central Africa Time (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  All  
Categories:
  DLS events > Digital Scholarship Series     DLS events  
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The Digital Library Services (DLS) department of UCT Libraries will be restarting our Digital Scholar Series in the first semester of 2024. We will showcase some of the digital practices and tools available to enhance your research skills, with an ongoing focus on managing your research data efficiently. These sessions are open to all postgraduate researchers and staff working within any field of study at UCT. 

Our primary focus in the first half of the year will be on topics covering the beginning stages of the research process, such as data management plans (DMPs) and best practices for efficiently capturing and managing research data. Topics covered deal with the management of digital materials for research (what some of us call ‘data’) and touch on digital topics throughout the research lifecycle. The webinars are aimed at making your digital scholarship more efficient, so that your data gives you less hassle and you have more time to focus on your teaching, learning and research.  

After registering for an event, you will receive an email with a calendar invite attached. All sessions will start at 1 PM with the topics and dates listed below. The sessions will be hosted on MS Teams and will last 45 minutes, with an extra 15 minutes for questions or discussions. DLS staff will be present to moderate the chat and to help answer your questions as they come up. 

See the full schedule and register.

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