Looking after your data
You’ve invested a lot of time and effort in creating your data, so keep it safe. Learn how to select what to keep and how to store it carefully. Discover why and how to back it up to make sure it’s not lost. Find out how to preserve your data and back-ups, and consider how you can get the most from your data, perhaps through re-use and sharing.
- Storage. Find out what storage options are available to you.
- Back-up. Guidance on how to backup your data.
- Long-Term Storage and Preservation. Guidance and information on looking after your data so that it may be found, understood and used in the future.
- Selection - Choosing What to Keep. Guidance on how to make good decisions about what is really worth keeping and what can be safely disposed.
- Digital Repositories. Find out how to work with a repository to protect, preserve, archive, and share your electronic files indefinitely.
- Data Sharing. Guidance on the best ways to collaborate and share your data.
This cartoon illustrates the value of good data management and provides a few key best practices (produced by Digital Preservation Europe):
- Related Links
- Data Protection and Ethics
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- 'Preparing for your inevitable computer disaster' (GeekGirl's Plain English Computing)
- Recovering Deleted Files [in Windows] (GeekGirl's Plain English Computing)
- Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
- Downloads
- Selecting Data: what to keep, what to bin, why bother? (Fact Sheet)