Organising your Data
Once you create, gather, or start manipulating data and files, they can quickly become disorganised. To save time and prevent errors creeping in later on, you and your colleagues should decide how you will name and structure files and folder. Including documentation (or 'metadata') will allow you to add context to your data so that you and others can understand it in the short, medium, and long-term.
- Naming and Organising files. Advice for keeping your folders and files consistent, clear, and rational, so you can find things and collaborate easily.
- Documentation and Metadata. Guidance on attaching contextual information to your data, ensuring that you can understand them in the future, reproduce results, and share or publish data.
- Managing References. Guidance and tools to help manage references throughout the research process.
- Organising e-mail. Tips for keeping track of important e-mailed information in a world of over-flowing in-boxes, changing e-mail clients, and computer viruses.