An important first step in managing your research data is planning. To get you started thinking about data management planning, here are some of the issues you need to consider:
- Institutional and funding agency's expectations and policies
- Copyright and intellectual property issues
- The kind of data collected and its format
- Storage of active data and backup policy and implementation
- Storage and archiving options and requirements
- Organizing and labeling the data
- Data access and sharing
- Privacy, consent, intellectual property, and security issues
- Roles and responsibilities for data management
- Budgeting for data management
