Documentation, Metadata, Citation

Course Objectives

This course introduces the concepts of documentation and metadata. After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand why documenting your research data is important, and why documentation is important for using others' data.
• Know why and when to use metadata.
• Understand the importance of citing data, and how to do it.
  

Research Data MANTRA [online course, https://mantra.edina.ac.uk/] by the Research Data Service, University of Edinburgh is licensed under a
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