Title: Module 5: Assignments
Course: Teaching Open Science and Research Data Management for Undergraduates > Section: Module 5: Research Data Management in Practice

1. Does your institution have a data policy? What does it say? Is it helpful? Share your experience and discuss with your peers.

2. Try to find a data repository for your own data or in general, for data of your field of science.

a) What would be the data repository and why?
b) What persistent identifier would you get from the repository and what license do they recommend or give to the data?

3. Which of the following options are in line with the FAIR principles? Explain why.

A. Researcher XYZ publishes his/her research data:
a) in a trustworthy data repository that is well known by her research community
b) on his/her own website
c) on Zenodo

B. Researcher XYZ wants to share his/her research data on request. He/She…
a) saves it on a USB stick, protects it with a password, and gives this stick to interested people he/she trusts
b) provides metadata and contact details in a data repository, the files are not visible and not accessible

C. Researcher XYZ saves research data…
a) together with his/her contact details to provide further information on the data production, used abbreviations etc.
b) together with a README file that contains all information required to understand and reuse the data

D. Researcher XYZ publishes spreadsheets in…
a) csv format
b) xls format
c) xlsx format
d) only as pdf

4. Find your home organisation guidance for writing a data management plan (DMP). What DMP-tool does your organisation recommend?

5. Why should data management be seen more as a process than just a planning document?