Online Short-Seminar: Metadata Matters In-Person
To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to add ‘documentation’ or ‘metadata’ (data about data) to the documents and datasets you create.
This virtual session will explore the critical role documentation plays in data management and how you can ensure good documentation throughout your research.
Learning Objectives:
- Define metadata and common types of documentation
- Learn best practices for capturing and creating metadata
- Understand why documenting your research is important
- Find out who to contact for assistance
Instructor: Meghan Kerr, Longwood Medical Area Records Manager/Archivist, Center for the History of Medicine
Contact: Julie Goldman, Research Data Services, Countway Library, julie_goldman@hms.harvard.edu
Please register below to receive the Zoom webinar instructions.
- Date:
- Friday, May 8, 2020
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Countway ONLINE
- Categories:
- Classes Data Management
Need help with data management? Feel free to book a 30 minute meeting slot with me.
Happy to help with data organization, cleaning, and sharing for fostering reproducible workflows and open science!