Learning Objectives

Following this assignment students should be able to:

• describe steps necessary to publicly share data
• understand the rewards and costs of data publication

Reading

• Topics

  • What does data sharing long-term really mean?
  • Archiving data best practices

• Readings

  • Best practices for Dryad data packages
  • Troubleshooting Public Data Archiving

Lecture Notes

Data Management Plans: share & discuss

Data archiving & sharing

Flextime / by request

• SQL versus CSV + R
• data structure
• importing data into SQL

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Exercises