The Pepperdine University Libraries are here to support your efforts in data management by providing the resources to help preserve, document, manage, and publish your data as you travel through the research life-cycle.
In this context, data is described as units of information observed, collected, or created during the course of research. Data typically falls into one of four categories;
Source: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Technical Specification, Part I: Overview, Version 3.0, April 2008, http://www.ddialliance.org.
Planning for data management early on will make curation activities much easier throughout the data lifecycle.
This is not limited to scientific data; it includes social science statistical and ethnographic data, humanities texts, or any other data used or produced in the course of academic research, whether it takes the form of text, numbers, image, audio, video, models, analytic code, etc.
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