NC State University Libraries: Data Management Help

NC State Libraries' staff can provide guidance regarding a broad range of data management issues to help you devise research workflows and strategies that both fulfill funder requirements and make your research more reproducible.

Staff can help you:

• understand what goes into a Data Management and Sharing Plan,
• navigate the different requirements for various federal funding agencies, and
• draft and implement your own DMSP.

Although in-depth consultation on the development of project-specific metadata schema is currently out of scope for the Libraries, staff can provide general recommendations regarding metadata standards, best practices for describing your dataset, and creating appropriate dataset documentation.

Additionally, Libraries staff can provide consultation on:

• documenting data types
• standards for data description
• short-term storage
• long-term preservation
• sharing and access considerations
• policies for re-use and re-distribution
• defining responsibilities for carrying out the data management plan
• finding an appropriate repository

Staff can review a draft DMSP and provide written feedback before you submit your grant application.