Data management strategies

Data management strategy

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Common and consistent procedures within group

Strategy should be documented

Down to folder and data naming principles

Naming principles

Naming should comprises of semantic units

Consistent separaration between and in semantic units

Example

Between _
In -

Dates: YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD

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Folder structures

Restrict number of hierarchies and folders in one hierarchy

One idea:

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├── bibliography
│   └── bibliography.bib
├── journaling
├── pictures
│   ├── README.txt
│   └── source
│       ├── processed
│       └── raw
├── publication
└── README.txt

Research data and other data

Keep research data apart from other data, i.e. for administration

Research data require different post-processing

ten years archiving
other data protection requirements

Security copies

3-2-1 rule

Three copies on
two different system architectures with at least
one other location

For example:

Group share → replication on another share → backup on an S3 storage

Local disc → copy on revolving mobile disc → second mobile disc in a different building (for environment without network connection)

Making backup copies is not archiving