This repository contains educational materials developed by the Research Data Curation Team at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. These resources support best practices for organizing, sharing and reuse data. Materials are listed an alphabetical order.
RDM_CodebookEnglish and French documents providing guidance on how to create effective codebooks for research datasets, and links to tools such as a codebook generator app.
➡️ Codebook generator Web-App
📚 Topics: Metadata, Codebooks, Data Dictionaries, Research Data Management, Data Sharing, RDM
RDM_Organize-DepositA poster-style Quarto document in English and French, illustrating the research data lifecycle, and best practices for making research data understandable, reproducible, and shareable.
📚 Topics: Research Data Management, Reproducibility, Open Science, Data Sharing
RDM_TreeGenEnglish and French documents providing guidance on how to use the file tree generator (TreeGen) for documenting datasets.
📚 Topics: File tree, Research Data Management, Reproducibility, Open Science, Data Sharing
- Explore the html files listed above or
- Install Quarto if not already installed
https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/
- Modify and render the documents to HTML
Example:
quarto render RDM_Codebook_en.qmd
quarto render RDM_Organize-Deposit_en.qmd
Research Data Curation Team
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Email: rdm-gdr@alliancecan.ca
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Research Data Curation Team. (2025). *Research Data Management Materials*.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
https://github.com/Alliance-RDM-GDR/RDM_OnePager