UCI Library Data Management & Curation Training

Research data comes in many shapes and sizes. Kick off your research data journey and start sharing your stories.

Getting started is for you if you are just beginning to learn about research data
Learn more is if you know a bit but want to know more
Challenge me is often more technical or assumes that you are familiar with at least the basics of managing and wrangling research data.

Do I have to do them all? No - you can pick'n'mix a different stream each week, or stay in one stream. See what Thing 1 has in store for you!

We wish to acknowledge Helene Blowers who created the original 23 Things (2006) and Michael Witt who developed 23 Things: Libraries for Research data (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (2015), the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who created their 23 (research data) Things (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. program in 2016, and the UCSD Libraries' 23 (Research Data) Things (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. which they shared at the CA Data librarians meeting. This version is based primarily on the ANDS version and some on the UCSD Libraries version with original content included.

Week 1: Ready, set, data - Build your knowledge of key concepts and issues in research data management. (Due 10/15)
    Thing 1: Getting started with research data
    Thing 2: Issues in research data management
    Thing 3: Data in the research lifecycle
Week 2: Repositories for data - learn about repositories for depositing, managing and discovering research data. (Due 10/22)
    Thing 4: Data discovery
    Thing 5: Data sharing
    Thing 6: Long-lived data: curation & preservation
Week 3: Data citation & impact - extract value from research data, data citation, impact and metrics. (Due 10/29)
    Thing 7: Data citation for access & attribution
    Thing 8: Citation metrics for data
Week 4: Rights, ethics & sensitive data - learn about responsible sharing and reuse, and the importance of licensing research data. (Due 11/5)
    Thing 9: Licensing data for reuse
    Thing 10: Sharing sensitive data
Week 5: Metadata & more - resource description, controlled vocabularies, linked data and crosswalks. (Due 11/12)
    Thing 11: What's my meta-data schema?
    Thing 12: Vocabularies for data description
    Thing 13: Walk the crosswalk
    Thing 14: Identifiers and linked data
Week 6: Let's talk data! - start a data conversation: data interviews and data management plans. Data stories from publishers and research funders. (Due 11/19)
    Thing 15: Data management plans
    Thing 16: What are publishers & funders saying about data?
    Thing 17: Data literacy & outreach
    Thing 18: Data interviews: talk the talk
Week 7: Hands on with data & tools - delve into domain specific data and use software tools for research data. Challenge yourself to try something new! (Due 11/26)
    Thing 19: Exploring APIs and apps
    Thing 20: Find it with data!
    Thing 21: Tools of the trade
Week 8: Data communities - who's who is the research data management zoo? Connecting with colleagues and continuing to learn. (Due 12/3)
    Thing 22: Humanities data
    Thing 23: Data in the arts
    Thing 24: Making connections