Data

Data Bites - Best Practices for Creating a README file

January 17, 2024, 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Presenter: Billie Hu, Eugene Barsky
Location: Online

Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it.

https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3779169

  • Data
  • Digital Scholarship
  • Research Commons
  • Research Data Management

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Research Data Management @ UBC

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