Organizing Data, File Naming & Formatting

Creating well-structured filenames and using non-proprietary file formats is a foundational, best practice step to ensuring your research is organized, navigable, and reproducible.

UBC Library provides practical examples, exercises, and workshops for file naming, file formats, directory structures and much more, through its Data Bites series of workshops. Visit the workshops section of this site for upcoming offerings.

Training & Workshops

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Resources

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Data Bites GitHub workshopsAsynchronous materials for UBC Library's short series addressing best practices in file management to support RDM.
 

UBC's RDM STRATEGY

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DATA MANAGEMENT PLANS

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TRAINING & WORKSHOPS 

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC's two main campuses are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwmə0– kwəyˇəm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, and that UBC’s activities take place on Indigenous lands throughout British Columbia and beyond.

Research Data Management @ UBC

UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan
UBC Library | Office of the Chief Information Officer | Vice-President, Research and Innovation,
Website rdm.ubc.ca

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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