Data Management

General Topics

• DRAFT of C2SM Data Management Recommendations (pdf) (June 3rd 2020)
• Past C2SM Data Management workshops: Presentations as pdf's
• Data Management Plans: Examples, links to ETH and SNF instructions
• ERA-5 Data: Attempt to coordinate ERA-5 data within C2SM, overview of who has what data
• C2SM Task Force on Data Management: Further info, task force members

ETH Links

• Research Data at ETH Zurich
• New Guidelines for Research Data Management PDF
• Forschungsdatenmanagement und Datenerhalt
• ETH Guidelines for Research Integrity
• ETH Research Collection
• Add your ORCID ID to your ETH account

ETH Contacts

• DMPs: Digital Curation Office, ETH Library, ETH Zurich, ETH Digital Curation Webpage
• Research Collection: Barbara Hirschmann, ETH Research Collection, ETH Library, ETH Zurich, ETH Research Collection Webpage
• openBIS software: Dr. Caterina Barillari, ETH SIS, ETH Personal Page

Various resources

Best practice guides

• NCAR/CESM: http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/management/docs/data.mgt.plan.2011.pdf
• MPI: https://mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/publikationen/Volltexte_diverse/Good_Scientific_Practice.pdf

FAIR

• FAIR principles
• SNF explanations on FAIR principles

Data repositories

• Directory of data repositories
• ETH research collection
• Zenodo
• IAC data pool
• IAC gitlab

Open access journals

• Directory of open access journals
• Check specific journal access policy

Funding agencies open access policies

• Open research data @SNSF
• Check specific funder archiving mandates

Licensing

• Advices on how to license research data
• Creative commons licenses
• Open data commons licenses
• GNU licenses
• Open definition for data
• Creative commons and open science
• Copyleft definition
• Why avoiding non-commercial licenses?
• Advices on how to cite datasets
• SPDX (standard for easy sofware licensing)

Help on improving NetCDF metadata

• IAC internal documentation on NetCDF in general (with IAC login only)
• Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions
• online CF checker
• Python CF checker
• CMIP6 controlled vocabularies