Day 4 - Research Data Management (RDM)

Day 4 - Research Data Management (RDM)

Today we finished off with digitisation, mainly combining the digitised documents and combining them with Adobe Acrobat, and started out with Research Data Management.

The day started out with us finishing off the clean-up processes that we were still busy with yesterday. After that we were taught the basics of Adobe Acrobat and how to combine multiple digitised documents into one PDF file. We then had to edit and change the bookmarks of the PDF to be accurate and informative as well as adding a watermark to the PDF. Lastly we used the OCR tool of Adobe Acrobat to scan through the pd in order to recognize the words and characters in the document. This aids in the restoration process by restoring the words to the file and changing it from a high quality picture to a PDF that contains actual text and words. This allows users of the newly digitised document to preform searches like they would on a normal PDF or word document.

After lunch we started with Research Data Management. We had a lecture on the importance of RDM and why and how it is used in the industry. We were taught the importance of file naming and version control along with the ethics of gathering personal and sensitive information about people. We also did a brief exercise on qualitative data, data that requires intuition to gather usable information, and how to create Data Management Plan on dmponline. We were taught how important a DMP is and why it is needed before a person can start gathering and managing the data.

All in all, today was an eventful and informative day. I look forward to continue with RDM tomorrow as we will be doing quantitative data management, which is data that you can do calculations on.