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Acknowledgements
The course creators would like to thank our funder, the JISC Managing Research Data Programme, and everyone who helped out with the MANTRA project, particularly the Graduate School contacts in the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science, School of GeoSciences and the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and the video interviewees from the University of Edinburgh.
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MANTRA course website
Editor: Robin Rice
Graphic design: Jackie Clark, EDINA
Banner images
backlit buddha by .ash on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashclements/62704073/.
Tibetan mandala by Wonderlane on Flickr (CC-BY).
Online module content creators
Lead Editor: Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu, Editor: Anne Donnelly
Video Editor: Andy Pryde, Information Services, University of Edinburgh
Introduction to the course
Author: Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu
Research data explained
Author: Stuart Macdonald
Data slide by bionicteaching on Flickr, (CC-BY-NC 2.0) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2920562020/.
Video featuring Ellie Bates created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJrlS4fMNY.
Video featuring Prof John McInnes created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8lonzDwYsQ.
Video featuring Prof John McInnes created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlQMVV7VJtA.
Life in the Field: Yucatan Peninsula Geology, by Geoconnect on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYT4gd7Tq-0&NR=1,
Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
Image by Conor Lawless on Flickr (CC-BY-2.0) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/conchur/348071400/.
Data management plans
Author: Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu
Video featuring Prof Jeff Haywood created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXr14Urf268.
Video featuring Prof Lynn Jamieson created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IN_SD5B43U.
Research lifecycle diagram used with permission to publish as CC-BY, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx.
Research data lifecycle diagram (adapted from the original: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle) used with permission to publish as CC-BY.
Preparing data management plans for NSF grant applications, by Jeffloo10 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc82pxxRkMo
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My data management plan - a satire by Dr. C Titus Brown, used with permission to publish as CC-BY, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/may-10/data-management.html
Video featuring Ellie Bates created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stLmJUO81A.
Templates developed by the DataTrain project at the University of Cambridge, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/datatrain/documents.html. Used with permission to publish as CC-BY.
Organising data
Author: Stuart Macdonald
Video featuring Prof. Jeff Haywood created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jcOJOFUZg.
Writing your data management plan by ESIPFed on Vimeo (CC-BY-3.0).
Utterz Naming Conventions by Jannie-Jan on Flickr (CC-BY-2.0), http://www.flickr.com/photos/fauxpress/2225866394/.
1WEIBD_slide9 by Mónica, M on Flickr (CC-BY-2.0), http://www.flickr.com/photos/monica_andre/23567335/.
Versioning by Syafiq Irsyadi on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), http://www.flickr.com/photos/irsyadi/5265978804/.
Versioning and Extensibility derived from Flickr image by psd (CC-BY-2.0), http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3288055274/.
File formats & transformation
Author: Robin Rice
Image by Psychemedia on Flickr (CC-BY).
Binary, by Xerones on Flickr (CC-BY-NC).
Sony Walkman, by splorp on Flickr (CC-BY-NC-ND).
Zipper, by mistercam on Flickr (CC-BY-NC-ND).
letter-fall3d and Digital image, both by DaveBleasdale on Flickr (CC-BY).
Documentation & metadata
Author: Robin Rice, Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu
Video featuring Prof John McInnes created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebaiwg08CW8.
Online documentation snippet from ESDS Qualidata: Edwardians: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973 (SN 2000). Professor Paul Thompson. Used with permission as CC-BY.
Video featuring Gitit Kadar Satat created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAlTiODnPwg.
Image by mbrill Bill Bradford on Flickr (CC-BY-2.0) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/3452943573/.
Lab notebook insert embedded URL from Wikipedia, included without changes according to the terms of use, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_notebook. ‘View history’ for entry contributors.
Guide to keeping a lab notebook, by C4CFeatures on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgVbXMD-e-w
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Data documentation image by Grant Nicoll, University of Edinburgh. Used with permission.
Storage and security
Author: Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu
17/365 / 20100117 by S0MEBODY 3LSE on Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
Video featuring Prof Jeff Haywood created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1XFKYAcoI.
How to back up your data, by makemagazine on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joGEXCZKugE. Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
Video featuring Prof Lynn Jamieson created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDclTVUyf_k.
Video featuring Prof John McInnes created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPBtJAa9Ic.
Author Loses Chapters - Online Backup - Data Loss Horror Stories, by sumobackup on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xRaVEw65IE. Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
What is Dropbox? by petersaints on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg . Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
Simply Storage: Storage Management, by delllargeenterprise on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw40Y-8o_1g. Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
Confidential waste by DaveBleasdale on Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
Video featuring Prof John McInnes created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3xcDVuw1kQ.
Video featuring Ellie Bates created for MANTRA course by project team (CC-BY). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PChTOLDxk.
Integral Crypto Drive FIPS encrypted range - Main features, by integralmemorytv on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QoJwZWs-A. Included without changes according to the YouTube terms of use.
Software Practicals
Lead Editor: Robin Rice, Editors: Anne Donnelly, Stuart MacdonaldAuthor, SPSS Practical: Joan Corbett, Scottish Centre for Social Research
Author, R Practical: Dr Duncan Smallman
Author, ArcGIS Practical: James Crone, EDINA
Author, NVIVO Practical: Dr Aikaterini Chatsiou, UK Data Archive
