Data management camp: a workshop series
Keep your research organized by learning data management skills! Join us this fall for a series of workshops to build and enhance your data management strategies. Topics will range from introductory skills to tool-based workshops, project-level data management, federal mandates, data sharing, and exiting the UMN. Sign up for a single workshop or join us for the entire series.
- Hosted by the University Libraries every fall semester.
- Free to U of M affiliates
- Workshops will be held online via Zoom. Learn more about each workshop and register below.
- Students are encouraged to self-enroll in the Canvas course to access asynchronous content.
- There will be an opportunity to earn a Foundations of Data Management Badge by attending at least 3 of the workshops below and completing assignments in the associated asynchronous Data Management Canvas course.
- Sponsored by the University Libraries, LATIS, the Graduate School, RIO, and the Informatics Institute.
Questions? Contact datamgntcamp@umn.edu
Data management topics and tools: An introduction to data management
August 19, 2025 | 11am - 12:30pm
Join us for a workshop introducing topics and tools to help you manage your research data. This workshop will kick off our series of data management workshops over the fall semester. This introductory workshop will build upon topics covered in the asynchronous Canvas course, and present data management issues specific to researchers in the sciences, arts & humanities, and for those working with data involving human participants. The session will include a preview of tools for managing a variety of data across your entire research project.
Research Project Management
September 17, 2025 | 10am - 11:30am
As a graduate student you will undoubtedly be asked to participate in or design multiple research projects. Some of these projects may have concrete goals while others may be more exploratory and theoretical. Employing good project management skills is important for not only the completion of each project but their longevity as helpful scholarship after you graduate. We will discuss different project management strategies and explore various tools for tracking project progress and staying on task. While discussion will draw on traditional project management ideas, skills, strategies, and methods, they will be adapted to better fit the academic research project environment. This workshop is great for those at any stage in the research project process.
Data Snack: current state of federal open access requirements
September 30, 2025 | 10am - 10:30am
In 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo requiring that all federal funding agencies implement policies for immediate sharing of publications and data for their grantees by December 31, 2025. The Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have already implemented this requirement. What does this mean for data management practices during the lifecycle of your research project? What must you write into a grant application? How do you know when and where to share your publications and data? All of these topics and more will be explored in this session.
Data Snack: How to select a repository for data sharing
October 7, 2025 | 10am - 10:30am
Both funders and journals frequently require data sharing, but selecting the data repository in which to place your data is a vast and often confusing process. This session will walk you through a tool to help you select a repository and alert you to policies and repository characteristics you should be aware of before depositing your data.
Data Snack: Sharing data in DRUM
October 21, 2025 | 10am - 10:30am
This session is for folks who anticipate that they may share datasets in the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM). We’ll talk about how to prepare the data and develop documentation and metadata. A step-by-step demonstration on how to upload data to DRUM will round out the session.
Data Snack: Data Management when you graduate
November 4, 2025 | 10am - 10:30am
As a student at the University of Minnesota, you have access to the Libraries, file storage, computing systems, and software designed to help you do your research, scholarly, and creative work. When you graduate, your access to many of these things will change. This session will provide an overview of actions graduate students should take to manage files associated with their scholarly work before and after they leave the UMN.