Data Horror Escape Room

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You found a test! You better not disappoint Prof. Hutseephluts and answer all the questions correctly or you may never see daylight again!

What are reasons to archive your research data? Long-term preservation Replication/reproducibility Longitudinal research The data are unique or new data collection is expensive Re-usability by your future-self or other researchers Acceleration of research inside or outside your own discipline Funders ask you to To protect it from zombies

Which of the following should data repositories minimally provide? A persistent identifier (e.g. DOI, Handle), which provides a permanent link to the data, making your data findable and citable. A licence, providing clarity for the potential user of your data whether and how re-use of your data is permitted. A (basic) preservation and data availability statement. The requirement to add appropriate metadata to the data.

The website Re3data can be used to find a suitable data repository for your discipline. True False

GitHub can be used as a publicly accessible platform with version control for research software/code. True False

You want to make your data publicly available. What are FAIR ways to do this? Have a pack of werewolves spread your data across the country. Share a dropbox link to the data with anyone that requests access. Upload the data to a repository like DANS-EASY, DataVerseNL, or 4TU.ResearchData. Email the data to your collegues and peers. Upload the data to the Open Science Framework (OSF).

If there is no licence, this means that anyone can do anything with the data. True False

Something is not correct.

Well done, you've passed the test! Prof. Hutseephluts marked the bottom of the bin with the word AVOID. Make a note of it!