UBC Workshop 2: Documentation Writing and ELN

Shelves overflowing with stacks of lab-notebooks? Having a hard time retrieving old data or understanding codes in them?

Presentation:

This session will briefly introduce you with a set of research data management essentials to apply immediately in your daily work; sketch the bigger picture about the transtition from data to knowledge, and finishes with the importance of provenance in scientific work and narrating resarch for future re-use.

Secondly, you will be familiarised with electronic lab notebooks. eLABjournal and Jupyter are the ELN's of choice for this session.

Hands-On:

The first exercise offers you the opportunity to try out different strucutres of how to write a readme-file and possibly helps you find the most natural way of writing these for your specific type of research.

The second and longer interactive session readies demos for eLABjournal or Jupyter notebooks to get a feeling of an electronic aid and the potential benefits of switichng to a digital environment for documenting your work.

This session is wrapped up with a discussion and Q&A section.

In Detail:

Session:
Documentation Writing and ELN

Presentation:
- Research Data Management Essentials
- From Data to Knowledge
- The power of provenance
- Intro to ELN (eLABjournal and Jupyter)

Interactive Exercises:
- readme-file writing
- eLABjournal OR Jupyter Notebooks hands-on

Session Plan, Thursday 24th October 2019:

15:00-16:00

Intro
Ice-Breaker + Grouping
Presentation
Break
Readme-file Exercise
Exercise Discussion

16:00-17:00

Hands-on time for
eLABjournal, or
Jupyter Notebooks

17:00

Snack and Drinks

Workshop 2 of 4

This research data management (RDM) workshop is the second part of a series of four. You can find the other workshops here:
1. Data Management Planning: https://ubc-rdm-workshop1-2019.eventbrite.nl
3. Data Archiving and Data Publishing: https://ubc-rdm-workshop3-2019.eventbrite.nl
4. FAIR data and SPARQLing Genomics: https://ubc-rdm-workshop4-2019.eventbrite.nl

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