Data Handling Best Practives

Table of contents

• C2SM data management guidelines
• ETH Links
• ETH Contacts
• Data repositories
• Open access journals
• Funding agencies open access policies
• Licensing
• Help on improving NetCDF metadata

C2SM data management guidelines

C2SM Data Management Recommendations 2020

ETH Links

• Research Data at ETH Zurich
• New Guidelines for Research Data Management -> PDF
• Forschungsdatenmanagement und Datenerhalt
• ETH Guidelines for Research Integrity
• ETH Research Collection
• Add your ORCID ID to your ETH account
• ETH Guidelines for data management plans

ETH Contacts

• DMPs: Digital Curation Office, ETH Library, ETH Zurich, ETH Digital Curation Webpage
• Research Collection: Barbara Hirschmann, ETH Research Collection, ETH Library, ETH Zurich, ETH Research Collection Webpage
• openBIS software: Dr. Caterina Barillari, ETH SIS, ETH Personal Page

Data repositories

• C2SM datasets
• Directory of data repositories
• ETH research collection
• Zenodo
• IAC data pool
• IAC gitlab

Open access journals

• Directory of open access journals
• Check specific journal access policy

Funding agencies open access policies

• Open research data @SNSF
• Check specific funder archiving mandates

Licensing

• Advices on how to license research data
• Creative commons licenses
• Open data commons licenses
• GNU licenses
• Open definition for data
• Creative commons and open science
• Copyleft definition
• Why avoiding non-commercial licenses?
• Advices on how to cite datasets
• SPDX (standard for easy sofware licensing

Help on improving NetCDF metadata

• IAC internal documentation on NetCDF in general (!with IAC login only)
• Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions
• Python CF checker
• CMIP6 controlled vocabularies