The International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) Risk Management and Quality Assurance Research Data Management
(RMQA-RDM) training team concluded this year’s first Research Data Management
(RDM) 101 course.
Thirteen
participants completed the three-day training course: three from IRRI-India
country office (CSISA); internal IRRI staff include five from Plant Breeding,
Genetics, and Biotechnology (PBGB), four from Crop and
Environmental Sciences Division (CESD); one from Grain Quality and Nutrition
Center (GQNC); and one from Genetic Resources Center (GRC). It was held on 17-19 March 2015 at the IT Learning Center in the IRRI Headquarters.
The course covered
all areas of data management: data management planning; data documentation;
data collection and pre-analysis of statistical software (using MS Access for data transformation as pre-analysis in
statistical software); data validation and quality control; using bar
codes in experiments; using mobile
devices in collecting data; data storage backup, and security; and data
archival and sharing. Moreover, the training team also discussed and
demonstrated file management tools/software that include: Beyond Compare,
Cobian, Mendeley, and the IRRI Dataverse (an online repository for data
archiving and sharing).
The training team, managed by IRRI-RMQA
Senior Manager Menchu Bernardo, is composed of Enrico Mercado and Deacart
Arreza. Mr. Rogelio Alvarez of Information Technology Services (ITS) provided a
lecture on data backup, security and storage.
RDM 101 is conducted quarterly.
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