Glossary of Terms
Statement describing how research data will be managed throughout a specified research project's life cycle - during and after the active phase of the research project - including terms regarding archiving and potential preservation of the data in a data repository. The DMP is considered to be a 'living' document, i.e. one which can be updated when necessary.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Set of measures that are used by a repository to form aggregations of data objects (including collections and metadata) to describe the properties of data objects, to register persistent indentifiers (PIDs), to build PID records, to link between all components, and to set up containers (in the form of a software stack) that are used to store all components.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Activity within archiving in which digital objects (e.g., data and metadata) are maintained over time so that they can still be accessed and understood through changes in technology by designated communities. Preservation actions for analogue materials may include the creation of digital surrogates.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Physical or digital storage location that can house, preserve, manage, and provide access to many types of digital and physical materials in a variety of formats. Materials in online repositories are curated to enable search, discovery, and reuse. There must be sufficient control for the physical and digital material to be authentic, reliable, accessible and usable on a continuing basis.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Re-analysis of a dataset or combination of datasets outside of the original research purpose for which the dataset was created.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Practice of making data available for checking, reproducing or reusing. The mechanisms available for achieving this are: making data available on request, as supplementary information to journal articles, or as published datasets in data repositories.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Data about data. Defines and describes the characteristics of other data. It is used to improve the understanding and use of the data.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Set of guiding principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
The World Wide Web Consortium’s Platform for Personal Privacy Project (P3P) offers specific recommendations for practices that will let users define and share personal information with Web sites that they agree to share it with. The P3P incorporates a number of industry proposals, including the Open Profiling Standard (OPS). Using software that adheres to the P3P recommendations, users will be able to create a personal profile, all or parts of which can be made accessible to a Web site as the user directs. A tool that will help a user decide whether to trust a given website with personal information is a Statement of Privacy Policy that a website can post.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Data that are used as primary sources to support technical or scientific enquiry, research, scholarship, or artistic activity, and that are used as evidence in the research process and/or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results. All digital and non-digital content has the potential of becoming research data.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Entire period of time that research data exists. This lifecycle describes the flow of research data starting from planning, collecting, processing, analysing, preserving, sharing and finally reusing the research data. Research data often have a longer lifespan than the research project.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Storage, access and preservation of data created or collected in the course of research. Research data management practices cover the entire lifecycle of the data, from planning the investigation to conducting it, and from backing up data as it is created and used to long term preservation of data deliverables after the research investigation has concluded.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
Software written to create, generate, analyse or display research data.
Source: CODATA RDM-T
This glossary is aligned with the CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDM-T), a SKOS-controlled vocabulary maintained by the CODATA RDM Terminology Working Group.