Let\u2019s kick off LOVE YOUR DATA week with KEEPING DATA SAFE.<\/p>\n
First a sad story \u2013 in one of my first Top Ten Tips for Data Management workshops, I had a workshop participant who I thought was bored out of his skull. He had a glazed look in his eyes and kept shaking his head as if he was saying no, no, no. I approached him, though with some reservations after the workshop, and asked what he thought about the topic and my presentation. His words and I quote were \u201cif only I had known this 6 months ago\u2026I just lost my dissertation work and I am still getting over the shock\u201d. Not bored, but in shock. He had lost 6 months\u2019 worth of work. Sadly he is not the first. If only he and others had known about 3-2-1 or Here-Near and Far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 3-2-1 <\/strong>stands for<\/p>\n 3 copies<\/strong> (1 primary copy and two backup copies of your data)<\/p>\n 2 formats for storage<\/strong> (use a computer hard drive and an external hard drive)<\/p>\n 1 remote copy<\/strong> (cloud storage or geographically separate from your other copies)<\/p>\n These three tips will help keep your data safe and protect your valuable time.<\/p>\n Here, Near and Far is another way of thinking about the same tips. Set up an automatic back up for your data to make it even easier.<\/p>\n At UC we have a few tools that can help you back up your data:<\/p>\n 1) Use your Box account<\/a>. You have 50 GB available to you. IT@UC<\/a> also has other data solutions available.<\/p>\n 2) You can track your work with the Open Science Framework <\/a>developed by the Center for Open Science<\/a> or use GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n 3) Attend a data management workshop<\/a> offered by UC Libraries. We have several coming up particular a workshop called Managing Research Data from Generation to Preservation on April 19t<\/sup><\/a>h<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Fun Fact: Did you know we can still look at Darwin\u2019s original notebooks through the Darwin Online<\/a> project. Someone took extra special care for those files. Let\u2019s do the same for your data.<\/p>\n Check out this fun video <\/a>about data back-up and learn how the movie Toy Story 2 was almost lost, but was saved by the 3-2-1 rule.<\/p>\n Visit the Love your Data website <\/a>for more tips to help keep your data safe. Follow the event on Twitter at #LYD16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s kick off LOVE YOUR DATA week with KEEPING DATA SAFE. First a sad story \u2013 in one of my first Top Ten Tips for Data Management workshops, I had a workshop participant who I thought was bored out of … Continue reading