General LTAR Data Management FAQ

Here are some useful resources on managing and sharing LTAR data. This will be a crowsourced effort allowing LTAR data managers to learn from one another on best practicies for managing their LTAR site's data.

What is data management?

An informative video on what data management is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWutnWBfUSw&t=0s

What are some resources for data storage/sharing/and data management from NAL?

• https://3.basecamp.com/3486446/buckets/7555651/messages/1617519577#__recording_1617649487
• https://3.basecamp.com/3486446/buckets/2495987/messages/1630237786#__recording_1630243448
• https://3.basecamp.com/3486446/buckets/1252299/messages/1287645106#__recording_1287931659

What are some data repositories registries?

• https://www.re3data.org/
• https://fairsharing.org/databases/

What are some best practices on creating data dictionaries?

• https://www.dataone.org/best-practices/create-data-dictionary

What are some open data/big data resources?

• CGIAR: Platform for Big Data in Agriculture: https://bigdata.cgiar.org
• GODAN: Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition: https://www.godan.info
• Agriculture Data Coalition: http://agdatacoalition.org
• Open Ag Data Alliance: http://openag.io

What are some good best practices on versioning data, code, etc?

• Semantic Versioning is a good approach: https://semver.org

What is a good guide to define and create a data inventory?

GovEx Labs - Data Inventory Guide: https://labs.centerforgov.org/data-governance/data-inventory

Git: How do I do a pull request?

Found this tutorial very useful to do this: https://opensource.com/article/19/7/create-pull-request-github