Lehigh provides a number of data storage options. For your purposes, the following are probably the most important:
Ceph: Not backed up. Using Crashplan to backup Ceph mounted locally as a network drive is strongly recommended.
Local Disk: CrashPlan strongly recommended
Cloud Services: AWS, Lehigh Google, Lehigh Dropbox for Business.
For NIH proposals, review NIH-specific recommendations.
If you want to discuss any of these options and how they relate to your specific data management plan, please go to the homepage of this guide for contact information.
You should be aware of the data classification levels as defined by Lehigh. These define security levels for data. You may want to mention relevant information in your DMP as a way to demonstrate your knowledge of legal, regulative, contractual, or university restrictions on data.
"OSF is a free, secure web application for project management, collaboration, registration, and archiving. Stop losing files, improve collaboration, and integrate OSF projects with the tools you use (e.g., Dropbox, GitHub, Figshare, Dataverse)."
Preregistration challenge from Center for Open Science
"Preregistration adds credibility to results by documenting in advance what will be tested. If you have a project that is entering the data collection phase, preregister now.
Why Preregister?
Makes your science better by increasing the credibility of your results
Allows you to stake your claim to your ideas earlier
It’s easy and you can win a $1,000 prize for publishing the results of your preregistered research."
Two resources can assist you in organizing and making available the data and code that you use in your research and publications.
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Code Ocean
From https://codeocean.com/ : "You can create, collaborate on, and run code for private projects using any open source language as well as MATLAB and Stata. You can submit to publish for free in academic journals."
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Protocols.io
Scroll down in the online laboratory resources library guide to see information.
The information below ranges beyond writing of Data Management Plans, but should be of interest to research groups that apply for grant funding.
Electronic lab notebooks (ELN) function like paper notebooks, but in a more advanced and efficient way. They allow users to input and record text, tables, numerical data, hyperlinks, equations and images into electronic storage (computer, cloud or server) from a keyboard, a sketchpad, a mouse, or directly from scientific instruments. Most web-based ELNs also work as an ideal collaboration tool, facilitating quick communication among collaborators in different geographic locations for joint experiments and research programs.
In terms of data management, ELNs can help scientists:
For Lehigh users, the team collaboration software Confluence can perform well as an ELN. This web-based software has many great features with respect to editing and searching notes, adding attachments, making comments, exporting records, access and version control, adding tools and extensions, etc. First-time users, please see the Confluence resources below.
Concerning use of Confluence for ELN and other research management purposes, see the paper by Prof. Dmitri Vezenov (Chemistry Department), Ting Wang (CLIR Fellow), and Brian Simboli (Science Librarian) on Use of a Wiki-Based Software to Manage Research Group Activities.
To meet a member of Lehigh's web and mobile services team to discuss setting up and using Confluence for research purposes, please go here.
References:
Giles, J. (2012). Going paperless: The digital lab. Nature, 481(7382), 430-431.
Machina, H. K., & Wild, D. J. (2013). Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Progress and Challenges in Implementation. Journal of laboratory automation.
Rubacha, M., Rattan, A. K., & Hosselet, S. C. (2011). A review of electronic laboratory notebooks available in the market today. Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 16(1), 90-98.