Courses on Data Management

The Data Life Cycle - From Planning to Sharing and Reuse

These videos are part of the courses on research data management, offered by the Open Science Services (for students).

1. Data Management Planning
2. Collecting Research Data
3. Processing Research Data
4. Data Sharing & Publishing
5. Data Preservation
6. Data Reuse and Discovery

Introductory videos on other aspects of research data management

• What is FAIR data
• Data documentation
• Persistent identifiers
• Handling personal data in research

Introductory Videos from Studium Digitale BSc

These videos are part of the course element "Organize, save and reuse data" and come from the Digital Studies program of the UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI).

• Open Data and Data Management (in German)
• Organising Data (in German)
• Data Security, Part 1 (in German)
• Data Security, Part 2 (in German)
• (Re)Using Data (in German)

Data Management (Plans)

How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)? (Open Science Services)

Data management plans at LiRI (LiRI Data Stewards)

Getting started with Data Management (LiRI Data Stewards)

Data Stew: A Collection of Links for Data Stewardship (LiRI Data Stewards)

Managing Preclinical Neuroimaging Data (COCOPREND, LiRI Data Stewards) - useful for all kinds of data

FAIR Data

How to make data FAIR? (Open Science Services)

Data Organization

Data Organization (Open Science Services)

Guide for Organizing and Managing Tabular Data (LiRI Data Stewards)

File Naming Conventions (Center for Reproducible Science)

Brain Imaging Data Structure - BIDS  (LiRI Data Stewards)

Data Sharing

Sharing Clinical Trial Data

Clinical Research Data Sharing in Switzerland in a Nutshell

Long-term Archiving of Experimental Data

These courses have to be booked via the module booking system of UZH.

Courses for PhDs & students  (all disciplines)

Data Information Literacy (GEO802) (Faculty of Sciences)

The courses offered via the Graduate Campus are bookable for Postdocs and PhDs.

• Good Research Practice  | 20 & 27 March 2025 (full day)
• Design your Data Management Plan for the SNSF | self-paced online course
• Open Up & Share: Publications, Data, Impact | 27 May 2026 (full day)

More courses for PhDs are offered via the School for Transdisciplinary Studies.

Courses offered via the School for Transdisciplinary Studies