Getting to know your dataset : does my research involve data ?

"Research data" designate any form of input (factual elements) used in your research as a capture of the phenomenon you are studying. These inputs are commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary to validate research results.

Does your research involve data ?

Yes, I already have an idea of what my dataset looks like or will look like. No, I don’t think I have, or will have, any data.

Will you be using any of the specific kinds of research materials listed below ? If not sure about what to check, ask your Research Data Officer (RDO):

Texts: books, letters, parchments, manuscripts, contracts, registers, legislation, newspapers, transcripts, administrative documents, etc. Interviews, surveys, questionnaires Images, photographs, scans, audio or video recordings Maps or plans Audiovisual productions and artistic objects (paintings, sculptures, musical scores, cinematographic production, video games, ...) Archaeological material, artifacts Measurements, figures, statistics Experimental data (obtained from laboratory equipment) Observation data, field notes, laboratory notebooks (paper or electronic), protocols or workflows Biological material (human, animal, plant, etc.) Medical imaging Web data (e.g. data collected on social networks and video sharing platforms, AI-related data, including large training datasets, models, mining or scraping data) Data from (large) databases None of the above

Will you be using any of the theoretical or abstract kinds of research materials listed below ? Several answers are possible (if not sure about what to check, ask your RDO):

Only a state of the art, based on a literature statement Computer code, computational or simulation data (e.g. cosmological simulation, weather or seismic simulation models) Purely theoretical models and/or reflections Other types of material None of the above

Is there any other type of research materials on which you will base the results you will present in your publication (if not sure about what to check, ask your RDO) ?

Yes, I actually have data. None of the previous categories fit.

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