Data
I'm a special name tag that helps everyone find the same research data, even many years later.
What is a DOI?
I make sure only the right people can enter certain rooms in the data house.
What is Access Control?
I'm where data first comes from before it starts its journey.
What is a Data Source?
I make sure data is neat and easy for others to understand before sharing it.
What is Data Curation?
I'm like Google for your organization's data.
What is a Data Catalog?
I'm like a library card for data. I tell you who made the data, what it means, and where it came from.
What is Metadata?
I'm not a human, but I still need an account because computers sometimes need to talk to other computers.
What is a Machine User?
I help bring new data into the platform, like carrying groceries into the house.
What is Data Ingestion?
I clean and organize messy data, like sorting LEGO bricks by color.
What is Data Processing?
I'm a waiter who takes requests to the right kitchen.
What is an API?
I am a path that data follows. I pick up data, move it around, clean it up, and deliver it where it needs to go.
What is a Data Pipeline?
Without me, everyone stores data differently, nobody can find anything, and searching become very timeconsuming.
What is Data Governance?
I'm what happens when data grows up. From being created, to being used, to being stored away.
What is the Data Lifecycle?
I help people understand where data came from and what happened to it.
What is Data Lineage?
I'm the rulebook for how data should be managed.
What is Data Governance?
I'm a person who checks that research data is stored, described, and shared properly, kind of like a librarian for data.
What is a Data Steward?
People say they want me, everybody agrees I'm important, but nobody wants to spend time creating me.
What is Metadata?
I make data easy to find, access, understand, and reuse.
What are FAIR Principles?
First I check who you are. Then I check what you're allowed to do.
What are Authentication and Authorization?
Everything works perfectly until Friday afternoon.
What is a Deployment?
I'm a package of useful data that people can discover, trust, and use.
What is a Data Product?
People say I'm temporary. I've been here for five years.
What is a Workaround?
Everyone uses me, nobody understands me, and changing me scares people.
What is a Legacy System?
Everybody agrees I should exist. Everybody thinks somebody else should create it.
What is Documentation?
I make sure data can be used again and again by different researchers in the future, even if the people who created it have moved on.
What is Reproducibility?