Robin R ice & La ine RuusUnivers i t y o f Ed inburgh Data L ibrary & EDINA

r. r i ce@ed .ac .uk, l a ine . ruus@ed.ac .uk

MANTRA at the University of Edinburgh

Overview

What is MANTRA The 9 modules Tailored subsections Future proposed developments

What is MANTRA

• Openly licensed online learning self-paced course in RDM for postgrads and early career researchers

• Grounded in three disciplines, working with post-graduate schools

• Included video stories from researchers in variety of settings

• Powered by Xerte

What is MANTRA

8 interactive online units 4 downloadable data handling tutorials Developed as a Jisc-funded Managing

Research Data project (2010-11), revised and updated summer 2014

maintained by University of Edinburgh Data Library staff

Start here - http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

Click here for a brief

overview

Click here to start

the module

Module 1:

Module 2:

Module 3:

Module 4:

Module 5:

Module 6:

Module 7:

Module 8:

Data handling tutorials

Exercises on data handling, and data, using the following software: SPSS R ArcGIS NVivo

The tailored subsections

Contain: suggestions as to modules of particular

interest to specific subgroups, and outline of a training course for librarians

Proposals for future developments

University of Edinburgh has received the following proposals: from Québec to translate MANTRA into

French, from Brazil to translate MANTRA into

Portuguese

Exercise

Access MANTRA http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

Select a module of interest and work through it

Reporting: one thing you learned from the module that you did not know before!

What suggestions do you have for improvement?

What questions do you have?