1. Five tips for Painless Data Sharing.
Iain Styles School of Computer Science

2. Outline Data sharing is technically easy
But practically difficult if you are not prepared
What can you do to make it easy?

3. Your data is your research

4. Plan to share data Build data sharing into project plans
Discuss at the start with collaborators
Know your funder requirements

5. Use the Facilities The RDS is where your data goes “No USB” rule
Why make more work and risk for yourself?

6. Curate your data Plan to organise data Review data regularly
Keep raw data raw

7. Analyse with Workflows
Can you reproduce the sequence of buttons you clicked?
Write scripts/macros where possible
Share the workflow with the data

8. Version control
Use tools to control and document versions

9. Summary Data sharing is crucial to good research
We have great tools – use them
Make data sharing an integral part of your processes