Summary and Schedule
This is a tutorial built with The Carpentries Workbench.
Welcome
Welcome to the online materials for the Yoda hands-on tutorial! This tutorial is developed by the SURF Data Management Services team that hosts several Yoda instances in the Netherlands. These online materials are free to use for anyone who wants to learn more about research data management in Yoda. The materials are also shared under a CC-BY license, for others who want to re-use, share or adapt part of the materials in their own courses.
Overview
Questions
- How to manage research data in the Yoda web portal?
Objectives
After completion of this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of metadata and its relation to the dataset
- Demonstrate how to search for datasets in Yoda
- Explain the difference between the Research area and the Vault area in Yoda
- Demonstrate how to include useful metadata in Yoda
- Show how to upload data in Yoda
- Operate the cycle of securing, retrieving, and updating data independently in Yoda
- Operate the cycle of securing data supervised by a data steward in Yoda
- Demonstrate how to check metadata and approve submissions to Yoda Vault
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Introduction |
What is Yoda? What are best practices for research data management (RDM)? ::: |
| Duration: 00h 10m | 2. Connecting to the Yoda portal |
How to connect to Yoda? ::: |
| Duration: 00h 16m | 3. Finding and reusing existing data |
How do you find data in Yoda? How do you work with data and metadata in Yoda? ::: |
| Duration: 00h 51m | 4. Unsupervised RDM cycle |
How do you add metadata to your project in Yoda? How do you secure your data in Yoda Vault? How do you retrieve data from the Vault into Yoda’s Research area? ::: |
| Duration: 01h 26m | 5. Supervised RDM cycle |
How do researchers and data stewards collaborate in Yoda? ::: |
| Duration: 02h 01m | 6. Epilogue |
What is next? ::: |
| Duration: 02h 07m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
Software Setup
Details
No specific software is needed to follow this tutorial. You do need access to a Yoda instance, where you can log into the web portal. For training hosted by SURF, the portal address is https://surf-yoda.irods.surfsara.nl. For the addresses of institute-specific portals, see this overview of URL’s. Before you can login, course instructors should give you access to the portal.