Data management support for environmental monitoring and assessment

SLU's data management policy treats environmental monitoring and assessment data in the same way as research data. The policy states, among other things, that research and EMA data should be made as open as possible and only as closed as necessary, and should be managed in accordance with good research practice. In addition, SLU's endorsement of the FAIR principles includes EMA data. Data management in environmental monitroing and assessment is also governed by the Quality guide for the management of environmental data.

• Read more: SLU's data management policy
• Read more: FAIR data

Support at SLU

Data Management Support (DMS) at the SLU University Library provides support to SLU staff working with scientific data, whether it is from research or environmental monitoring and assessment.

• Data management support at SLU

There is a working group within DMS called the Unit for Data Management Guidance and Development (DMGD) that works specifically with EMA data.

DMGD tasks include:

• supporting data management within SLU's environmental monitoring and assessment activities;
• organising seminars and webinars on data management;
• providing guidance on data management for EMA projects;
• advising projects on how improve their data management quality. The advice is based on, among other things, the steering documents for data management that exist within SLU's monitoring and assessment;
• manage the SLU environmental data catalogue, which contains data descriptions for open data from SLU’s EMA.

Read more about DMGD on the SLU staff web: Data Management Guidance and Development