The motivation for developing this lesson was provided by a BBSRC award to deliver training on data management, experimental design, and statistical analysis for managers of long-term agricultural experiments. The training was delivered in Nairobi, Kenya in February/March 2023. This lesson presents the material used for the research data management component of the training, and is provided here primarily as a general resource for researches in the long-term experiments community.
The lesson is indebted to existing Carpentries and has adapted material from both FAIR in (biological practice), and Ecology Workshop episodes.
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Tracy Teal (eds): "Data Carpentry: Ecology Workshop overview." Version 2017.04.0, April 2017, http://www.datacarpentry.org/ecology-workshop/
Zieliński T, Romanowski A, et al, "FAIR in (biological) practice", 2022, https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/fair-bio-practice
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Development of this lesson was initiated by BBSRC funding