{"id":4,"date":"2025-09-11T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/?p=4"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:08:14","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/front-matter\/introduction\/","title":{"raw":"Welcome to\u00a0Research Data Management!","rendered":"Welcome to\u00a0Research Data Management!"},"content":{"raw":"<h3><img class=\"wp-image-671 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1177\" height=\"781\" \/><\/h3>\r\n<h3>Explore data management strategies via the course\u2019s interactive content, engaging animations, and video clips. Learn from the first-hand experiences of experts and emerging scholars. Work through the course at your own pace and schedule \u2014 and download the Learning Journal to find reflection questions and professional development activities that you can revisit throughout your researcher\u2019s journey.<\/h3>\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><strong>Click <a style=\"color: #00ccff\" href=\"https:\/\/pd.athabascau.ca\/content\/enforced\/7501-FGS-RDM-P-0423\/Learning%20Journal.pdf\">HERE<\/a> to download your Learning Journal<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<sub><span class=\"contentpasted0\">Content in Research Data Management by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the\u00a0 Library and Scholarly Resources, Athabasca University is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence (<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-nc%2F4.0%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cjwestlake%40athabascau.ca%7C0db9076c062a438f4ddf08db4114b612%7Ca893bdd2f4604252aa344d057436a09d%7C0%7C0%7C638175329438202630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qb0FPYQEMmqEcqdTZEAx9hCqPCHOaZ0QtSzXG%2FFjK9s%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"loopstyle_link\">CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a><span class=\"contentpasted0\">) and has been adapted from other openly licensed work credited in each module where it is used and in the acknowledgements section of the Back Matter.<\/span><\/sub>\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/front-matter\/course-overview\/\">Next: Course Overview<\/a><\/h4>","rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-671 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1177\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-1536x1020.png 1536w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-65x43.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-225x149.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-350x232.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2528\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1.png 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Explore data management strategies via the course\u2019s interactive content, engaging animations, and video clips. Learn from the first-hand experiences of experts and emerging scholars. Work through the course at your own pace and schedule \u2014 and download the Learning Journal to find reflection questions and professional development activities that you can revisit throughout your researcher\u2019s journey.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><strong>Click <a style=\"color: #00ccff\" href=\"https:\/\/pd.athabascau.ca\/content\/enforced\/7501-FGS-RDM-P-0423\/Learning%20Journal.pdf\">HERE<\/a> to download your Learning Journal<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><span class=\"contentpasted0\">Content in Research Data Management by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the\u00a0 Library and Scholarly Resources, Athabasca University is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence (<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-nc%2F4.0%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cjwestlake%40athabascau.ca%7C0db9076c062a438f4ddf08db4114b612%7Ca893bdd2f4604252aa344d057436a09d%7C0%7C0%7C638175329438202630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qb0FPYQEMmqEcqdTZEAx9hCqPCHOaZ0QtSzXG%2FFjK9s%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"loopstyle_link\">CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a><span class=\"contentpasted0\">) and has been adapted from other openly licensed work credited in each module where it is used and in the acknowledgements section of the Back Matter.<\/span><\/sub><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/front-matter\/course-overview\/\">Next: Course Overview<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[12],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-4","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions\/842"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rdmoer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}