FORS and DaSCH are happy to announce the launch of a new series of online data management webinars. The webinars are free of charge and are specifically designed for researchers in the humanities and social sciences who collect and/or process research data in the Swiss context.
Fourth webinar:
Topic: how to effectively document research data in the Social Sciences and Humanities fields
When: September 25, 2025 (2:00–3:30 PM)
Where: online register here
The fourth online webinar of the FORS–DaSCH series on Data Management for the Social Sciences and Humanities focuses on how to effectively document research data in the Social Sciences and Humanities fields.
Auriane Marmier (FORS) will explore the different levels of documentation, i.e. project, file, and data level, through concrete examples and discuss how each serves specific purposes and audiences. She will highlight the importance of good documentation practices to ensure data usability, reproducibility, and long-term preservation. She will also introduce practical tools and strategies, such as naming conventions, codebooks, and README files, with insights drawn from real-life social sciences projects.
Noemi Villars-Amberg (DaSCH) will present examples, how project data should be presented and documented on a platform so that the public can understand rapidly what data are archived and for what purposes. She will address the necessity of documenting a data model and a database in general, and explain why explaining how to search the data matters.
Please see also the dedicated webpage for more details.