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Preserving Your Research Data

James Baker; edited by Adam Crymble; reviewed by Jane Winters, Sharon Howard and William J. Turkel

Teaches practical preservation of context, file relationships and research decisions that another reader can understand.

A question to carry into the reading

Could a successor distinguish the original observation, your transformation and your interpretation?

Documenting research data, then Structuring research data; prepare a short README for a fictional project.

Further reading: MA-OPEN-032

These are curatorial comparisons, not evidence supporting a scientific claim.

Reading and source

Publisher warns that Old Bailey examples no longer work as described. Treat as a methods reading; software suggestions are dated. Raw Markdown includes Jekyll/Liquid syntax and is an archival source, not a ready web page. One relative example-README link requires the publisher's base URL.

The original Markdown is preserved unchanged. Use the publisher’s formatted lesson for ordinary reading; this local page identifies the archived source and retains the outdated-example warning.

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Edition, source and reuse

Edition: Programming Historian 3 (2014), DOI 10.46430/phen0039; source snapshot includes April 2024 warning

Rights: CC BY 4.0 on the published lesson. Original source Markdown retained; external linked works and site assets are not included.

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Preserving Your Research Data — James Baker; edited by Adam Crymble; reviewed by Jane Winters, Sharon Howard and William J. Turkel. Programming Historian 3 (2014), DOI 10.46430/phen0039; source snapshot includes April 2024 warning. Source: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/preserving-your-research-data. Selected source bytes unchanged; HCR description and reading question are separate.

Review scope: Published lesson and original repository Markdown read; attribution, warning and source bytes compared in scope.