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Research Data Management (RDM): RDM Glossary

This guide will serve as an introduction to the basic topics behind Research Data Management.

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CODATA RDM Terminology

The International Science Council's Committee on Data (CODATA) RDM Terminology Working Group first developed a guide to terminology used in RDM in 2023, titling it 2023, v0001. It is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license, which permits almost any use subject to providing credit and license notice.

The goal of this terminology is to gather the key terms needed for a common understanding of the research data management domain. Both human-readable and machine-actionable versions are available:

Human-readable version

Machine-actionable version

The following DOI will always resolve to the latest version of the Terminology: 10.5281/zenodo.10626169

Citation: CODATA RDM Terminology Working Group. CODATA RDM Terminology (2023, v0001): overview. Zenodo; 2024 Jan; accessed 2025 Aug

CODATA RDM Terminology (2023 version)

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