The following list highlights how data management influences different phases of a research project
- Planning - Plan your research project and determine how you will collect and curate your data
- Collecting - Conduct your research and gather your data while keeping notes about your decisions
- Processing - Clean and validate your data, again while keeping notes about your decisions
- Analyzing - Analyze your data and draw your conclusions. Keep notes about your methods and your decisions
- Disseminating - Share your findings
- Preserving - Store your data in a trusted repository
- Re-using - Others may re-use your data for their own own analysis
