About

Background

Managing Data @Melbourne is an online program that guides you through the process of writing a data management plan for your research project. It has been developed for graduate researchers, early career researchers, and information professionals.

The program uses the Australian research context and was initiated and is maintained by the Digital Stewardship (Research) team at the University of Melbourne.

View the Terms of Use section below.

Acknowledgements

The Managing Data @Melbourne program was inspired by and based on the Research Data MANTRA [online course] developed by EDINA and Data Library, University of Edinburgh. The original work can be found here.

The creators of Managing Data @Melbourne would like to thank everyone who contributed to the project, the video interviewees from the University of Melbourne and other colleagues from across the University.

Terms of use

  • Please refer to the Terms and Conditions detailed below our Credit listing.

Credits within specific sections of the Managing Data @ Melbourne program.

Managing Data @Melbourne landing page
Videos

Title: Managing Data @Melbourne: An Introduction
created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne.
Available at: https://vimeo.com/203749198
Cite video as: University of Melbourne (2017). Managing Data @Melbourne: An Introduction [Video file]. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved from: http://www.library.unimelb.edu.au/data

1. Getting Started with Research Data
Videos Title: Spotlight on Graduate Research Data, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences
Featuring Ting Ting Lee, Centre for Neural Engineering and Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences) created for Managing Data @Melbourne  at the University of Melbourne.
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/a65588c2-2c75-48a5-99a3-872c9f25731a/public
2. Developing your Data Management Plan
Videos Title: Spotlight of Graduate Research Data, Faculty of Education
Featuring: Nathaniel Swan (Faculty of Education).
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/4a5b1bc6-b6c9-4501-aed1-87b3564a6e75/public
3. Ethics and Legal Issues
Images

Title: Postcard form the edge: Greetings from an ambiguous landscape
Text source: Flick, C. (2016). Informed consent and the Facebook emotional manipulation study. Research Ethics, 12(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161155995
Image: Boliviainteligente on Unsplash

Videos

Title: Spotlight on Graduate Research Data, Faculty of Science
Featuring: Anne Aulsebrook, School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science.
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/bc964f0b-fad1-4985-a1e9-edfbaf4b550b/public

4. Organising, Storing and Backing-up your Data
Images

Title: Postcard form the edge: Greetings from a Bitcoin Backup Disaster
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_buried_in_Newport_landfill (2026)
Image: Antoine Giret on Unsplash

Videos

Title: Sensitive Data Management
Featuring: Fanqi Liu Project Officer, Research Data Management. University of Melbourne
B-roll footage credit:
"Video by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/videos

  • Working woman doing paperwork.
  • Red-haired female filling out an employment contract for a company.
  • Aerial View of a Valley with River and Rock Formations
  • Co Workers Interview A Young Man Sitting At A Table In The Office.
    Panning Down a Fast Flowing River

"Video by Pexels" https://www.pexels.com/videos/

  • Man and Woman at Meeting Over a Contract
  • People Dancing In Slow Motion
  • A Koala Resting on a Tree Branch
  • Rock Formations by the Shore

Music: "Music by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/audio
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/pixel-glow
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/neon-blur-collapse
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/4c0a98f5-b513-4e47-99d4-99459b57e038/public

5.Documenting and Describing your Data
Images

Title: Postcard form the edge: Greetings from a Documentation Disaster
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter (2026)
Image: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

6. Sharing and Preserving your Data
Images

Title: Postcard form the edge: Greetings from Data Sharing through global repositories
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yongzhen#COVID-19_pandemic (2026)
Image: Brian McGowan on Unsplash

Title: Postcard form the edge: Greetings from Obsolete Digital Formats
Text & image: https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/warhol-and-the-amiga/

Videos

Title: Publishing your data with Melbourne Figshare
Featuring: Amanda Belton, Research Data Specialist, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform
B-roll footage credit:
QIN, WEI; Belton, Amanda; Scott, Ethan (2026). Zoom through zebrafish brain neuronal activity during an induced seizure. The University of Melbourne. Media. https://doi.org/10.26188/31093849
Music: "Music by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/audio
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/pixel-glow
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/8c84f0fc-fd6b-41a8-b40c-e7113ff5136f/public

Title: Data Retention at the University of Melbourne
Featuring: Eva Samaras, Records Management and Digital Preservation Specialist
B-roll footage credit:
"Video by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/videos

  • Bearded serious CEO in glasses working on laptop

Music: "Music by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/audio
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/pixel-glow
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/rewind-the-tape
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/a544b9e2-5c42-4cba-9725-ba622590efbf/public

Title: Digital Preservation Consideration for Researchers
Featuring: Eva Samaras, Records Management and Digital Preservation Specialist
B-roll footage credit:
"Video by Pexels" https://www.pexels.com/videos/

  • A Person Putting USB on the Laptop
  • Stack of Electronic Waste
  • Person Working Using Macbook
  • Hands Typing on Laptop in Modern Office Environment

Music: "Music by Freepik" https://www.freepik.com/audio
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/pixel-glow
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/tech-noir
Created for Managing Data @Melbourne at the University of Melbourne
Available at: https://echo360.net.au/media/6b528e0d-8fd8-46d3-bfaa-44ca33aace3f/public

Terms of use

Managing Data @Melbourne, University of Melbourne [online course] [http://library.unimelb.edu.au/data], is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

This licence excludes the logos of the University of Melbourne, Freepik and Pexels (listed above) you are free to re-use part or all of the written content work elsewhere, with or without modification.

You are welcome to link to the Managing Data @Melbourne videos.  You can use the videos as permitted under copyright law in your jurisdiction.  For any other uses, please contact the University of Melbourne for permission.

Citation

Tape, Sally; Neish, Peter (2026). Managing Data @Melbourne. The University of Melbourne. Educational resource. https://doi.org/10.26188/32118892

In order to comply with the attribution requirements of the Creative Commons license (CC-BY), we request that you cite as above, or be sure to include:

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Course content can be downloaded from the University of Melbourne Repository at https://doi.org/10.26188/32118892

Previous version of this content is available to download from the University of Melbourne Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/11343/225138.