Glossary

Glossary

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• Data management: The process of storing, documenting, organizing, and sharing the data created and collected during a project.
• Data management plan: A document which outlines information about a project’s research data and how it will be processed.
• DOI: A Digital Object Identifier is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely.
• FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. These are principles for data sharing.
• Function: A function is a reusable section of software that can be treated as a black box by the rest of the program.
• GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation. Legislation in the United Kingdom and European Union dealing with the processing of sensitive data.
• Golden copy: A read only, backed up copy of raw data for a project.
• Pseudocode: A plain language description of code or analysis steps.
• README file: An overview document that collects the most important information about your project, kept at the top level of the project’s file structure.
• Software license: A document that provides legally binding guidelines for the use and distribution of software.
• Version control system: Stores snapshots of a project’s files in a repository.