Data and Information Management
Best practice examples and case studies on how to manage data and information effectively
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Data Management Plans: Taming the Chaos
Mark Whiteley, Climate Action Scope 3 Data Officer in the Sustainability & Space Team, writes a guest blog on his experience of creating Data Management Plans for non-research purposes and why they are helpful. So why did I make...
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How Information Governance can make you more sustainable
I’m sorry, what’s the connection? It’s the University of Bath’s Green Week and we all want to make the biggest changes to our carbon footprint with the lowest effort. While no-one would normally look at Information Governance for sustainability gains,...
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The Skeletons in Your OneDrive
Deleting Personal Data after a specified period of time (outlined in the University’s Records Retention Schedule) is a legal requirement, but what if some data slips through the net? All of our OneDrives contain files that are automatically saved and...
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Subject Access Requests: What To Do and Why You Should Care
Imagine you’ve been promoted. You’re ecstatic on your first week of your new job and nothing can bring you down. You get an email from a former colleague, someone that was passed over for this promotion before bitterly moving to a new job. They ask to see all the emails...
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File Naming: Tips and Why You Should Care
What you don’t want Harrison picks up another page and sighs. It’s his third afternoon in a row of looking for inconsistencies between the digital and paper records. He must have gotten through 3,000 pages by now. Only 21,000 more to go. ...
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Making the most of student data
Introduction It’s your first day at the University, and you’re trying to find out more about the student population and you need some data. Having spoken to a few colleagues, you know that this data is really important and underpins...
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Don’t Go It Alone. Advancement Makes Alumni Engagement Count!
Do you know how to connect with alumni from your faculty? Or are you in touch with alumni directly? Would you like to contact alumni for course promotion, research collaboration, industry insight or fundraising and mentorship opportunities? Do you need the most up to date data...
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Lost in Translation: Why Definitions Matter
Picture the scene: your manager approaches you and asks, “how many international students do we have?” No problem. You pull up the data, you calculate it, you get a number. You are diligent in your work, so you ask your...
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Personal Data Breaches
According to the Information Commission, personal data breaches are any breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data. It is really important that colleagues report any potential breaches...
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Archiving and Disposing of Data and Information
If data is the stuff that keeps the University in motion, information is what drives it forward and records supply proof of the direction of travel, then archives allow us to see the roads we’ve taken and how far we’ve...
