Data Management Implementation Program - Instructor Guide

• Students will learn the principles and best practices for creating and using Tables of contents, indexes, readme files, codebooks, and/or dictionaries.
• Students will begin to create these objects for their research projects. 

Creating and using a Codebook by Mark Litwin https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412984409

• Consider where you have conflicts within your folder structure and also your file naming scheme where you lose context between research objects.
• Outline what documentation or finding aid (ex: index, table of contents) you might need to clarify that conflict. 
• Outline what elements would need to be documented.
• Download documentation spreadsheet and it's corresponding instruction sheet to use in class

​Review the "messy" spreadsheet in class and determine what kind of documentation will be helpful to understand it. How might a table of contents, index, and readme file be relevant to this example.

• Determine where additional documentation is needed for your project and plan the appropriate object. 
• Upload completed spreadsheet for documentation needs.