Preparing to gather data for your thesis or dissertation? Have a spreadsheet that just doesn’t cut it anymore? We can help you organize and manage your data more easily using Metabase, our template database that can be customized to fit your specialty, interests, and project requirements.
Features
- Collaborative, online format
- Controlled access – can be password protected and different roles (users) can be given different privileges (view only, edit certain types of records, etc)
- Adaptable to variety of specializations/research projects
- Built on data management best practices for archaeological research
- Able to batch import and export data
- Able to add variety of file types (pdfs, images, videos, 3D models, spatial data, LiDAR and pointclouds, bibliographic references, etc)
- Modular construction – base data record but able to expand with additional types of records as needed
- Defined terminology that can be used in drop down lists to facilitate data entry and reduce errors or typos
- Multilingual capable (records and interface)
- Option to set up an offline version for field seasons
- Assistance depositing data into long-term preservation repository (obtaining and using DOIs)