Learning Objectives

Knowledge:

• Identify the key stakeholders of a data archive and recognize their roles
• Understand how to develop a data dictionary with the appropriate level of granularity
• Recognize what is involved in designing and maintaining an archive for shared data

Skills:

• Develop requirements for information to include in a data archive
• Construct a deposition and annotation workflow based on a data dictionary
• Design and implement a small deposition system for data capture

Project:

• The provided exercises guide students step-by-step to design, create, and query their own biological MySQL-based database