Guides

Guide to assist with using the LDaCA data portal.

A practical guide to using Crate-O, covering key RO-Crate and metadata concepts, navigating the interface, creating RO-Crates and adding metadata in bulk using spreadsheets.

A guide to citing collections and data accessed through the LDaCA data portal.

Outlines steps for acquiring a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for a data collection.

Not sure what metadata means or why it matters when working with language data? This guide breaks down the key concepts and explains how metadata helps make language materials easier to describe, find and use.

Defines a workflow for determining the access conditions for a data collection, to be outlined in the license.

Defines policies, roles, responsibilities and procedures for ongoing use and storage of data, as well as for access to data.

An introduction to working with text as data. Covers key text analysis concepts and the workflow from preparing and analysing text through to documenting and packaging research outputs for reuse.

A LADAL tutorial introducing text analysis in R and a range of text analytics methods. Some familiarity with R and RStudio is required, so we recommend being comfortable with the material covered in the R Basics section before getting started.