Niko Papadopoulos

04.11.2025

Datamanagement

What is version control and why should I care? &

Sharing and archiving data: when, where, and how?

Senior Scientist

Unit for Integrative Zoology, Department of Evolutionary Biology
University of Vienna

Summary

Version control

- It broke… hopefully I have a working version somewhere?
- Can you please send me the latest version?
- Where is the latest version?
- Which version are you using?
- I am sure it used to work… When did it change?
- My laptop is dead. Is my thesis now gone?

I will talk about why you should treat your code the same way as your experimental protocols, and present a tool that can help you do that."

Sharing and archiving data

Online repositories have made data storage and sharing the easiest it has ever been. I will provide a short overview of data repositories and resources that you might want to consider.