Love Your Data Blog Series: Research Data Management Awareness Campaign for Legal Historians

How can you raise awareness of research data management among your colleagues? How do you explain to them that it is beneficial for their project and not just a requirement from above? How can you convince them that research data is a highly valuable scientific resource? How can you encourage them to share their data, while also dispelling their fears about having their ideas stolen?

As a data steward and researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory, I recently had to address all of these issues on a daily basis. When policies fail and anxieties run high, a bottom-up approach to the problem is needed. This is how the awareness campaign, 'Love Your Data Blog Series: RDM for Legal History' came about.