Nightmare on Research Street 2019: The Sequel

"It was 4 a.m. on the Friday of Finals Week and my paper was due in 4 hours. My parents had already moved me out of my dorm for the summer and I was working in their hotel room. I had almost completed my revision of my final paper when, suddenly, the screen went blank...I lost everything except my first page."

Hopefully, this doesn't sound familiar to you. If it does, you're among friends.

Come share harrowing tales of research loss and close calls that haunt us as we return for Nightmare on Research Street: The Sequel. Picking up where our protagonists left off in 2018, our cast of data-loss survivors and research data super sleuths will banish the specters of data-gone-wrong and discuss tactics and strategies to keep your data alive. 

Whether we use qualitative or quantitative data, paper manuscripts, physical samples, historical documents, interview recordings, cultural artifacts, specimens, or if everything you study is digital, we all want to keep our research products safe. Even here at OU Libraries, we've all had close calls that haunt us.