Examples of research data include:

• Documents (text and word)
• Spreadsheets
• Laboratory notebooks
• Field Notebooks
• Diaries
• Questionnaires
• Transcripts
• Codebooks
• Audiotapes
• Videotapes
• Photographs
• Films
• Test responses
• Slides
• Artefacts
• Specimens
• Samples
• Collection of digital objects acquired and generated during the process of research
• Data files
• Database contents (video, audio, text, images)
• Models
• Algorithms
• Scripts
• Contents of an application
  • Input
  • Output
  • Logfiles for analysis software
  • Simulation software
  • Schemas
• Methodologies and workflows
• Standard operating procedures and protocols.