Capacity building and training in datastewardship in ELIXIR
Creators: name: Gelder, Celia W.G. Van
name: Staiger, Christine
name: Jetten, Mijke
name: Scholtens, Salome
name: Botzki, Alexander
name: Krause, Roland
name: Pinar Alper
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: <b>The need for building Data Stewardship Capacity </b><br>In the past years, it has become clear that there is a large need for and shortage in individuals with data stewardship (DS) expertise available within research organizations. The challenge to establish sufficient data steward expertise is felt in all research domains, transcends the institute and the national level and is also high on the EOSC Training &amp; Skills agenda. For this reason, ELIXIR Training has been working in several projects in a synergistic fashion to increase data stewardship capacity in the ELIXIR Nodes. <br>The projects are tailored to tackle important aspects of capacity building in Data Stewardship and the project outcomes will also function as a good starting point for the Training Work Package (WP2) of ELIXIR-CONVERGE. ELIXIR-CONVERGE will start in February 2020 and the overall objective of the Training WP is to build a comprehensive, interconnected and sustainable ELIXIR Training and Capacity building programme in Data Stewardship across all Nodes. <br><br><b>Defining the competencies and skills needed for data stewardship</b><br>In a project funded by ZonMw and ELIXIR-NL we have delivered a community endorsed description of responsibilities and tasks of three roles of data stewards (policy-, research- and infrastructure-oriented, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3243909). In addition, competencies and KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities) and learning objectives (including Bloom’s level) have been formulated (https://zenodo.org/communities/nl-ds-pd-ls/). The work is being continued from September 2019 in the context of the National Programme Open Science (NPOS) of the Netherlands in the project “Professionalizing education and training on open science and data stewardship”.<br><br><b>Developing and delivering data stewardship training</b><br>In several projects (ELIXIR Implementation Study “Data Stewardship in ELIXIR”, Helis Academy (Interreg https://helisacademy.com/en)) ELIXIR-NL and ELIXIR-LU have been developed and delivering Data Stewardship Courses. All materials are setup in a modular fashion and include a DOI, to make reuse by other ELIXIR Nodes possible.<br><br><b>Make all ELIXIR Data stewardship training materials findable in TeSS.</b><br>Efforts have been aligned in two Implementation Studies of the Training Platform. In the Data Stewardship I.S. a Node Inventory has been performed by ELIXIR-NL to get insights in the data stewardship training materials that are available for reuse in the ELIXIR Nodes. In the Learning Paths I.S. ELIXIR-Belgium has taken the role of annotating the DS/DM Courses in TeSS.<br><br><b>Community building: Datastewards Interest Group</b><br>In 2017 ELIXIR-NL/DTL has started the Datastewards Interest Group, which now is an active group of national and international data stewards, that come together regularly and discuss and share their challenges and best practices.<br>In the presentation we will touch on all these aspects and also on the relevance of this work in the context of ELIXIR-CONVERGE and EOSC.