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Group(s) submitting the application: Engaging Researchers with Data IG
Meeting objectives:
This meeting adopts the World Café concept to organise an interactive session on research data management in a relaxed atmosphere. It aims to collaboratively explore the data landscape and future of research data management support, communities, and engagement activities.
Our publication “Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook” collected lessons learnt worldwide and transformed them into innovative use cases with clear guidance for their effective execution. With nearly 8.000 downloads, the cookbook proved popular in Open Science communities through its alignment with the paradigm shift towards a research culture that promotes transparency, collaboration, diversity, integrity, interdisciplinarity and reproducibility. We currently seek to expand our work to accommodate different contexts and the needs of different stakeholders involved in researchers’ engagement. As we explore our options to proceed with the publication of a second edition or revised format for our Cookbook, we welcome professionals to share their experiences in organising engagement activities, especially answering the often-overlooked question of “what didn’t work / what went wrong”.
During our P22 meeting, there will be an introduction to the group and a brief overview of the work done so far, including updates on new Cookbook developments and collaborations. The main part of the session is foreseen for group discussions within the community of RDM practitioners and support staff, cultivating a space for knowledge sharing, collective exploration, and action at policy, technical, and operational levels. More specifically, each group will propose a real use case and work together to set up engagement activities, basing the answer on their own experience and existing case studies while taking into consideration the roles of different stakeholders involved throughout the process. Facilitated by the co-chairs, this process will both inform participants of existing engagement strategies and highlight gaps that should be targeted in a new cookbook.
Meeting agenda:
- Welcome (5 min)
- Overview of current activities (15 min)
- Second version of the Cookbook – new developments.
- Improving Data Engagement and Advocacy (IDEA) Podcast – new episodes and future plans
- Focus group discussions (50 min)
- Reporting (15 min)
- Closing remarks (5min)
Target Audience:
This session is relevant to anyone supporting research data management at their institution or research infrastructure.
- Librarian, data manager, data steward, or archivist—to discuss ways of exchanging best practices and discuss gaps in resources.
- Researcher or student who wants to change practices among their peers—to discuss gaps or hurdles that prevent you from engaging with research data management or share success stories.
- Information and Communication Technology support role—to discuss how you can support researcher engagement at your institution with services.
- Institutional leadership, legal, administrative or financial role—to discuss how you can support researchers and encourage an environment of research data management at your institution.
- Funder, policy maker, publisher or member of the commercial sector—to share expectations of how researcher engagement with research data management fulfils policy and commercial goals.
Group chair serving as contact person: James Savage
Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group:
The Engaging Researchers with Data IG facilitates the exchange of best practice and innovative methods around engaging researchers with research data. The group originated from a working group under the Libraries for Research Data IG that collected case studies on how institutions effectively engage researchers with data. This project resulted in the publication ‘Engaging Researchers with Research Data: The Cookbook’ in late 2019; this IG was formally established in 2020 as a continuation of this work. Since then, it has continued to collect case studies and has produced another engagement output in the form of a podcast.
Short Group Status:
The objective of this group is to exchange best practices on how to effectively engage with researchers about research data and develop resources to help research organisations increase engagement with researchers. Since its endorsement in April 2020, the group has met regularly at Plenaries, recognising that these are key moments to engage and connect with professionals and other group members. Additionally, this Interest Group is actively working on the collection of case studies on engagement of researchers with data which it shapes and communicates in different forms, such as the Cookbook and the podcast series.
Type of Meeting: Working meeting
Additional links to informative material:
- Charter of the Engaging Researchers with Data Interest Group
- Deliverable: Engaging Researchers with Research Data: The Cookbook
- Podcast: IDEA: Improving Data Engagement and Advocacy (Shannon Sheridan, Briana Wham)
- Presentations at P13; P14; P16; P17; P19, P21.
- Joint session at P20.
- Blog post: RDA Engaging Researchers With Research Data: Peeping Through The Team’s Activities (Elli Papadopoulou)
- Blog post: Researcher Engagement With Data Management – What works? (Maria Cruz)
- Blog post: Book Sprint Success: A Team Writing Exercise For The Win (Connie Clare)
- Dedicated Birds of a Feather sessions at P14 and P15
- Webinar: Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (James Savage, Connie Clare, Raman Ganguly)
- Webinar: RDA for Research Data Management (RDM) Support and Education (Shannon Sheridan, James Savage)
Avoid conflict with the following group (1): PID IG
Avoid conflict with the following group (2): Working with PIDs in Tools IG
Meeting presenters: IG co-chairs will provide an introduction to the group and the topic. We will issue an open call to the IG members to put together the panel of speakers on the key meeting topic.
Are you willing to host a second, repeat, session at a different time zone?: Yes