Since 2016, the Professionalising Data Stewardship Interest Group (RDA-PDS-IG) has fostered volunteer teams to advance global research community priorities. Simultaneously, national and regional efforts were formed such as the EOSC Data Stewardship Task Forces on Data Stewardship curricula and career paths.
In this session, active efforts will share brief updates about their data stewardship related work plans, highlighting recent outputs and upcoming opportunities for consultation or collaboration. Then PDS-IG Co-Chairs will facilitate small-group discussions in virtual break-out rooms to explore potential collaborative work packages that could be achieved through PDS related working groups from 2022-2023.
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QLC0Yrf3tDBjQNl7KiE3WEtIVDzAwrdn7Zqp...
Time |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
15 min |
Welcome, introduction to Data Stewardship topic, PDS-IG History, Co-Chairs and Task Group Leads
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PDS IG Co-Chairs |
30 min |
Invited effort reports, noting objective(s), outputs, upcoming opportunities for collaboration (5 min/3 slides per speaker)
PDS Group updates - lightning talks:
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Task team leads |
5 min |
Global overview of the state of data stewardship |
Guest speaker (Stefaan Verhulst invited) |
30 min |
Thematic small-group virtual room breakout ideation and discussion: identify potential working groups and/or collaborative next steps. Discussion prompts:
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All |
10 min |
Full Group Session Wrap up:
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PDS IG Co-Chairs |
Total: 90mins |
This Interest Group brings together those interested in professionalising data stewardship and who are actively developing informing data stewardship models, training and practice. This session is most relevant to funders and policy-makers interested in fostering data stewardship practices at a national and global scale, those managing or developing data stewardship programs, scholars of data stewardship, and research data stewards. This session may be of interest to the broader data professional community, including data librarians, data managers, data scientists, data archivists, IT staff, research support staff, managers and executives. Future data stewards are welcome.
Overview: Data stewardship and data management are essential research skills. The lack of consensus on the responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and value of data stewards leads to confusion about how data stewardship complements data management. Unclear professional standards and models for data stewardship also hamper the development of a trained, data steward workforce for research institutions. A shared body of knowledge (BOK) for data stewardship professionals has yet to emerge, although dedicated trainings for data stewards are occuring. The various types of data stewardship model are not yet well understood, nor are the unique needs of data stewards as compared to data managers and data privacy professionals who have access to global community supported BOKs, professional networks, and events through associations such as DAMA-I and the IAPP.
Scope: With scarce resources to support data stewardship at many institutions, this RDA Interest Group aims to host discussions, support inter-agency collaboration, and foster global teams developing resources that aid in the development, recruitment, and training of data stewards.
Activity History: After BoF sessions at P14, P15, the RDA-PDS-IG was formally endorsed just after VP16. From 2016-2021, eight areas of interest were identified and advanced by IG members. Progress made in each area varied based on volunteer capacity, interest, and commitment. Initial topics of interest included: 1) a business case for data stewardship, 2) data stewardship terminology, 3) the integration of data stewardship across an organisation, 4) data steward job profiles, 5) training, 6) career tracks, 7) networking and knowledge exchange, and 8) certification. Task group activity occurs between plenaries with varying success depending on the capacity of task team members.
IG Communications and Engagement: Active group leads and RDA-PDS-IG Co-Chairs meet regularly for progress updates and plenary session planning. Plenary meetings will continue to allow for new members to join. Between Plenaries, RDA-PDS-IG Co-Chairs communicate updates to the public through the RDA Interest Group webpage posts and events (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/professionalising-data-stewardship-ig). Regular community-wide communications occur in the open RDA-PDS-IG Slack community and it’s sub-channels for focused work efforts (rdadatastewardship.slack.com). Knowledge sharing also is encouraged through a developing RDA-PDS-IG Zenodo Community (https://zenodo.org/communities/rda-pds-ig/).
In recognition of the volunteer commitment necessary to develop such materials for the RDA community, and waxing and waning volunteer engagement, in 2021 the RDA-PDS-IG Co-Chairs refocused effort on three task teams: business use case for data stewardship, data stewardship models, and data stewardship training. In this session, these teams will share their first deliverables.
To increase collaborations with other global data stewardship efforts, Co-Chairs have also been actively meeting with other aligned efforts. At VP19, the RDA-PDS-IG aims to increase awareness of these parallel efforts and explore ways to collaborate across efforts. The IG will also aim to support the spin-off of RDA working groups for deliverable creation, to better support task teams through focused 18 month work-cycles and additional work-session availability at future plenaries.
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PDS IG webpage
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PDS IG slack channel
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PDS IG charter
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RDA-PDS-IG Zenodo Community (https://zenodo.org/communities/rda-pds-ig/)
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Link to P14 session
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Link to VP15 session
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Link to VP16 session
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Link to VP17 session
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