It’s all about people Data-related training experiences from EUDAT, OpenAIRE, DANS Marjan Grootveld, DANS EDISON workshop, 29 August 2017

Certified Long-term Archive DANS: Netherlands Institute for Permanent Access to Digital Research Resources https://dans.knaw.nl EASY Certified Long-term Archive NARCIS Portal aggregating research information and institutional repositories DataverseNL to support data storage during research until 10 years after

DANS is about keeping data FAIR 2 User Reviews 1 Archivist Assessment 24 Downloads FAIRdat Data Assessment Tool: use the FAIRness level of a dataset as proxy for “data quality” or “fitness for (re-)use”. Pilot study and workshop @Open Science FAIR Athens Software sustainability https://www.softwareheritage.org/

DANS is involved in EUDAT training: summer school 2017, community workshops, webinars* OpenAIRE RDM: webinars*, NOADs, national workshops CESSDA, CLARIAH, DARIAH, EHRI, PARTHENOS Essentials 4 Data Support training EUDAT and OpenAIRE are e-infrastructure projects, domain-independent. DANS coordinates training and RDM support, resp. The other research infrastructures and projects mentioned focus on social sciences and humanities. I listed RDA, where DANS staff is involved in for instance WGs or Igs on repository certification and training on handling of research data Together with two other Dutch national service providers we offer a training for data support staff, now in its seventh year And on contract basis we do consultancy on e.g. RDM policy development.

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Lessons learned and good practices 1/2 EUDAT: focus on 2-3 primary training target audiences, e.g. researchers, system administrators & research support staff E4DS training: “going through the motions” is a huge confidence boost for junior data supporters Funders and policy makers (should) want to learn how to get from theory/policy to service adoption: barriers, costs, … Developers are not always the best trainers OpenAIRE: NOADs – i.e. people – are important mediators (multipliers, translators, filters) In EUDAT we had some discussion about target audiences and the skills levels before and after a training. In the end, this three-way distinction works quite well, and we can easily relate it to training formats (webinar, hands-on, interactive presentations). In last year’s report for the Wellcome Trust Kevin used a similar three-way distinction (data scientist / data (or software) manager / research support staff). … The NOADs are not trainers, but in my view essentials nodes in the knowledge network

Lessons learned and good practices 2/2 A simple, abstracted research life cycle is understood in all disciplines Also, it is a good storyline for positioning data services EUDAT content creation workflow: service development > user documentation > training materials And a dilemma: researchers and data supporters want trustworthy services, but don’t want to give up Dropbox, institutional repositories… http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle but with Reusing more prominent, at the same level as Creating. And with this final question I come back at the question about the scope of what we aim for in this WP. Adapted from http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle

Challenges towards Open Science Scaling up: Force ourselves to make trainings and content more reusable (and cost-efficient!) Standards, FAIR learning content? Trainers are interested in certifications and badges, but (potential) students too? Developing cross-domain expertise: “yes, but for us it is different”, “not invented here”  Data sharing culture: Attitude is at least as important as Knowledge and Skills Lack of (knowledge about) domain standards > cross-domain even more challenging… unless we promote generic standards as a Minimal Good Practice https://openbadges.org/ https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/281920/Open-data-report.pdf

Outlook Long-term: shifting trade-off between adoption & implementation of the EDISON recommendations and training goals of projects. Short-term: joint EUDAT and EOSCpilot workshop (proposed) to exchange trainers’ experiences, working towards to the EOSC. marjan.grootveld@dans.knaw.nl