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

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

3. 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 Science FAIR Athens
Software sustainability

4. 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.

5. OpenAIRE.eu 50 Partners from every EU country, and beyond
4 project phases since 2010
Legal entity in 2017

6. EUDAT.eu

7. 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

8. 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…
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.
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9. 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

10. 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.