Current practices around RDM training in Europe

Jens Nieschulze, University of Göttingen, on behalf of

RD working group

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Knowledge-ExchangeVision: to enable open scholarship

two areas of particular focus:

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Knowledge-ExchangeVision: to enable open scholarship

two areas of particular focus:

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Landscapeo FOSTER: Open Science Training 2015 o Monash University: Research data skills developmento DCC: Digital Curation Trainingo University of Edinburgh: Research Data Management Trainingo Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RDLIS) (2013): Helping to open upo University of Cambridge: Training Resourceso JISC: Research Data Management Trainingo Nestor: Training and education in digital long term preservationo GESIS: Training Center CESSDAo RIN: Research Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI)o DigCurV: Digital Curator Vocational Education Europeo Australian National University: Training and resourceso Purdue University: Supporting Information for Data Serviceso FH Potsdam: Postgraduate Master Degree Course "Information Science MA”o 1st WP5 Training course for data curators at GFBio Collection Data Centerso Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication by COAR, ARL, CARL and LIBERo …

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Training

Who What

Why How

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Training

Who What

Why How

Survey&

Workshop

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The survey• NOT representative• ~24 questions• Dec 10, 2015 - Jan 15, 2016• 103 valid responses • DE 56% • NL 16 %• UK 10%• FIN 8%• DK 6%

• UK underrepresented

The Data:http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6379/13/KE_Training_%26_Skills_ Survey_Dec_2015_Raw_data_-_all_responses.xlsx http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6379/14/KE_Training_%26_Skills_ Survey_Dec_2015_Tidied_data_-_individual_responses.xlsx

The workshop• 9th & 10th Feb, 2016• 30 participants (+5 KE)• 8 presentations on practices and

experiences• 2-4 discussion sessions

Aim: sharing successful approaches to RDM training and capacity building

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Survey: some numbers– Trainers: curators/librarians [55%] &| researchers [44%]

– Trainees: PhD students [~90%] & postdocs [~70%]

– Duration: less than 2 days [~90%] (18% only a few hours)

– Objectives: change practice and/or behaviour [~70%]

– Impact: Awareness [~20%]; changes in practice [~20%]

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Survey: some insights– Materials geared for institutions– On site, face2face– Building awareness– Need to address concrete problems– Systematic discrepancy between trainers’ expectations

and feelings expressed by those being trained

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Survey: Areas for improvement (open question)

less than 6% are content

…

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Insight/Workshop

Researchers tend not to perceive a need for training except when driven by […] mandates or expectations of funders

Do you measure a growing interest in training?

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Insight/Workshop

Researchers tend not to perceive a need for training except when driven by […] mandates or expectations of funders

Start with making researchers realise that RDM is both professionally relevant and important, use carrots, not sticks

Success and impact criteria evolving

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Recurring themes: Tailor to researchers’ needs Bottom-up approach Appreciate varied way data is perceived Providing training in a timely fashion Adapt language of RDM to respective discipline Understand and know relevant research environments

Hands-on approaches/real-life case studies Exercises, exercises, practical and relevant exercises

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What curricula, methods,… can be shared?

Sustainable registry of information on training resources needed

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Thank you for your attention!