Network Starter Kit for professional networks: data steward

Q2 2023
  • Skills, training, rewards, recognition
    • Skills and training
  • Result description

    The Starter Kit provides support for the creation of new professional and sustainable communities. Professional communities play a key role in the context of Skills4EOSC Competence Centre network as they are seen as a tool for lifelong learning through peers.

    Problem addressed

    The starter kit addresses the challenges related to the emergence of data stewardship as a professional identity within Open Science and Open Data initiatives. It helps in defining responsibilities, roles, and skills for data stewards, facilitates the formation of data steward communities, and provides guidance on organizing and sustaining these communities. It also draws from different community organization models and references social psychology and management theory to support effective team building.

    Who can use the result

    All of EOSC and more generally Open Science (OS) stakeholders.

    How to use the result

    The Starter Kit is open to reuse for all the EOSC community and more generally Open Science (OS) stakeholders and Competence Centes.

    Type of result