Improving Data Quality through Data Stewardship: An emerging Community of Data Stewards in Germany

Improving Data Quality through Data Stewardship: An emerging Community of Data Stewards in Germany Jens Dierkes Daniela Hausen for Data Stewards Germany E-Science-Tage 2025 - Heidelberg - 14.3.2025 The why & how of a national community of data stewards ➢Many activities on RDM & data stewardship ○NFDI, Section EduTrain ○DINI/nestor AG Forschungsdaten ○Data Competence Centers ○Federal State Initiatives, … ➢Lack of ○a clear definition of a data steward ○integration of data stewards into research teams ○professionalisation ○career tracks ○institutional strategic awareness "Scattered puzzle pieces next to solved fragment" by Horia Varlan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. ➢Realisation: there is much more than just sharing experiences and knowing other fellows The why & how of a national community of data stewards ★Data Stewardship in RDM 2020 ★DataStew project 2022 ★Data Stewardship goes Germany (DSgG) 2022, 23, 24 ★SFB-INF workshop 2024 → Community building exercise at DSgG 24 based on community canvas → Three active working groups emerged https://community-canvas.org/ Yellow pages & communication Goals: ●Virtual space for stewards to communicate ●Easy access ●Community-driven Needs: ●Involvement of members with a technical interest Contact: [email protected] Data Stewards Germany Vision Data Stewardship as a strategic cross-cutting priority in the research ecosystem ●Co-Creation ●Transparency ●Drive cultural change ●Professional Development: Strong national networking and beyond ●Sustainability Contact: [email protected] Challenges Exchange about common challenges, such as those related to ●Roles/ def. of Data Stewards ●Infrastructure & providers ●Internal communication ●Cultural change ●Finding RDM resources & get researchers to use tools ●Reaching people ●Legal questions ●… Contact: [email protected] Mailinglist dataste[email protected] with already > 100 members Please join! Mailinglist Contact: datastewar[email protected] Jens Dierkes University of Cologne [email protected] Daniela Hausen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf [email protected] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0