Education and training on handling of research data in IG

Type of resource: Toolkit: guide and set of resources
Languages: English
Expert entity: Research Data Alliance
Status: Under development
Description

The objective of this IG is the exchange of information about existing developments and initiatives and promotion of training/education to manage research data throughout the data lifecycle. Concretely, it will make the case for creating taxonomies of the skills required by different group of data management specialists/professionals and elaborating reference models as a basis to enable the setting of quality standards for appropriate education and training programmes aimed at researchers and the professionals that support them, at all career stages, encourage the recognition of data skills amongst employees, employers, and professional bodies and prepare the ground for practical applications applying these standards in educational environments.