Organisation
Health-RI Data Stewardship Community
The Health-RI Data Stewardship Community (DSC) is a community hub for health and life sciences data stewards that facilitates sharing experiences and collaboration.
Data stewardship is a relatively new profession that emerged to support researchers in data handling before, during and after a research project. For example, data stewards are trained to make data as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) as possible and to advise researchers on data sharing. With the support of data stewards, data becomes more sustainable and remains valuable after a research project ends.
The Health-RI Data Stewardship Community aims to:
- Accelerate the implementation of data stewardship in health care and life sciences institutes
- Share experiences between data stewards across the health care and life sciences domain
- Join forces to tackle cross-domain and cross-institutional problems together
The DSC meetings are organised supplementary to the cross-disciplinary Data Stewards Interest Group (DSIG) meetings, to offer health and life sciences data stewards the opportunity to jointly discuss topics and share experiences specific for their domain.
Get involved
The next meeting will be scheduled soon.
Are you a data steward working in the health or life sciences domain? Sign up to become a member of the Health-RI DSC and receive updates on meetings and other activities.
Previous meetings:
- 2023-09-11 Shared notes
- 2023-04-20 Shared notes
- 2023-03-13 Shared notes
Also take a look at the DSIG meetings.
The Health-RI DSC is facilitated by Fieke Schoots and Mijke Jetten (Health-RI). Feel free to contact us to learn more about the Health-RI DSC or if you want to collaborate.
We unite health care and life sciences data stewards for fruitful national collaborations, so we do not have to reinvent the wheel at each institute.
Relevance
Especially in the present era of data-driven health research, data stewards are a fundamental part of research support in health care and life sciences institutes. In the Health-RI DSC, we bring these individuals together.
Mode of Operation & governance structure
By the community, for the community. The DSC organises bi-monthly meetings in which shared topics are discussed, experiences are exchanged and collaborations are sought.
Related initiatives and communities
There is a close collaboration between the Health-RI DSC and the following data stewardship community initiatives:
- Handbook for Adequate Natural Data Stewardship (HANDS) Guidelines on data stewardship and practical toolbox for researchers at Dutch University Medical Centres (UMCs)
- Data Stewards Interest Group (DSIG)
- Pool of Experts LCRDM (LCRDM), including the Digital Competence Center Implementation Network
- TDCC Life Sciences and Health
- NPOS FAIR data programme
- ELIXIR-CONVERGE data management network
- Research Data Alliance, including the Professionalising Data Stewardship Interest Group (PDS IG)
- VODAN Data stewardship Implementation Network, in collaboration with the Data Stewardship Competence Centers (DSCC)
Current activities
- On 4 April 2023 we co-organise a workshop on Data Stewards Job Profiles: Build and Sustain Capacity for FAIR Implementation
- In November 2022, we organised an ETH Knowledge Exchange Workshop on FAIR implementation
- In October 2022, a Focus meeting on Text mining in EPDs was organised
- In March 2021, we organised a breakout session at the #healthri2021conference
- Also in March 2021, a focus meeting on data publishing and archiving was organised
- In May and June 2021, three data stewardship training days were co-organised by the Health-RI DSC. Topics of the training days are: engagement, reproducible project workflow and the role of RDM in accelerating scientific progress