Presentations from the LIBER 2013 workshop on Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures: : 'New Horizons for Open Access Policies in Europe' and 'Ten Recommendations on Research Data Management - What's Next?'

1. Ten Recommendations on Research Data
Management - What's Next?
Scientific Information Infrastructures (SII) Working Group
Munich, LIBER Conference, 2013, June 26
Rob Grim
Chair of the SII Working Group
Head of Research Support/Research Data Specialist
Library & IT Services
e-mail: rob.grim@uvt.nl

2. Aim of this workshop: Inform & Engage
 Brief introduction to the SII working group
 Working plan & working group members
 Starting point: 10 recommendations for libraries to get started with
Research Data Management (RDM)
 How to proceed with these recommendations?
 Introduce our speakers

3.  Mr Wolfram Horstmann, Bodleian Library Oxford, UK
 Ms Jūratė Kuprienė, Vilnius University Library, Lithuania
 Ms Natalia Grygierczyk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
 Mr Ayhan Kaygusuz, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey
 Mr Esa-Pekka Keskitalo, National Library of Finland, Finland
 Ms Annikki Roos, Viikki Campus Library, Helsinki, Finland
 Mr Frank Scholze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 Mr Paolo Budroni, Library of the University of Vienna, Austria
 Mr Rob Grim, (Chair)Tilburg University, The Netherlands
 Mr Jeroen Rombouts, 3TU.Datacentrum, The Netherlands
 Ms Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, (Co-Chair) The Royal Library, Denmark
 Ms Birgit Schmidt, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
SII working group members:

4. How to proceed with the 10 recommendations?
 3 activity areas:
 Gather and present practical information on RDM support.
 Articulate - from a technical perspective -, the role of the libraries, taking
into account strategic, operational and technical issues.
 Identify and describe the skills sets and profiles relevant to RDM support in
academic libraries.
 3 speakers:
 Jeroen Rombouts (3TU.Datacentrum): Collaboration and services
 Wolfram Horstmann (Oxford University): Policies and infrastructure
 Rob Grim (Tilburg University): Skilling the workforce

5. Re-Skilling the workforce
 Is it necessary?
Libraries see RDM services as a priority, with a particular emphasis on
advisory, policy support and training services (Pinfield & Cox, 2013)
Little effort is put into developing skill sets relevant to support e-
Science: curation, automated capture and tool development (Hey, 2009.)
In some of the libraries, some of the staff, have some of the relevant
skills…
 Questions for the audience:
 Do you have people working on RDM support?
 Are these people coming from a library or computer science / IT
background?

6. Re-Skilling the Workforce: What to expect from us?
 Information on how to do it...
 Resources:
Harvard: Data Scientist Training for Librarians Course.
Other: DCC, Data Intelligence four Librarians,etc.
 Case studies on RDM support and share lessons learned:
Oxford, Tilburg University, 3TU, Göttingen, Bielefeld
 Guidance on hard and soft skills (and how to make use of them)
Data scientists or data librarians?
 Guidance on data management plans and institutional RDM policy plans
 Formal education and profiles of data professionals: academic curriculum,
LIS schools, job descriptions relevant to LiBER community.

7. Discussion
Engage with the LIBER community …