Experiences with a training DSW knowledge model for early-stage researchers.

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Date publication

juin 2023

Journal

Open research Europe

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr DEVIGNES Marie-Dominique

Tous les auteurs :
Devignes MD, Smaïl-Tabbone M, Dhondge H, Dolcemascolo R, Gavaldá-García J, Higuera-Rodriguez RA, Kravchenko A, Roca Martínez J, Messini N, Pérez-Ràfols A, Pérez Ropero G, Sperotto L, Chauvot de Beauchêne I, Vranken W

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37645489

Résumé

: Data management is fast becoming an essential part of scientific practice, driven by open science and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data sharing requirements. Whilst data management plans (DMPs) are clear to data management experts and data stewards, understandings of their purpose and creation are often obscure to the producers of the data, which in academic environments are often PhD students. : Within the RNAct EU Horizon 2020 ITN project, we engaged the 10 RNAct early-stage researchers (ESRs) in a training project aimed at formulating a DMP. To do so, we used the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) framework and modified the existing Life Sciences Knowledge Model into a simplified version aimed at training young scientists, with computational or experimental backgrounds, in core data management principles. We collected feedback from the ESRs during this exercise. : Here, we introduce our new life-sciences training DMP template for young scientists. We report and discuss our experiences as principal investigators (PIs) and ESRs during this project and address the typical difficulties that are encountered in developing and understanding a DMP. : We found that the DS-wizard can also be an appropriate tool for DMP training, to get terminology and concepts across to researchers. A full training in addition requires an upstream step to present basic DMP concepts and a downstream step to publish a dataset in a (public) repository. Overall, the DS-Wizard tool was essential for our DMP training and we hope our efforts can be used in other projects.