Bringing discipline specificity to a generic research data management workshop concept

Abstract

Research funders have increasing requirements for research data management (RDM). Given that research data (RD) is generated in a discipline-specific context, RDM must follow suit. General-purpose RD centres have thus turned to specialist institutions or libraries such as ZB MED to bring discipline-specific content to their general training offer. As a result, we developed a training workshop on RDM in (bio-)medicine for researchers to be conducted jointly with RD centres from German universities with a medical faculty. RD centres cover general aspects of RDM and introduce their local infrastructure and services; ZB MED complements this with (bio-)medicine-specific aspects of RDM, introduces ZB MED services and presents results from the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) consortia we are part of. In this context, open educational resources (OERs) were created to support researchers in handling their data. The details of the workshop outlined in the article and the free licensing enable transferability to other disciplines and NFDI consortia.

Keywords

• research data management
• rdm
• training
• national research data infrastructure
• nfdi
• bio-medicine
• medicine
• specialist libraries
• engagement methods