Der Zertifikatskurs Forschungsdatenmanagement in NRW

Eine modular aufgebaute Weiterqualifikation für das professionelle Datenmanagement

Abstract

The digitalisation has the potential to significantly increase the quality and efficiency in all fields of research and thus its value to society. Trained staff to support researchers is needed to enable and shape these processes. The key to a consistent implementation of open science and FAIR principles at research institutions, universities and initiatives such as the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) or the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is professional research data management, which entails not only technical infrastructure but also staff with a wide range of expertise – from metadata standards to domain-specific conventions. Due to the demand across the research community, such experts working at the intersection of research and infrastructure are currently available in insufficient numbers. In order to train people specifically for these roles, the Certificate Course in Research Data Management was developed by TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), the ZBIW – Zentrum für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung, ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften and fdm.nrw – Landesinitiative für Forschungsdatenmanagement NRW. The first run of this programme was launched in summer 2021 and will end in summer 2022. This article will look in detail at the objectives, design and future of the certificate course.