FAIR data, data stewardship and research data management under the umbrella of UM open science

This presentation explains the different aspects of FAIR data, data stewardship (DS) and research data management (RDM) and how those topics related to the overall all endorsement of Open Science at Maastricht University (UM). Moreover, it provides a guidance for data stewards on how to support researchers in making their data FAIR and providing support in data storage, organization, archiving and sharing.

Topics mentioned in the presentations:

• UM Open Science
• The FAIR principles
• Benefits of FAIR
• FAIR data stewardship
• Professionalizing FAIR Data Stewardship in the life sciences: defining job criteria & skills
• Data Stewards Competence Areas
• Glossary of research data definitions
• The Research Data Management portal at UM
• Data Management Plan (DMP)
• Data discovery and collection
• Data processing and sharing
  • Data formats, structuring and organization
  • Storage and backup
  • Data sharing
• Data Publishing & Archiving
  • Data archiving (Deposit in a repository / register in registry)
  • Use persistent identifiers
  • Use licenses
  • Long term storage