1. EOSCpilot Skills Landscape & Framework
All Hands Pisa - March 2018
Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre
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2. Skills Framework - Overview
Why link competences, skills, and capabilities?
Why competences for stewardship and how are these defined?
How do competences relate to capabilities that research teams and organisations (institutions) need for the EOSC environment, regardless of the particular service?
And how do they relate to skills to use, build, provide services?

3. Why link competences, skills, capabilities, services?
To “…establish the capabilities that organisations need to develop and reflect in the career development pathways of researchers and support service staff; and the skills needed by individuals to enhance their competencies
in open data science and stewardship.“
WP7 Objectives in EOSCpilot Description of Work

4. Why stewardship competences?
“An important aspect of the EOSC is… professional data management and long term data stewardship.”
A Cloud on the 2020 Horizon, EOSC HLEG
“The necessary skills and education in research data management, data stewardship and data science should be provided throughout the EU …”
“Researchers need the support of adequately trained data stewards”
EOSC Declaration, European Commission D-G Research & Innovation

5. Defining stewardship
“Formalisation of roles and responsibilities to ensure that research objects are managed in accordance with FAIR principles and for long-term reuse”
= Data and software management competences to integrate open research + data science

6. Competences from existing models
EDISON competence groups for Data Management (DM) Data Science Engineering (DSENG) Data Science Analytics (DSDA) Domain Science/ Research Methods (DSRM).
RDA Education & Training in Data Handling IG Competences for researchers, RI managers and research librarians
Data Information Literacy (Purdue University Libraries) Division between individual, team and organisation
Skills Framework for Information Age – Defines competences according to level of responsibility

7. Responsibility shared among professional groups
Domain research
Data science & analytics
Data management & curation
Data science engineering
stewardship 7
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8. Competences
Applied in project specific ways across the data lifecycle or in generic ways across projects

9. One skills group for example
Advise and enable
Building cross-sector collaborations
Communication & negotiation
Tools and standards awareness
User support and training
Personnel development
Standards body participation
Data rescue
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10. Use cases for the framework
“What skills should we acquire given the capabilities we need and services we plan to use?”
Describe capabilities – relate to e.g. job descriptions
Specify skills – for individual training needs
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11. How do these competences relate to organisational capabilities?
1) General description of the capability
E.g. “Implement FAIR and Open Principles”
“FAIR principles of data are applied across the organisation to improve data findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability for humans and machines. In addition to FAIR, the organisation implements OA policy to improve research transparency and to lower the reuse barriers for scientific information.”

12. How do these competences relate to organisational capabilities?
2) Capability applied at central service or research team level
Organisation: resources FAIR and OA policy, advocates and enables FAIR and OA policies within the organisation
Team: Makes sure that data is interoperable across the team, the data is securely archived after the project completion and available to new researchers; motivates FAIR and OA practices among colleagues

13. How do these competences relate to organisational capabilities?
2) Then linked to levels of individual competence
Comprehend: has knowledge about FAIR sub principles, knows various policy, legal and ethical aspect of data collection, analysis, storage and reuse, knows various OA policies   

14. How do these competences relate to organisational capabilities?
2) Then linked to levels of individual competence   
Apply: applies the FAIR and OA policy according to standards of own domain, to publication in OA journals and to other forms of research output including for non-academic groups and citizens

15. How do these competences relate to organisational capabilities?
2) Then linked to levels of individual competence
Synthesise and evaluate: peer reviews the research quality within his/her domain, updates the strategy to the changing technological level within the domain

16. Sample job descriptions
Illustrate variety of contexts
Which professional groups would have what level of responsibility for delivering the capability
Using EDISON profiles for professional groups for reference

17. Skills user stories
“As a data manager using a repository service, I need to be able to evaluate repository certification schemes”
Descriptors for competences and levels that a professional group needs to perform a service role for a service

18. Summary - Stewardship Skills Framework
competences
capabilities
skills
Aiming to help organisations and individuals identify skills they should acquire given the capabilities they have and need, and services they will use
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19. Summary - Stewardship Skills Framework
competences
capabilities
skills
Due M18
For HR people
For anyone wanting to lean about EOSC
Is the approach usable and useful?
bit.ly/Pisa-Skills