The document outlines a course on Research Data Management (RDM), targeting IT professionals, librarians, and researchers amid an evolving landscape in scholarship and data use. It includes a structured workshop curriculum covering the basics of data, data management plans, practical RDM services, researchers' perspectives, and case studies. The course aims to address the challenges of data management, sharing, and preservation while providing practical resources and training for participants.

1. Introduction to the course
May-15
Learning material produced by RDMRose
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/projects/rdmrose
Research Data Management

2. Why RDM?
• New area of multi-professional practice: involving
IT professionals, information security, records
managers, librarians, research support staff… and
researchers
– Area of job growth
• Fascinating area of change in scholarship
– Changing nature of data use and its impact on
scholars
– Specific information management challenges: data
management… data sharing… data preservation
May-15
Learning material produced by RDMRose
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/projects/rdmrose

3. Course outline
Workshop 1: Introduction
• 1.1 The basics: what is data, policy context, LIS role
• 1.2 The nature of research
• 1.3 Looking at data
• 1.4 The data lifecycle
• 1.5 Data Management Plans
• 1.6 Research Data Services: introduction
Workshop 2: Services
• 2.1 International institutional service survey data results
• 2.2 Practical RDM
• 2.3 Institutional data repository policies
• 2.4 Designing library web pages
• 2.5 Metadata and data citation
• 2.6 Interviewing a researcher
Workshop 3: Researchers’ perspectives
• 3.1 DAF surveys
• 3.2 Open data and advocacy
• 3.3 Training researchers
• 3.4 Online training materials
Workshop 4: Putting it altogether
• 4.1 An institutional case study
• 4.2 RDM as a Wicked Problem
• 4.3 Review of the workshops
• 4.4 Resources for further study
• Practical – hands on
with real
documents/data
• Discussion where there
are open ended issues
• Some “homework” but
it will be useful stuff!
May-15
Learning material produced by RDMRose
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/projects/rdmrose

4. The URL…
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/projects/rdmrose
An Open Educational Resource on RDM
tailored for information professionals