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HeFDI Data Week 2025
Data Stewards in Action! June 24th, 2025
Description
Key Questions
Program
Registration
First held in 2020 as the HeFDI Plenary and continuously developed since then, the HeFDI Data Week is a permanent annual event organized by the HeFDI network. This year, we offer a Live-Event in Frankfurt focussing of Data Stewards active in research Groups and research projects all across Hessen.
Description
The “Data Stewards in Action” workshop will take place on June 24, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Goethe-University Frankfurt. It offers an opportunity for research data management (RDM) professionals in Hessian universities and research institutions to share best practices, develop solutions, and expand their professional networks.
Data stewards play an important role in assisting researchers as they make their way through the complex RDM services and policies as well as the various infrastructures. This workshop is conceived as an interactive forum through which participants will be able to discuss best practices, identify problems and come up with solutions to the challenges facing data stewardship in the region. Using discussions and networking sessions as well as other interactive formats, the participants will get practical understanding of the current developments in the responsibilities of data stewards and the support available at the institutional and national level.
The program includes spaces for knowledge-sharing such as a poster session and a “Minute Madness” session where attendees can exchange ideas. A World Café will offer a chance to discuss in detail topics such as the definitions of roles, successful strategies for implementation and alignment with service centers facilitating a practical discussion on the realities of data stewardship.
Participants will also learn about resources provided by HeFDI, the NFDI, and local service centers, which will help to promote a more coherent and efficient approach to research data management.
No matter how long you have been working as a data steward, this workshop will help you improve your skills, exchange experiences and engage with other data stewards from Hesse.
The event will be held in English.
Further information on the program and registration details will be announced soon. For inquiries, please contact forschungsdaten@ub.uni-frankfurt.de.
Key Questions
- What are the goals, roles and tasks of data stewards? What are the specific needs?
- What specific support services are available (local, HeFDI, NFDI)?
- How do the data stewards wish to cooperate with, but also differentiate themselves from, local service centers and central services?
- What good practice and success stories can be identified?
Fees
Participation in the event is free of charge.
As soon as publications will be available, we will document them here
Tuesday, 24th June 2025
| Topic | Speaker, chair, participants | |
| 08.30 - 09.00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09.00 - 09.15 | Opening Session | |
| 09.15 - 09.45 | Your local Service Centers for RDM, HeFDI and NFDI - benefits for your Data Stewardship | |
| 09.45 - 10.15 | Minute Madness | Everyone presenting a poster is invited to promote his/her poster within one minute to the audience |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Networking Session with Coffee | |
| 10.30-11.30 | Poster Session I | The first half of the posters are presented an will be discussed |
| 11.30-12.30 | Poster Session II | The second half of the posters are presented an will be discussed |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.30-15.00 |
World Café: (1) Identity and understanding of roles (2) Success stories and best practices (3) Challenges and problems (4) General needs, concerns and requests for HeFDI and local service centers |
On our world café tables, we discuss the data stewards' generic and specific needs and topics in depth |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Networking Session with Coffee |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 |
WrapUp: Core results of the World Cafe tables, outlook and farewell |
