Key characteristics of the data stewardship programs and their research environments
| Data stewardship program (main program FTEs) | Policy and governance | Research data services establishment, funding and structures | Advocacy, advisory, and support research data services | Technical research data services | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purdue | Research infrastructure personnel as full-time data stewards (3 FTEs) | Majority Federal Agency based Focus on Security and RCR | Dept: Faculty (Professors, Researchers and Subject Liaisons) and Staff (PURR) Staff leads cross campus focus | Across all data processes Campus connectors | Univ: Storage, sharing, and computing. PURR repository developed in-house Regional to International Collab options |
| TU Delft | Full-time data stewards employed at the faculties management teams (13 FTEs) | Close connections between institutional and national policies on open access publishing and research data management Comply with EU level legislations on privacy and open data | Research Data and Software services provided by the library Data Stewards employed at faculties | University level advocacy and coordination: led by library research data and software services Research community: led by faculty Data Stewards | Institutional services on RDM with both in-house infrastructure and external applications National infrastructure and facilities coordinated by the library |
| Aalto | Researchers as part-time data stewards (2.5 FTEs) | The Finnish Federation of Learned Societies coordinates the forming of national open science policies. Institutional policies Comply with EU level legislations on privacy and open data | The data steward programship is funded by research services Research software engineers funded by IT Aalto has no dedicated library organization, but similar functions reside in research services | The data stewards were foremost researchers and their main work was within the research projects Research services coordinate the university-level efforts | Availability of national federated services (e.g. CSC, FinData) and European services Few selected in-house infrastructure initiatives, such as Aalto Materials Database |
| Data stewardship program (main program FTEs) | Policy and governance | Research data services establishment, funding and structures | Advocacy, advisory, and support research data services | Technical research data services | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purdue | Research infrastructure personnel as full-time data stewards (3 FTEs) | Majority Federal Agency based | Dept: Faculty (Professors, Researchers and Subject Liaisons) and Staff (PURR) | Across all data processes | Univ: Storage, sharing, and computing. PURR repository developed in-house |
| TU Delft | Full-time data stewards employed at the faculties management teams (13 FTEs) | Close connections between institutional and national policies on open access publishing and research data management | Research Data and Software services provided by the library | University level advocacy and coordination: led by library research data and software services | Institutional services on RDM with both in-house infrastructure and external applications |
| Aalto | Researchers as part-time data stewards (2.5 FTEs) | The Finnish Federation of Learned Societies coordinates the forming of national open science policies. Institutional policies | The data steward programship is funded by research services | The data stewards were foremost researchers and their main work was within the research projects | Availability of national federated services (e.g. CSC, FinData) and European services |
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