Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences 2025

BioData.pt is organising the 2025 edition of its Training for Life Sciences Data Stewards, a practical course designed to support data stewards in managing, curating, and sharing life and health sciences data.
The programme combines online and face-to-face sessions, including project-based learning activities. Participants will explore topics such as vocabularies, data workflows, FAIR principles, and data sharing using platforms like GitHub, Dataverse, and Beacon.
The course is limited to 32 participants (2 per BioData.pt member institution).

Requirements: Basic Research Data Management skills or completion of the Ready for BioData Management? Intensive course

Location: Online (Sessions 1 & 2), Porto (Session 3)

Course overview

Session 1 — July 7 (9h30 - 13h00, 14h30 - 17h30), Online

• Introduction to the course and the Data Lifecycle (Inês Chaves and Gil Oliveira) https://zenodo.org/records/17232808

• Collect

• Vocabularies and the Ontology Lookup Service (Pedro Barros - ITQB)  https://zenodo.org/records/16411900

• Electronic Lab Notebook administration and advanced usage (protocol sharing, administration…) (Carolina Ventura - CiiMAR)  https://zenodo.org/records/16411634

• Process & Analyse

• Version control using git e.g. GitHub (Ricardo Leite) https://zenodo.org/records/17233167

• Workflow management tools, e.g. Nextflow/Snakemake/Jupyter  (Francisco Pina Martins) https://zenodo.org/records/16418573

Session 2 — October 2 (10h00 - 12h00, 14h00 - 17h30), Online

• Catch-up and presentation of the Project’s Stage A done by students

• Preserve, Share and Reuse
  

• Nonsensitive data sharing: Dataverse (Gil Oliveira)

• Research Data Management @FCT|FCCN -  Strategy (Filipa Pereira and Pedro Sobral)
• Polen Repository - National service (Filipa Pereira and Pedro Sobral)
• Sensitive data sharing: FEGA & Beacon (Jorge Oliveira - INESC-ID | IST)

Session 3 — (11h00 - 12h30, Grand Hall - Building EA, 14h00-17h00, Room 03.P1.E3) Face-to-face at All Hands meeting, Porto

• Professionalising Data Stewards (Mijke Jetten ELIXIR NL)

• Data Management Plans
  • Evaluating FAIRness
  • DMP feedback
  • Funder open science policies
  • Institutional policies

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