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, Online

• Introduction to the course and the Data Lifecycle

• Collect

• Vocabularies and the Ontology Lookup Service

• Electronic Lab Notebook administration and advanced usage

• Process & Analyse

• Version control using git

• Workflow management tools

Session 2 — TBC, Online

• Catch-up and presentation of projects done by students
• Nonsensitive data sharing
  • Dataset curation
  • Data repository administration
• Sensitive data sharing
  • Usage of FEGA and Beacon

Session 3 — Face-to-face at All Hands meeting, Porto

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

Co-financed by: