<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">On 20-21 May 2019,
representatives of the research data community met at the <span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/">CODATA</a> </span>headquarters
in Paris to take the first steps in building a terminology to describe <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">FAIR</span></a> stewardship
skills (the skills necessary to make data FAIR and keep them FAIR): the
tag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23terms4FAIRskills&src=tyah"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">#terms4FAIRskills</span></a> was used on Twitter
during the event.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)">Why is this important?</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">There have been a
number of efforts to develop training materials and to list the competencies
required for data stewardship. Building on these previous efforts, the
participants of the workshop took the first steps towards creating a formalised
terminology describing competencies, skills and knowledge associated with
activities involved in making data FAIR. When mature, this will have a variety
of use cases, including:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(96,108,113);margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">to assist with the creation and assessment of
stewardship curricula;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(96,108,113);margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">to help facilitate the annotation, discovery and
evaluation of FAIR-enabling materials (e.g. for training) and resources;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(96,108,113);margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">to allow the formalisation of job descriptions and CVs
with recognised competencies.</span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">The completed
terminology will be of use to trainers who teach FAIR data skills, researchers
who want to identify skills gaps in their teams and middle and senior managers
who wish to recruit individuals to relevant roles.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">During the workshop we
defined <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mnyIUo1Zx9hUftvkJQnOZlNUnzslezZb/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">the methodology</span></a> we will use to build this
terminology, and reviewed the use cases (how this terminology will be used in
practice), which had been determined via a <a href="https://github.com/hughshanahan/FAIRTerminologySurveyAnalysis"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">survey</span></a>. The use cases will ultimately drive
the decision on the type of formal representation we will iteratively build
(i.e. a controlled vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus or an ontology). We
started the process by reviewing descriptions of FAIR skills provided by <a href="https://eoscpilot.eu/content/d75-strategy-sustainable-development-skills-and-capabilities"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">FAIR4S</span></a>, including their derived ‘compound
terms’ and definitions, as well as the related terms and started the process of
building simpler terms (referred to as ‘atomic terms’) from this.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)">What next?</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">We will work in
groups, collaborating online, to continue to add terms, decompose them into
atomic terms, refine and provide term definitions. A coordination group will
work to clean up and harmonize the list of terms for consistency. We plan to
hold a second workshop in September-November 2019 and - informed by the use
cases and competency questions - we will start to identify and build the
necessary formal representation. Before that workshop, we intend to release
some basic documentation about the work and the draft list of terms and
definitions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)">How to get involved</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">We welcome additional
collaborators in this activity. If you would like to become involved with this
project or would like some clarification, please contact the Organizers
at <a href="mailto:terms4FAIRskills@codata.org"><span style="color:rgb(30,107,184)">terms4FAIRskills@codata.org</span></a>specifying
your name, institutional affiliation and the ways in which you would like to
contribute.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)">Who is involved in #terms4FAIRskills?</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,153,87)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">A committee of
representatives* from CODATA, the DCC, DTL/ELIXIR-NL, FAIRsharing and Royal
Holloway organised the 1st workshop which brought together a number of experts
in FAIR data, data skills training and Knowledge Engineering, from projects and
organisations from across Europe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">Workshop
announcement: <a href="https://terms4fairskills.github.io/Announcement.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(96,108,113);text-decoration-line:none">https://terms4fairskills.github.io/Announcement.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">CODATA activities to
coordinate development of data science and data stewardship curricula: <a href="http://www.codata.org/fair-data-training" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(96,108,113);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.codata.org/fair-data-training</span></a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,108,113)">Asha</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-- </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">___________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Asha Law | Program
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