Teaching Research Data Management for Students

Authors

  • Cord Wiljes Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2528-5391
  • Philipp Cimiano Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-038

Keywords:

teaching, research data management, RDM

Abstract

Sound skills in managing research data are a fundamental requirement in any discipline of research. Therefore, research data management should be included in academic education of students as early as possible. We have been teaching an interdisciplinary full semester’s course on research data management for six years. We report how we established the course. We describe our competency-based approach to teaching research data management and the curriculum of topics that we consider essential. We evaluate our approach by a survey done among the participants of the course and summarize the lessons we learned in teaching the course.

Author Biographies

Cord Wiljes, Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University

Cord Wiljes studied Chemistry at Bielefeld University. In his thesis he worked on the "Detection of Reactive Species in Flames using Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy". He received his Diploma in 1997. After working as an IT consultant for several years he joined the Semantic Computing Group at CITEC in 2011. He is currently working on novel approaches for the semantic representation and retrieval of chemical research data.

Philipp Cimiano, Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University

Philipp Cimiano is the head of the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster (CITEC). Before joining the Bielefeld University, he was an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology (2008-2009) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute AIFB of Karlsruhe University (TH). Philipp Cimiano is mainly interested in topics at the intersection between knowledge representation and text processing including: text mining, computational semantics, information retrieval, question answering, ontology learning, ontology localization, etc. He is editorial board member of the Semantic Web Journal.

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Published

2019-08-13

Issue

Vol. 18 (2019)

Section

Practice Papers

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