Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences
Date: 7 July - 17 November 2025
Timezone: Lisbon
Duration: 3 days
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).
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 — Pedro Barros (ITQB NOVA)
- Electronic Lab Notebook administration and advanced usage — Carolina Ventura Costa (CIIMAR)
- Process & Analyse
- Version control using git, Ricardo Leite
- Workflow management tools, Francisco Pina Martins (ESTB/IPS)
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
Within the scope of PNCADAI: Measure RE-C05-i08 - More Digital Science of the PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan
Contact: info@biodata.pt
Keywords: Data Steward, Data Management, Data Management Plan, Open Science, Version Control, Git, Ontology, Data curation, FAIR, Policy, Data Stewardship
Venue: Online and in Porto
Prerequisites:
Basic Research Data Management skills or completion of the Ready for BioData Management? Intensive course
Organizer: BioData.pt
Host institutions: BioData.pt
Eligibility:
- First come first served
Target audience: Researchers, Lab managers
Capacity: 32
Event types:
- Workshops and courses
Cost basis: Free to all
Sponsors: PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan
Scientific topics: Data management, FAIR data, Version control, Ontology and terminology, Data curation and archival, Open science
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