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Do we need rigth skills or the right person?
1. Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi & Anne Kakkonen
Helsinki University Library
DO WE NEED RIGHT SKILLS
OR THE RIGHT PERSON?
2. BACKGROUD
• University of Helsinki DataSupport core staff:
• Library: 6 persons full-time + 8 part time
• IT department: 3 persons full-time
• We have trained our staff the skills needed in RDM services
since 2012.
• Every year we have got new members to our RDM team.
• The knowledge about the necessary skills grows gradually.
• It is still difficult to explain to the university administration
what skills we need.
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
More about
DataSupport
3. WORKSHOP ABOUT
SKILLS NEEDED
• Workshop was organized by Helsinki university library
• Anne Kakkonen, Head of professional development
• Mari Elisa Kuusniemi, Head of data management services
• Participants: core staff members of the DataSupport (N=17)
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
Task for participants
“Imagine you are hiring a person to replace
yourself. What skills should this person have?”
4. Level of the skill
Frequencyskillneeded
Level of the skill
5 = Top expert
3 = Competent
1 = Newbie
Scale
Frequence
4 = Every day
3 = Often
2 = Sometimes
1 = Rarely
University of Helsinki
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
5. Data selected in the
analysis
Because..
• Most of the
participants used
mainly the upper right
corner of the scale.
• We wanted to find the
most important skills
Selection of the data
University of Helsinki
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
6. ANALYSIS METHOD
• The skills were categorised to main groups.
• During categorisation, we calculated how
many times a skill was mentioned.
• The result was translated into English.
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X &
Anne Kakkonen, Helsinki University Library Göttingen-
CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
7. SKILLS MENTIONED BY
MOST PARTICIPANTS
• co-operative skills
• networking, co-operation with researchers, team work skills, etc.
• communication skills
• performing, writing, language skills, advising skills, etc.
• knowledge about research & disciplines
• research methods, data types, research traditions, etc.
• self-leadership
• motivation, time management, understanding of personal
resources, learning skills, etc
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
8. GENERAL SKILLS
MENTIONED BY MANY
• pedagogical skills
• organising skills
• coordination skills
• project management
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
9. SUBJECT SPECIFIC
KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
• Research data management best practices
• data management planning, metadata, data reusing, etc.
• responsible research, managing sensitive data, privacy, etc.
• IT solutions
• storage services, data repositories, tools, data security, etc.
• Open Science
• Legislation & contracts
• GDPR, IPR, lisencing, data ownership, etc.
• Research funders & requirements
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
10. QUOTATIONS
”The ability to turn expertise into clear expression and action”
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
”The ability to tolerate the lack of routine tasks”
”The ability to qualify in any topic”
11. DO WE NEED RIGHT SKILLS
OR THE RIGHT PERSON?
Based on this exercise:
We need the right person who can learn the right skills.
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
12. Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018
A side result of this project:
“The archetypes of data experts”
More about
archetypes
13. FUTURE PLANS
• We plan to use results of the workshop to develop
• job advertisements
• job interview questions
• human resource development (division of labor)
• staff training
• orientation plan for new members of the team
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi ORCID: 0000-0002-7675-287X & Anne Kakkonen,
Helsinki University Library
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium, 19.3.2018