IDCC Conference Workshop Feb 2017
Demonstrating the Value and Impact of Research Data Services
Monday pm 20th February 2017
Workshop organisers: Neil Beagrie (Charles Beagrie Ltd) and Mike Priddy (DANS) and the Consortium of European Social Science Archives (CESSDA).
Description: At this half-day workshop attendees, will learn from Neil Beagrie and Mike Priddy about how to apply the Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit, the Capability Development Model, and the Archive Development Canvas (a variant of the Business Model Canvas) developed by the CESSDA Strengthening and Widening Project (CESSDA-SaW). Although the CESSDA-SaW project work focuses on the social sciences, core elements are multi-disciplinary and relevant to a wide range of organisations at IDCC involved in development, funding, and advocacy for research data infrastructures and open access for data.
The workshop is free to attend but places are limited so early booking is advised.
CESSDA-SaW is a project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. Its principal objective is to develop the maturity of data archive services that are aspiring to be, or are a part of the CESSDA community of social science data archives in a coherent and deliberate way towards the vision of a comprehensive, distributed and integrated social science data research infrastructure, facilitating access to social science data resources for researchers regardless of the location of either researcher or data. As part of the project, we have been developing the Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit, the Capability Development Model, and the Archive Development Canvas to assist data archive services across Europe.
The broad outline for the workshop will be as follows:
- Brief introduction to the CESSDA-SaW project
- Presentation and discussion of the Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit
- Presentation and discussion of the Capability Development Model
- Panel presentation and discussion – Bringing it together: The Archive Development Canvas
- Breakout groups with hands-on opportunities to use and discuss the tools we have presented
The expected learning outcomes from the workshop are that all attendees will:
- Understand the purpose of CESSDA-SaW, the Toolkit, Capability Development Model, and the Archive Development Canvas;
- Understand what is specific to social science, to different funding regimes, or maturity of services;
- Know the main findings from the desk research on the Toolkit and key lessons learnt;
- Understand economic approaches such as Return on Investment, other key arguments for Value, how it has been calculated, and why the counter-factual and “cost of inaction” are important;
- Understand how to use the Capability Development Model to undertake a self-assessment
- Know what outputs will be available from CESSDA-SaW and how they might use them.
To register for the workshop see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc17/workshops
If you are too late to book, I will maintain a short reserve list. Please contact me if you wish to be added to the list. Should anyone drop out and a place become available it will be offered to the reserves.
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