RDA Professionalising Data Stewardship - Current Models of Data Stewardship: Survey Report

This report presents the first analysis of the Models of Data Stewardship survey completed by the Research Data Alliance Professionalising Data Stewardship Interest Group (RDA PDS-IG) in October-November 2021. The purpose of the survey, based around a conceptual model of data stewardship services, was to engage with the global research data management (RDM) community to capture information about data stewardship approaches taken by organisations and the wider landscape of data stewardship and services. In particular, this initial report provides insights on a) roles involved in providing data stewardship services, the functions these provide, to which customer groups, and at which stages of the data lifecycle; b) stakeholder involved in the governance of data stewardship; c) indicative ranges of service capacity of data stewardship services; d) benefits of data stewardship promoted by services; and e) main lessons learned by responding data stewardship services. The dataset collected in the survey can be viewed at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.666530