The Stewardship principle recognises the professional role of data stewards in balancing stakeholder interests, public involvement, data utility and social acceptability. Spanning the research cycle, stewardship requires specialist expertise and strong infrastructure oversight. The ambition is to formalise the profession through development pathways, training, capacity building, and regulatory accountability. 

Resources

National Institutes of Health Data management and Sharing Policy

The Data Management and Sharing Policy ensures that all funded researchers create a stewardship plan, including roles, responsibilities and training.
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EOSC - Recommendations for Data Stewardship Skills, Training and Curricula with Implementation Examples from European Countries and Universities.

The article defines the core competencies and training strategies to professionalise data stewardship.
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National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases - Practicing Data Stewardship During Research

The article offers lifecycle-based best practices for managing sensitive research data in line with ethical and legal standards.
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The Alan Turing Institute workbook series

'Responsible Data Stewardship in Practice.' The workbook clearly outlines what responsible data stewardship is how to put it into practice whilst exploring the different components of responsible data stewardship.
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Ada Lovelace Institute: Participatory data stewardship; A framework for involving people in the use of data report

A report proposing a ‘framework for participatory data stewardship’, which rejects practices of data collection, storage, sharing and use in ways that are opaque or seek to manipulate people, in favour of practices that empower people to help inform, shape and – in some instances – govern their own data.
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Open Data Institute: Defining responsible data stewardship

This report defines responsible data stewardship, it also discusses some of the prominent concepts ODI have come across in their work including data stewardship, data ethics, data justice and data for good. The concept of responsible data and how it is used is explored.
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Safe Data Access Professionals SDC handbook

The SDC Handbook was put in place to enable output checkers who work in safe settings to learn and assess statistical results before releasing them into the world. The handbook explains what SDC is all about and why it matters, provides advice about how to assess specific statistical outputs and provides advice to organisations about how to set up SDC systems, and how to manage requests for outputs by their users.
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Ada Lovelace Institute: Disambiguating data stewardship

A summary on what is and what isn't data stewardship. Linking to the full report 'Exploring legal mechanisms for data stewardship'.
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ONS Safe Researcher Training (ONS-SRT)

The Safe Researcher Training covers researcher responsibilities in handling individual-level data, tips for working efficiently in safe research settings and practical advice for generating safe research outputs.
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The Alliance for Data Science Professionals

The Royal Statistical Society is part of an alliance of organisations that have come together to create industry-wide professional standards for data science. It aims to ensure an ethical and well-governed approach so that the public, organisations and governments can have confidence in how their data is being used.
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Professionalising data stewardship in the Netherlands: competences, training and education

The report gives an analysis of the current situation in the Netherlands with regard to data stewardship competences, education and training, and draws attention to the urgent need for a nationally coordinated action by the main stakeholders.
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Canadian Institute for Health Information: Health Data Stewardship

Health Data Stewardship Framework, the hallmarks of health data stewardship, governance approach, and work with patients and the public to advance health data stewardship across Canada.
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