Data Curation Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Data Curation Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Data Curation related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Data Curation specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Data Curation Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data Curation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:

  1. How can a store meet the demands of the head office while still fulfilling the needs of customers who expect the personal touch and the curated experience that only another human being can provide?

  2. Are there adequate mechanisms for data curation in place to ensure external auditing and replicability of results, and, if a risk has manifested itself, attribution of responsibility?

  3. How can services like the Digital Curation Centre, best support the effective curation and long term preservation of complex and dynamic data models, simulations and visualisations?

  4. What standards are being applied, as format or metadata content, to ensure that the data are findable and that the relationships between different data are preserved?

  5. Have you created clear roles and responsibilities within all lines of business for analytics, data curation, data lifecycle, and governance and data monetization?

  6. What is the high level schema of the data, and what logical queries must be supported in the long term to enable easy access, visualization, and retrieval?

  7. What is your view on what kind of data, internal, external sources, should be utilised to leverage in order to provide the best curated offerings?

  8. Is accurate and appropriate data captured in a timely manner that speeds the delivery of care and allows complete and accurate billing to occur?

  9. Which data standards, metadata systems, and curation efforts optimally improve outcome of a particular use case, as data search, or data reuse?

  10. Will the number of entities remain bounded, or will the amount of system representation information become larger than the collection size?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Data Curation book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Data Curation self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Data Curation Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Data Curation areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Data Curation Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Data Curation projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Data Curation Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Data Curation project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Risk Management Plan: Does the Data Curation project have the authority and ability to avoid the risk?

  2. Cost Management Plan: Cost estimate preparation – What cost estimates will be prepared during the Data Curation project phases?

  3. Scope Management Plan: What are the risks that could significantly affect the scope of the Data Curation project?

  4. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are written status reports provided on a designated frequent basis?

  5. Cost Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the Data Curation project?

  6. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its general support services planning and management systems are appropriately effective and constructive?

  7. Procurement Audit: Are rules in automatic disbursement programs adequate to prevent duplicate payment of invoices?

  8. Project Management Plan: How can you best help your organization to develop consistent practices in Data Curation project management planning stages?

  9. Risk Register: Are there other alternative controls that could be implemented?

  10. Roles and Responsibilities: What should you do now to prepare yourself for a promotion, increased responsibilities or a different job?

 
Step-by-step and complete Data Curation Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Data Curation project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Data Curation project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Data Curation project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Data Curation project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Data Curation project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Data Curation project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Data Curation project with this in-depth Data Curation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Data Curation projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Data Curation and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data Curation investments work better.

This Data Curation All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.