Initial work in identifying data management or data information literacy skills went as far as identifying a list of proposed competencies without further differentiation between those competencies, whether by discipline, complexity, or use case. This document contains an evolution in existing competencies. It identifies a scaffolding built upon existing competencies that moves students progressively from the personal domain of data management through team data management to the research enterprise level of data management. The scaffolding ties together existing research that has been completed in research data management skills and data information literacy with research into the outcomes that are desirable for individuals to present in data management at each of the levels of education.  As a result of this document, competencies will be aligned according to application (personal, small group, large group) in such a way that the skills attained at the undergraduate level would give students moving on to graduate work greater familiarity with data management and therefore greater likelihood of success at the graduate and then post graduate and data steward levels.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Nelson, M. S. (2016). Scaffolding for data management skills: From undergraduate education through postgraduate training and beyond. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/R7QJ7F9R

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1. Data Education
2. data information literacy
3. data management skills
4. data skills training
5. Education
6. Library Science
7. Library Science (Dept)

Version 3.0 July 20, 2016. 

This version has one additional competency, significant reworking of existing competencies, and edits for grammar and ease of use.