For the initial phase of a recently funded Dutch ZonMw educational project, '“Towards FAIR Data Steward as profession for the Life Sciences”, we are collecting various data stewardship descriptions, or any documents related to the function of ‘data steward’. 

- The focus of the project is the life science domain, but in this phase any input is appreciated

- We are particularly interested in responsibilities and activities of a data steward to be able to decide in a job function description

- In this initial phase of the project, we want to draft a definition of the knowledge base, skills and competencies for life-science data stewards, based on the function description

We appreciate the input of the community, so if you have any information we could use, it would be great it you could share it with us. Any reference to existing ‘lists’ with relevant data stewardship description or other materials is appreciated as well, as I’m probably not the first one asking this question (sorry ;-)).

Thanks a lot for your cooperation, and I’m looking forward to the responses.