The PARTHENOS Training. Plan will address two levels of user need: the ‘need to know about’ (awareness raising) and the ‘need to know how to do’ (skills building). In discussing the barriers to wider uptake and exploitation of research infrastructures, the WP7 team converged on the conclusion that awareness of what infrastructures are and do is a significant barrier to their wider use. This training plan will, therefore, extend its sphere of activities to interface not only with the efforts of the project development teams to assist future users to adopt their tools and services, but also with the project dissemination team so as to offer potential users a greater insight into not just what they might do with and through an infrastructure, but also why they might seek out an infrastructure in the first place.
The PARTHENOS Training. Plan (Phase 1 and 2) In addition to redefining the audiences for the PARTHENOS Training Plan, the WP7 workshop in February 2016 also developed an initial set of topics to approach through the development of training modules, available for delivery either face-to-face or asynchronously. These initial topics mapped on to the user groups defined at that same workshop. Many of the needs that we need to address are universal among audience types. For example, information about data management in general is relevant to all parties. The level of detail to which that information is taken is reliant more on the needs and presumed background knowledge of the audience grouping. One might expect that those working in Cultural Heritage are already familiar with the notions of cataloguing and metadata; likewise developers and technicians. However, decision and policy makers and many groups of researchers would not be as familiar and would therefore need more explanation on this topic.
