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Will you win the Dutch Data Prize 2018?

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This year, the Dutch Data Prize will be awarded for the fifth time, to a researcher or research group that has made a special contribution to science by making research data accessible for new or additional research. Just as in 2016, there will be a Data Prize in three categories: humanities & social sciences, exact & technical sciences, and medical… Continue reading →

Register for the RDM discussion list

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At the IDCC conference in Barcelona earlier this year, the idea developed to have a Dutch RDM discussion list, comparable to the JISC RDM discussion list in the UK. This list is now available and will be hosted by the National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM). Ingeborg Verheul of the LCDRM explains: “The list will be hosted via Ecompass under the name… Continue reading →

What do talented early career researchers think about research data management?

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‘Early career researchers want Open Science’ is the title of a 2017 publication in Genome Biology by a group of talented early career researchers. They participated in the 2016 LERU summer school on Data Stewardship. Read the paper. The summer school took place in July 2016 and was organised by LERU, Leiden University, and Leiden University Medical Center. DTL supported the event. The… Continue reading →

Science Europe and NWO launch initiative for aligning research data management policies

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Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) have launched an initiative for the voluntary international alignment of research data management policies. They presented the initiative on 30 January in Brussels, at the ‘Open Science and Sharing Research Data: Towards European Guidelines on RDM Procedures’ event. Open Science is high on the political and scientific agenda in Europe,… Continue reading →

31 January: Webinar are we FAIR yet?

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On 31 January 2018, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will organise a webinar ‘Are we FAIR yet?’ The webinar will be presented by Michel Dumontier of Maastricht University. You can register on the RDA website. The webinar will be held on 31 January 2018 at 14:00 UTC and it is co-organised by the RDA Data Fitness and RDA/Force11 FAIRsharing (previously BioSharing). More… Continue reading →

ELIXIR kicks off two new training-related Implementation Studies

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In January 2018, two training-related Implementation Studies were started by ELIXIR. ELIXIR-NL plays a major role in both. “One of the new Implementation Studies focuses on data stewardship training,” says Celia van Gelder. She is one of the leaders of the ELIXIR Training Platform. “Data stewardship is not everyday practice for researchers. It is often considered an administrative task rather… Continue reading →

Working on Data Stewardship? Meet your Peers on 1 December!

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The National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) and UKB working group Research Data (in collaboration with SURFacademy) are organising the second edition of a networking meeting for colleagues working in the new data professions. During the meeting, participants will get to know each other and learn from each other’s experiences. The meeting will take place on 1 December 2017… Continue reading →

Watch the video on ELIXIR’s human data activities

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A new video presents an overview of ELIXIR’s activities and services in Human Genomics and Translational Data. Watch it on YouTube. ELIXIR is the European research infrastructure (ESFRI) dealing with all aspects of data in all branches of life sciences. DTL acts as the Dutch node of ELIXIR. To ensure that the services developed by the ELIXIR platforms are fit for… Continue reading →