GO FAIR and the European Open Science Cloud

In 2016, the European Commission launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Now, a group of ‘early mover’ EU member states is preparing the GO FAIR initiative, which is a proposal for the practical implementation of the EOSC. The DTL FAIR data team is actively involved. GO FAIR proposes the completely inclusive, open and practical implementation of the recommendations of the EOSC High… Continue reading

Successful FAIR data workshop for DTL partners

On 3 and 4 November 2016, DTL ran a workshop ‘FAIR Data Stewardship for Discovery and Innovation’ especially for its partners. Dr Erik Schultes (FAIR Data Scientific Projects Lead at DTL): “Technology and policy around data stewardship and open science are advancing rapidly. This event gave the DTL partners a comprehensive overview of Dutch and international trends. The participants know what to… Continue reading

Personal Health Train workshop: a report

On 10 November 2016, the people behind the Personal Health Train (PHT) (André Dekker of Maastro Clinic and Peter-Bram ’t Hoen of LUMC) and PRANA-Data (Wessel Kraaij of TNO) organised a workshop in Utrecht. PRANA-Data is a COMMIT project. The PHT initiative aims to increase the use of existing biomedical data for research into personalised health and medicine. During the day, over 30 people discussed technical solutions… Continue reading

The FAIR side of Mendeley Data

In addition to Bring Your Own Data workshops (which focus on making research data FAIR), DTL regularly organises so-called ‘FAIR data hackathons‘. These events aim to make research tools FAIR. On 18 November 2016, a FAIR data hackathon was organised for Elsevier’s Mendeley open data repository.  Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help researchers organise their research, collaborate… Continue reading

Bring Your Own Rett Syndrome Data workshop: a summary

The ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project collaborates with the Maastricht Rett Expertise Centre to improve data availability for rare diseases like Rett Syndrome. On 1-3 November 2016, a three day Bring Your Own Rett Syndrome Data workshop was held at Maastricht University. The summary below was written by Friederike Ehrhart of Maastricht University. The workshop’s aim was to produce FAIR nanopublications. FAIR is an internationally adopted… Continue reading

Workshop to link rare disease registries: a report

The third Bring Your Own Data workshop (BYOD) for rare disease registries in Rome (29-30 September 2016) brought more registries with more data than ever before. Participants responded positively to learning about making registries Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable for humans and computers (FAIR) at the source. A proof-of-concept query across resources was shown for every break-out group, and a… Continue reading

Software solution provider BYOD

On 25-27 October 2016, we organised another ‘Bring Your Own Data workshop’ (BYOD) in Leiden, the Netherlands. This time, we focused on software that is used to collect information about patients and their diseases. The BYOD brought together software solution providers, linked data experts, and rare disease experts to work on making the software produce data that is findable, accessible, interoperable,… Continue reading

Successful hackathon to make MOLGENIS FAIR

In addition to Bring Your Own Data workshops (which focus on making research data FAIR), DTL regularly organises so-called ‘FAIR data hackathons‘. These events aim to make research tools FAIR. On 19 and 20 October 2016, a FAIR data hackathon was organised for the MOLGENIS system. The MOLGENIS system consists of several software tools for scientific data management, including the MOLGENIS/connect tool, which… Continue reading

LERU summer school: the movie

From 10 to 15 July 2016, LERU, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center organised the 7th LERU Doctoral Summer School. DTL supported the event. The summer school’s theme was ‘Data Stewardship for Scientific Discovery and Innovation’ and was received with enormous enthusiasm. The organisers have now prepared a video with an impression of the summer school. Proper data stewardship is swiftly… Continue reading