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Linked data and ontologies tutorial

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Marco Roos (LUMC) created a tutorial on how research that requires analyses across different data sources can be sped up using Linked Data and Ontologies. It starts with an example of a researcher who wishes to compare information from three Huntington’s Disease population studies. She finds herself spending most of her time on aligning the data from these three resources,… Continue reading →

Barend Mons interviewed about data stewardship and ‘FAIR’ data

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At the Terena Networking Conference 2014 on 19 – 22 May 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, Barend Mons (keynote speaker at the conference and Head of Node of ELIXIR-NL) was interviewed about his view on the need for data stewardship for future research projects and why data should be ‘FAIR’ (Findable, Accessible Interoperable and Re-usable). You can find the YouTube video with… Continue reading →

DTL and ELIXIR endorse Data Citation Principles

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DTL and ELIXIR both actively support the Data Citation Principles created by Force11. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Their aim is to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology. DTL… Continue reading →

Proposal on Open Discovery and Exchange of (big) data in Life sciences funded for 2 years

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Recently the Dutch research council (NWO) and the Netherlands eScience Center announced that they will co-fund the proposal called ODEX4all: Open Discovery and Exchange of (big) data in the Life Science, for the next 2 years. The project aims to address the semantic aspects of the ‘Big Data’ challenges in the life sciences by realising full interoperability on key public… Continue reading →

Jointly designing a Data FAIRPORT

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On the 13th to 16th of January 2014 the Dutch ELIXIR Node, in cooperation with the Netherlands eScience Center and the Lorentz Center, organized an ‘unconference’ titled:  ‘Jointly designing a Data FAIRPORT’. During these four days key aspects of a global infrastructure for effective data publishing, discovery, sharing and re-use for eScience experimentation were discussed. The workshop brought together 25… Continue reading →