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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 are organising a networking meeting for colleagues working in the new data professions on 3 October 2017. Ingeborg Verheul of the LCRDM: “The 3 October event is fully booked. We are now preparing a similar but larger event on 1 December 2017. Information about the programme… Continue reading →

ePlan workshop on FAIR Facts and Implementations: a report

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On 14 September 2017, ePLAN (the national Platform of eScience/Data Research organisations in the Netherlands) organised a workshop ‘FAIR: Facts and Implementations’ at the Netherlands eScience Centre in Amsterdam. Close to 30 people from different Dutch universities, research support services, research institutions, and ventures followed the workshop. Wilco Hazeleger (ePlan), Barend Mons (GO FAIR), Peter Doorn (DANS), and Gareth O’Neill… Continue reading →

Towards an international research data infrastructure for biodiversity and ecology studies

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For centuries, scientists all over the world have established enormous collections of animals, plants, microbes, fossils, minerals, and rocks. The data associated with these specimens can help researchers understand life on earth, counter biodiversity loss, and contribute to a sustainable future. However, to arrive at new scientific insights and solutions for environmental problems, researchers should integrate data from various sources.… Continue reading →

18 October: ELIXIR webinar on FAIR tools and training materials

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On Wednesday 18 October 2017 14:00 BST, ELIXIR-NL’s Marco Roos will present an ELIXIR webinar ‘Overview of a suite of tools and training materials for implementing FAIR data principles’. Join the webinar. There is global endorsement of principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) by humans and computers. Marco Roos (ELIXIR-NL), will present standards-based tools, architecture, and training material that help… Continue reading →

Bioinformatics in the Netherlands

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The scientific journal Briefings in Bioinformatics recently published a paper about the history of Bioinformatics in the Netherlands. The authors are affiliated to DTL, ELIXIR-NL, and BioSB and they describe the process of building the Dutch Bioinformatics community since 2003: from NBIC to DTL, ELIXIR-NL, and BioSB. Read the paper.

ELIXIR publishes position paper on FAIR data management in life sciences

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On 7 September 2017, ELIXIR stated how its infrastructure will help researchers to make published life science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). This statement also voices ELIXIR’s commitment to enabling the availability of FAIR data within the framework of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), an initiative of the European Commission and Member States to connect big data across… Continue reading →

Cancer omics Bring Your Own Data workshop: a report

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UMC Utrecht and DTL organised a cancer omics Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on 6-8 June 2017 in Utrecht. Four Cancer Genomics Center datasets were made FAIR and we demonstrated the advantages of interoperability. Read the full report written by Daphne van Beek. About BYODs At a BYOD workshop, experts assist you in making your research data FAIR. The main goal of these three-day events is to make… Continue reading →

Personal Health Train in LSH Knowledge and Innovation Agenda

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In August 2017, the Dutch Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH), launched its Knowledge and Innovation Agenda 2018-2021. This strategic document describes LSH’s health and care ambitions for the next four years. The agenda mentions that ‘many Dutch LSH highlights are famous worldwide, including the upcoming Dutch ICT-breakthrough innovation of the Personal Health Train that incorporates the FAIR principles adopted by the… Continue reading →

FAIR workshop on 14 September

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On 14 September 2017, the Netherlands eScience Center organises a workshop for researchers and policy makers on FAIR data in Amsterdam. FAIR data refers to data being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, with the goal to make science more transparent, efficient and accessible. It is expected that the FAIR principles will increasingly be used by funding agencies and institutes in the… Continue reading →

Call for Science Demonstrators EOSCpilot Project

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The European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot project (EOSCpilot) is supporting the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as described in the EC Communication on European Cloud Initiatives. You can apply until 11th September 2017. Read more.