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Personal Health Train and FAIR data presented at ICTU Cafe

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On 19 April 2017, Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen (Associate Professor Bioinformatics at LUMC) gave a presentation at the ‘ICTU Cafe’ on contemporary innovations. He highlighted how big and small data can help personalise healthcare and discussed the personal health train project and the FAIR data principles. Read more in this news item about the ICTU Cafe (in Dutch).

2 BYODs coming up

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DTL frequently organises ‘Bring your own data’ (BYOD) workshops, where research data are made FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). The FAIR data principles act as an international guideline for good data stewardship. In BYODs, domain experts work side by side with FAIR data experts to get hands-on experience with FAIRifying real-world datasets. Two BYODs will be organised in May and June 2017. Please contact Mascha Jansen… Continue reading →

Looking back: ELIXIR-CHARME Workshop ‘FAIR Data and Data Stewardship in ELIXIR: How to write your own FAIRy tale

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On 23 March 2017, the ELIXIR Interoperability and Training Platforms organised an ELIXIR-CHARME Workshop ‘FAIR Data and Data Stewardship in ELIXIR: How to write your own FAIRy tale’ at the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Rome. The organisers were Chris Evelo and Celia van Gelder of ELIXIR-NL. Download the presentations. The workshop was organised in a collaboration between the ELIXIR interoperability and… Continue reading →

Towards a FAIR TranSMART tool

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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 16 february 2017, a FAIR data hackathon was organised for the TranSMART tool of DTL partner the Hyve, which enables  scientists to store, analyse, and browse their data. Read more.

Metabolomics Implementation Network launched as key element of European Open Science Cloud

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On 10 March 2017, Professor Karel Luyben (TU Delft) welcomed the ‘Metabolomics GO FAIR Implementation Network’ as community initiative to start the European Open Science Cloud. The network aims to implement the FAIR data principles in the field of metabolomics in Europe. This will help scientists to exchange research data and workflows and to combine metabolomics data with other phenotypic… Continue reading →

Open science in Ireland

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In January 2017, the DTL FAIR Data team delivered a FAIR data workshop at the Irish Health Research Board (HRB) in Dublin. “As one of the major research funders in Ireland, we value research data as an important output of scientific research. But we do not have deep knowledge about data stewardship. We learned that the Dutch team has conducted a lot… Continue reading →

Quaero Systems is ready for FAIR

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On 20 December 2016, Jantine Dirksen and Jos Visser of DTL partner Quaero Systems met with Mark Thomson, Kees Burger, and Rajaram Kaliyaperumal of DTL for a FAIR hackathon. Where Bring Your Own Data workshops focus on making data FAIR, FAIR hackathons have the purpose of making tools FAIR. Jantine Dirksen explains: “Quaero Systems offers a SAAS application to support all activities… Continue reading →

On data challenges in agricultural science

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Dr Ernst van den Ende and Dr Richard Finkers of Wageningen UR are on top of the recent developments in the field of agricultural science. “Growing enough food sustainably for the expanding world population presents a formidable challenge. We will need sophisticated data handling techniques to face this challenge,” says Van den Ende. Van den Ende is the Director of… Continue reading →

National Plan Open Science presented

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Today, the National Plan Open Science has been launched in The Hague. The plan lists the current activities and ambitions of the parties in the Netherlands that intend to take action to make science more open. The plan is a response to a recent call of the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, asking a broad coalition of stakeholders to jointly develop a National Plan Open Science.… Continue reading →