Publication How to be FAIR with your data

We are happy to announce the recent publication of “How to be FAIR with your data: A teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions”. The handbook was created by a group of about 40 collaborators (a.o. Mijke Jetten – DTL, Health-RI – and Ronald Cornet – Amsterdam UMC, ELIXIR-NL) in a series of book sprints and a subsequent editorial… Continue reading

How to unlock toxicology data for drug discovery?

A second case study has been published on FAIRification of Innovative Health Initiative. On this occasion they’ve written about the eTOX project case, in which several companies created a large scale toxicology database, covering 8.8 million pre-clinical data points on nearly 2,000 chemicals from 8,196 studies that included predictions on health effects. Experts achieved an increase in FAIRness level of… Continue reading

Celebrating three years of the Data Stewardship Wizard

The Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) resource has recently celebrated its third anniversary since the first v1.0 release. Initially conceived through a mind-map of data management topics, a questionnaire system and a collaboration between ELIXIR Netherlands and ELIXIR Czech Republic, the DSW has now flourished into an interactive web-tool to help scientists and researchers manage their data in an accessible and user-friendly way. … Continue reading

Open Consultation on the NPOS2030 Ambition Document

Aim of this Consultation and next stepsThis Open Consultation aims to give all stakeholders the opportunity to reflect on the NPOS2030 Ambition Document. The feedback received in this consultation will help the NPOS Steering Board and the Programme Line Leads to start filling in actions for each of the Key Lines of Action for the coming years, thus creating a… Continue reading

New National Roadmap 2021 presented

On September 8, 2021 Minister van Engelshoven (Education, Culture, Science) received the new National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure 2021. In the new Roadmap nine groups present their proposals for investments in a large-scale research infrastructure for the next 10 years. In the domain Life and Health sciences four groups have been identified: green life sciences, life sciences & enabling technology,… Continue reading

BioSB 2021 – looking back on a successful online edition

We were delighted to meet over three hundred people from both academia and industry during the two-day BioSB 2021 conference on June 15 and 16. Just like last year, BioSB 2021 was held online. The program included many interesting topics and we again were very pleased to see so many excellent talks and presentations. The keynote lectures by Kathleen Marchal, Edda… Continue reading

Vacancy DTL Projects: Bioinformatician/Data Steward

Are you joining our team to strengthen FAIR data stewardship and analysis in Dutch life sciences research? Are you experienced in data interoperability in life sciences research? Here is your chance to join our team and help build the capacity in FAIR-based data stewardship in the DTL and Health-RI network.   Towards a national FAIR-compliant data infrastructure for life sciences… Continue reading

Professionalising data stewardship with competences, training and education- A Dutch roadmap towards national implementation of FAIR data stewardship

As part of the National Programme Open Science (NPOS), the Professionalising data stewardship in the Netherlands report was recently published. This report provides arguments for urgent decisions and activities to ensure adequate data steward capacity in the Netherlands, in order to realise the ambitions for Open Science.  How are Open Science and FAIR data connected? The Dutch National Programme Open… Continue reading

DK and NL featured in Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) as use cases for data stewardship

How do Denmark and the Netherlands look at the roles and stakeholders in the data stewardship landscape?  Surprisingly similar.  Both countries have done extensive work to professionalise data stewardship and are highlighted in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) (p.128). These efforts could serve as the basis for the EOSC Skills agenda… Continue reading