FAIR Data Day | 29 November 2022 | showcasing RDNL’s Dutch Data Prize

This in-person event revolves around the central theme: Reusing data to advance science, showcasing inspirational examples and bringing together communities.  *DTL is a partner in RDNL and the FAIR Data event is a collaboration of RDNL and NPOS. Join your peers, researchers, data stewards and research software engineers to exchange and learn more about the advantages of reusing data in daily… Continue reading

FAIR Data in Medical Research: Incorporating the FAIR Principles in the Research Data Life Cycle

On April 22nd 2022, Martijn Kersloot defended his PhD thesis in Amsterdam. Kersloot wrote his thesis, entitled ‘FAIR Data in Medical Research: Incorporating the FAIR Principles in the Research Data Life Cycle’, under the supervision of promoters professor Ameen Abu-Hanna and Dr. Ronald Cornet and co-promotor Dr. Derk Arts. With his thesis, Kersloot aimed to incorporate the FAIRification steps into… Continue reading

ELIXIR-CONVERGE June 29 FAIR hackathon to create lesson plans

Please register & help us find experts by sharing the invite. We would love to have Dutch Life Sciences & Health data stewards (and alike) on board. Help us create lesson plans for life sciences research organisations to advance their data stewards’ and researchers’ FAIR skills. Audience: Everyone willing to work on joint lesson plans on how to implement FAIR… Continue reading

Hackathon to integrate the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard with other ELIXIR resources

On December 4-6, 2018 the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard team (ELIXIR-CZ, ELIXIR-NL) welcomed the FAIRsharing, TeSS (both ELIXIR-UK) and ELIXIR-SI eLearning Platform – EeLP (ELIXIR-SI) teams to the beautiful city of Prague during the “Mikuláš” (Dutch “Sinterklaas”) celebrations, to take part in a hackathon to share information and work towards interoperability and integration between ELIXIR resources. An external services integration framework… Continue reading

Barend Mons interviewed about data stewardship and ‘FAIR’ data

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

Netherlands joins international ELIXIR consortium on biological data

Utrecht, 3 February 2014 On the 28th of January 2014, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, Sander Dekker, has ratified the international ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA). This makes The Netherlands the seventh country – and eighth formal member of the ELIXIR research infrastructure with the tagline ‘Data for Life’.  Data for Life As the tagline suggests, the… Continue reading