Monthly Round-up: April 2021

• Urban microclimate modelling with SPACERGY 

PhD student Daniella Maiullari received last year’s Data Refinement Fund to publish her CityGML 3D city models of Almere’s new urban district in 4TU.ResearchData. 

Read more about how Daniela’s datasets simulate the energy and microclimate of the district to be showcased at Floriade 2022.

• ‘Python Essentials for GIS Learners’: A targeted FAIR research workshop 

Ashley Cryan and José Urra Llanusa from TU Delft’s Digital Competence Centre developed a 3-day online workshop to teach fundamental concepts of programming with Python, version control with Git, working with the command line, and how tools for each skill can be used to find, explore, produce, and share FAIR geospatial data.

Read more about their experience, lessons learned and plans to deliver future workshops!

• Coding Confessions: Celebrating the SSI #COLLABW21 Hack Day Runners-up!

4TU.ResearchData’s data trainer, Eirini Zormpa, and collaborators won second place for their project, ‘Coding Confessions’, during the Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaboration Workshop Hack Day. The project invites you to confess your coding errors and normalise failure so that more people feel comfortable to share code!

Coding confessions needs YOU!
Read more about how you can get involved.

• New to the crew at 4TU!

Zafer Öztürk holds a PhD in Chemistry and has joined the University of Twente as a data steward to support researchers and raise awareness about the FAIR data principles. Zafer loves to cook and practice yoga in his spare time. Welcome Zafer!

Urineweginfectie (UWI-casus) logboek
Author(s): Pieternel Gunst
Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
Categories: Other Information and Computing Sciences, Information Systems, Business and Management, Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions), Clinical Sciences
Keywords: event log, process mining, logboek, Urinary tract infection (UTI), Urineweginfectie (UWI), Ziekenhuis, Hospital, Real life event logs, IEEE Task Force on Process mining, ZIS, Ziekenhuis Informatie Systeem (ZIS)

View the dataset

Channel state information (WiFi traces) for 6  activities
Author(s): Jeroen Klein Brinke
Institution: University of Twente
Categories: Information Systems
Keywords: CSI, Channel state information, Human activity recognition, Wifi traces

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Technology in Motion Tremor Dataset: TIM-Tremor
Author(s): Paulina Bank, Jian Zheng, Silvia Pintea, Elma Ouwehand, Suzanne de Bot, Jan van Gemert, Jacobus van Hilten
Institution: Delft University of Technology
Categories: Neurosciences
Keywords: Depth video, Movement disorders, Neurology, RGB video, Tremor

View the dataset

• New vacancy for a Data Protection Officer

Join the team at TU Eindhoven as a data protection officer to strengthen the university’s data protection culture! If you’re interested in monitoring GDPR compliance, and assessing  policy, guidelines and processes against the applicable laws and regulations then this position is for you!
Apply before 9th May.

• New vacancy for a DCC Coordinator

Join the team at the University of Twente as the coordinator of the Digital Competence Center. The coordinator will be part of the core DCC and will organise activities to promote proper research data management and further develop the roadmap for 100% FAIR data at the university!
Apply before 16th May.

The University of Twente Digital Competence Center’s Thematic Session: Introduction to Cloud Computing – CRIB and VRE on 19th April.

• Serkan Girgin delivered a presentation about ITC’s cloud computing platform CRIB.

• Ralph Mettinkhof from LISA presented the new Virtual Research Environment (VRE).
  See the slides and watch the recording.

RDA 17th Plenary Meeting from 18th to 23rd April
Thank you to our community contributors!

• Joint RDA/IDCC unconference. See the session proposals. 
• Professionalising Data Stewardship: Business Case, Terminology and Organisational Models – Yan Wang (Co-chair)
• Challenges of curating data from interdisciplinary and collaborative research – Connie Clare and Yan Wang (speakers).
• WG Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs – Yasemin Türkyilmaz van der Velden and Santosh Ilamparuthi (Co-chairs)
• Cross-disciplinary sharing of samples and increasing awareness – Esther Plomp (Co-chair)
• Engaging Researchers With Research Data IG: Engage Locally, Act Globally – See presentation slides about ‘4TU.ResearchData: The Community’ by Connie Clare (Co-chair) and ‘The Carpentries Online’ by Esther Plomp.