MONTHLY ROUND-UP: JUNE 2021

• When to stop and when to skip: Pub­lic trans­port mod­el­ling dur­ing COVID-19
  

Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente Pro­fes­sor, Kostas Gkiot­sali­tis, shares his soft­ware mod­els for mod­i­fy­ing the pub­lic trans­port demand dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

Read more about how Kostas’s mod­els are used by pub­lic trans­port ser­vice providers to improve crowd­ing lev­els inside vehi­cles and mit­i­gate the spread of the virus.

• We have a new RDM Games page

Would you like to learn more about research data man­age­ment in a fun and inter­ac­tive way?

Head to our Games & Activ­i­ties web­page to play… 

‘Repro­juice’ by TU Delft Library, TU Delft Game­lab & The Barn Games 
Try to repli­cate your colleague’s exper­i­ment! Step into the lab, fig­ure out where the equip­ment is and fol­low the pro­to­col to syn­the­size the cor­rect yield of a chem­i­cal sub­stance.

‘Data Hor­ror Escape Room’ by VU Ams­ter­dam, Lei­den Uni­ver­si­ty & TU Eind­hoven
Try to escape Pro­fes­sor Hut­seephlut­s’s office by solv­ing the research data man­age­ment puz­zles.

‘RDM Adven­ture’ by Stel­len­bosch Uni­ver­si­ty Library
The book takes you through stages of the research data life­cy­cle. Make deci­sions about data man­age­ment to score points. 

If you have a game to add to the col­lec­tion, con­tact us!

• 2020 — A Year of Change

2020 was a year of growth, change and devel­op­ment. We added new func­tion­al­i­ties to our data repos­i­to­ry, estab­lished the 4TU.ResearchData com­mu­ni­ty, extend­ed our train­ing offer­ings, and cel­e­brat­ed our 10th anniver­sary… 

Take a look at our high­lights and read the reflec­tive sum­ma­ry by Deirdre Casel­la, Madeleine de Smaele, Paula Mar­tinez Lavanchy, Con­nie Clare and Mar­ta Teperek.