Monthly Round-up: July 2021

• Cel­e­brat­ing 10 years of the Sand Motor 

The Sand Motor (Zand­mo­tor) is a large penin­su­la-shaped arti­fi­cial sand­bank that was con­struct­ed off the coast of the Nether­lands in 2011 as part of a North Sea coastal defence project. For the past decade, the Sand Motor has served as a ‘liv­ing lab’ for researchers from diverse dis­ci­plines and insti­tu­tions.

In this arti­cle, we cel­e­brate the Sand Motor’s 10th anniver­sary and the open­ly avail­able col­lec­tion of datasets pub­lished in 4TU.ResearchData.

• Data stew­ard in the spot­light: Anne Aarts

Anne Aarts is a data stew­ard pro­vid­ing data man­age­ment sup­port for researchers in the Depart­ments of Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing and Indus­tri­al Design at Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy.

We talked with Anne to learn more about her tran­si­tion from sci­en­tist to data stew­ard dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

Read more about her expe­ri­ence of work­ing as a can­cer epi­demi­ol­o­gist and how she’s been get­ting to grips with her new role as a data stew­ard.

• New to the crew at 4TU: Roel Janssen 

We’re delight­ed to wel­come our new Devel­op­er of Open Sci­ence Infra­struc­tures, Roel Janssen. 

Roel will focus on devel­op­ing soft­ware for the 4TU.ResearchData data repos­i­to­ry to sup­port researchers with data pub­li­ca­tion and shar­ing. Before join­ing the team, Roel worked as a research ana­lyst at UMC Utrecht.

• Pre­serv­ing and Pub­lish­ing FAIR Data

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente has a new research data man­age­ment web­page to edu­cate researchers about how to pre­serve and pub­lish data accord­ing to the FAIR prin­ci­ples.

Check out the web­page!

• Vacan­cies for new data stew­ards

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente library is recruit­ing Research Data Stew­ards to sup­port the imple­men­ta­tion of research data man­age­ment and FAIR data with­in uni­ver­si­ty fac­ul­ties.

Read more about these vacan­cies and apply by 13th Sep­tem­ber.

• Vacan­cy for a Data Man­ag­er

Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy is look­ing for a Data Man­ag­er to join its vibrant and inter­na­tion­al Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre (DCC) team. 

Read more about this vacan­cy and apply by 1st Sep­tem­ber.

Process Dis­cov­ery Con­test 2020

Author: Eric Ver­beek
Insti­tu­tion: Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy
Cat­e­gories: Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems
Key­words: Arti­fi­cial event logs, Task Force on Process Min­ing, Process Dis­cov­ery Con­test; PDC 2020

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An agent-based process min­ing archi­tec­ture for emer­gent behav­ior analy­sis

Author(s): Rob Bemthuis, Mar­ti­jn Koot, Mar­ti­jn Mes, Faiza Bukhsh, Maria-Euge­nia Iacob and Nir­vana Mer­at­nia
Insti­tu­tion: Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente
Cat­e­gories: Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems, Busi­ness and Man­age­ment
Key­words: Dis­crete event sim­u­la­tion, Emer­gent behav­ior, Event logs, Job-shop, Mul­ti-agent sys­tem, Process min­ing, Sup­ply chain logis­tics

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Bio-inspired intent com­mu­ni­ca­tion for auto­mat­ed vehi­cles

Author(s): Max Oud­shoorn, Joost de Win­ter, Pavlo Bazilin­skyy, Dim­i­tra Dodou
Insti­tu­tion: Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy
Cat­e­gories: Auto­mo­tive Engi­neer­ing, Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences
Key­words: Auto­mat­ed Vehi­cles, Exter­nal Human-Machine Inter­face, Bio-inspired, Intent com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Crowd­sourc­ing

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• EMBL EBI: Bioin­for­mat­ics For Prin­ci­pal Inves­ti­ga­tors

4TU.ResearchData’s data train­er, Eiri­ni Zorm­pa, and com­mu­ni­ty man­ag­er, Con­nie Clare, deliv­ered a 3‑hour work­shop on ‘Plan­ning your data man­age­ment’ dur­ing the Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Insti­tute (EMBL-EBI) course on ‘Bioin­for­mat­ics for Prin­ci­pal Inves­ti­ga­tors’.

Read about the work­shop and see the slides.

• FAIR Data & Good Prac­tice of Sci­ence

The recent the­mat­ic ses­sion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente’s Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre focused on ‘FAIR Data & The Good Prac­tice of Sci­ence.’

The ses­sion kicked off with an intro­duc­tion to  the FAIR Data Prin­ci­ples by Luiz Boni­no Da Sil­va San­tos, fol­lowed by a pre­sen­ta­tion about FAIR Data in Cit­i­zen Sci­ence by Michelle Kip and Ria Wolko­rte. 

Read the blog and watch the record­ing.