MONTHLY ROUND-UP: October 2021

• Wel­come to 10 new com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers!

• Artur Schwei­dt­mann (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy)
• Luiz Boni­no da Sil­va San­tos (Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente) 
• Leila Ghar­avi (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy)
• Nivedi­ta Var­ma Harise­na (ETH Zurich)
• Gerd Kortuem (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy) 
• Jean Marc ter Riet (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy) 
• Chrissie Tase­laar (Roy­al Nether­lands Mete­o­ro­log­i­cal Insti­tute, KNMI) 
• Sid Kumar (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy) 
• Jan van der Heul (4TU.ResearchData)
• Sara Priem (Insti­tute of Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine Antwerp)

• Is the robe in that paint­ing vel­vet or satin?

How do you recog­nise when a robe worn by a paint­ing sub­ject is vel­vet, or the cup on the table is made of sil­ver, when your eyes only see swirls of paint?

TU Delft Indus­tri­al Design researcher, Mitchell van Zui­jlen, explored this as part of his doc­tor­al research result­ing in the Mate­ri­als in Paint­ings Dataset, a repos­i­to­ry of 20,000 paint­ings col­lect­ed from muse­ums all around the world, includ­ing Amsterdam’s Rijksmu­se­um, the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art in New York City, and The Pra­do Muse­um in Madrid.

Read the full sto­ry (Writ­ten by Mol­ly Quell) 

• Watch the record­ing of our com­mu­ni­ty call on ‘Man­ag­ing health and tech­nol­o­gy research data’

Thank you to all who joined our recent call!

It was great to wel­come par­tic­i­pants from dif­fer­ent research insti­tu­tions to have a dis­cus­sion about…

• ‘LCRDM Med­ical device reg­u­la­tion’ with Anne Aarts (Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy)
• ‘Hand Neu­ro-Motor Char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion: Pub­lish­ing med­ical data’ with Kostas Niza­mis (Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente)

Read the blog and watch the record­ing

• Wel­come to new CiTG data stew­ard: Lora Arm­strong

Lora has a  back­ground is in lab­o­ra­to­ry-based geol­o­gy research, but a grow­ing inter­est in data led her to leave acad­e­mia to work on data sci­ence and open data ini­tia­tives for the gov­ern­ment of Lon­don. After mov­ing to the Nether­lands, she worked as a data man­ag­er before becom­ing a data stew­ard in the Fac­ul­ty of Civ­il Engi­neer­ing and Geo­sciences at TU Delft. 

Unfa­vor­able Inter­ac­tions Enhance Vapor Absorp­tion in Mixed Poly­mer Brush­es

Author(s): Leon Smook, Gui­do Rit­se­ma van Eck and Sis­si de Beer
Insti­tu­tion: Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente
Cat­e­gories: The­o­ret­i­cal and Com­pu­ta­tion­al Chem­istry; Macro­mol­e­c­u­lar and Mate­ri­als Chem­istry
Key­words: Enhanced Absorp­tion; Vapor Absorp­tion; Mixed Poly­mer Brush. 

View the dataset

Join the team at Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy

TU/Eindhoven’s Tech­nol­o­gy Data Man­age­ment & Library ser­vices team are recruit­ing a new data stew­ard and data man­ag­er. 

• Apply for the data stew­ard vacan­cy
• Apply for the data man­ag­er vacan­cy

Apply by 7th Novem­ber.

4TU.ResearchData on FAIR data

Con­nie Clare and Kees den Hei­jer were invit­ed to present about the 4TU.ResearchData repos­i­to­ry, ser­vices and com­mu­ni­ty at a recent Figshare webi­nar on FAIR data. 

Down­load our slides. 

Event high­lights!

• How to man­age data: Data Stew­ard­ship & FAIR skills. Read the blog by Lau­rent Gat­to & Mar­ta Teperek. 
• UT DCC: What’s in it for me? Read the blog by Zafer Özturk. 
• Share, Inspire, Impact by TU Delft’s Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre. Read the blog by Deirdre Casel­la.
• Rewards and recog­ni­tion in the con­text of Open Sci­ence by Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ty Twente. Watch the record­ing & see the slides. 

Data Hor­ror Week at VU Ams­ter­dam

VU Ams­ter­dam cel­e­brat­ed Data Hor­ror Week 2021 by organ­is­ing var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty activ­i­ties… 

• Online Data Hor­ror Escape Room
• Data Con­ver­sa­tions and data hor­ror sto­ries
• Read the data hor­ror sto­ry, ‘PhD in 4- 5, 6, 7′ by TU Delft data stew­ard, Esther Plomp.