This suc­cess­ful NWO Open Sci­ence fund project aims to devel­op and oper­a­tionalise the open-source soft­ware tool, Jupyter­FAIR, for seam­less, “one-click”, inte­gra­tion of research envi­ron­ments and data repos­i­to­ries, includ­ing meta­da­ta trans­fer and data qual­i­ty checks. 

We’re shap­ing the future of data-enabled design by inte­grat­ing ‘Data Foundry’, an online infra­struc­ture for pro­to­typ­ing and design­ing with data, and 4TU.ResearchData.

We’re assist­ing Alessan­dro and his team with the pub­li­ca­tion of data col­lec­tions in 4TU.ResearchData, and the inte­gra­tion of these col­lec­tions with their TU/e Impact-Aware Robot­ics Data­base.

A new project to imple­ment a solu­tion inte­grat­ing the FAIR Data Point with the 4TU.ResearchData repos­i­to­ry.

The sto­ry behind an RDNL Dutch Data Prize win­ning ‘STORM’ dataset that has been down­loaded almost 6,000 times since its pub­li­ca­tion in 4TU.ResearchData.

A com­put­er sci­en­tist shared ways of devel­op­ing meth­ods and tools that are Find­able, Acces­si­ble, Inter­op­er­a­ble and Reusable (FAIR). 

How can you tell more than 25,000 Orchid plant species apart? RDNL Dutch Data Prize win­ner, Diah, has devel­oped a tool to help.

Let’s rewind to when the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic first hit and com­mend the work of a stu­dent team who made a sig­nif­i­cant impact.

Here’s the sto­ry of a PhD researcher who mod­elled the ener­gy and the micro­cli­mate per­for­mance of the new urban dis­trict of Flo­ri­ade being con­struct­ed in the city of Almere in the Nether­lands.

An Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor shared his soft­ware mod­els for mod­i­fy­ing the pub­lic trans­port demand dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

Mark’s doc­tor­al stud­ies aimed to advance the wind ener­gy sec­tor one step fur­ther by devel­op­ing inno­v­a­tive and cost-effec­tive alter­na­tives to con­ven­tion­al wind tur­bines.

Mak­ing waves with WiFi data! Take a look at how human activ­i­ty affects the behav­iour of radio waves. 

Author(s): Rut­ger de Jong, Henk van den Hoogen, Fieke Schoots, Mar­iëtte van Selm and Madeleine de Smaele.

Insti­tu­tion: Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, UKB Work­ing Group Research Data

Cat­e­gories: Library and Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Pol­i­cy and Admin­is­tra­tion

Total down­loads: 5,347

Author(s): Boudewi­jn van Don­gen

Insti­tu­tion: Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy

Cat­e­gories: Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems, Busi­ness and Man­age­ment

Total down­loads: 3,015

Author(s): Joep van der Zan­der, Jan Rib­berink, Tom O’Donoghue, Dominic van der A, David Hur­ther, Peter Thorne and Iván Cáceres.

Insti­tu­tion: Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente

Cat­e­gories: Geol­o­gy, Phys­i­cal Geog­ra­phy and Envi­ron­men­tal Geo­science

Total down­loads: 1,430

Author(s): Pieter Blok, Eldert van Hen­ten, Frits van Evert and Gert Koot­stra

Insti­tu­tion: Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty & Research

Cat­e­gories: Agri­cul­ture, Land and Farm Man­age­ment,
Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Image Pro­cess­ing

Total down­loads: 881

Author(s): Khiem Trad

Insti­tu­tion: Flem­ish Insti­tute for Tech­no­log­i­cal Research (VITO)

Cat­e­gories: Ener­gy Stor­age, Dis­tri­b­u­tion and Sup­ply

Total down­loads: 5,684

The FAIR Data Fund offered researchers from the 4TU.ResearchData part­ner insti­tu­tions a bud­get (up to €3.500) to cov­er the costs of mak­ing their data FAIR.

Each one-hour long webi­nar brought around 30 atten­dees togeth­er from var­i­ous research insti­tu­tions to learn about:

In Jan­u­ary 2021, we launched work­ing groups for RDM sup­port pro­fes­sion­als from the 4TU.ResearchData part­ner insti­tu­tions to share expe­ri­ences and devel­op resources to ben­e­fit the research com­mu­ni­ty.

We cur­rent­ly have three active groups work­ing on top­ics relat­ing to:
FAIR & repro­ducible code
Pri­va­cy & GDPR
Engage­ment & edu­ca­tion

How do I get, use, trust, build upon and reuse your data?

Take a look at this series of five micro lec­tures on RDM for Bach­e­lor’s stu­dents!

A Data Access Com­mit­tee was devel­oped for the fac­ul­ty of Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing Math­e­mat­ics and Com­put­er Sci­ence (EEMCS) at TU Delft as a pilot ini­tia­tive to eval­u­ate the need for con­trolled access to per­son­al data with­in tech­ni­cal uni­ver­si­ties with­in the Nether­lands. 

Anne Aarts joined the team of data stew­ards at Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in May last year. She shared her expe­ri­ence of tran­si­tion­ing from can­cer epi­demi­ol­o­gist to data stew­ard dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

A day in the life of a data cura­tor: the steps, chal­lenges, and rewards of the data review process. Jan takes us behind the scenes to the back office of 4TU.ResearchData.

What are the chal­lenges and obser­va­tions of work­ing with inter­dis­ci­pli­nary data? Yan shares a data stew­ard’s per­spec­tive after attend­ing a ses­sion about the ‘Chal­lenges of Curat­ing Data from Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research’ at last year’s RDA Ple­nary.

Using sim­ple geospa­tial datasets as exam­ples, work­shop instruc­tors Ash­ley Cryan and Jose Urra Llanusa taught 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.

4TU.ResearchData’s FAIR and Repro­ducible Code Work­ing Group con­duct­ed an online ‘Train the Train­er’ work­shop for research data man­age­ment sup­port pro­fes­sion­als to learn best prac­tices for writ­ing FAIR soft­ware code. 

Train­er on Research Data Man­age­ment and Open Sci­ence, Eiri­ni Zorm­pa, attend­ed the Soft­ware Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Institute’s Col­lab­o­ra­tions Work­shop. Dur­ing the Hack Day, Eirini’s team won sec­ond place for their project ‘Cod­ing Con­fes­sions’. 

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Twen­te’s Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre organ­ised a the­mat­ic ses­sion that focused on what researchers should do with it after their research project is com­plete. Watch a demon­stra­tion of how to use 4TU.ResearchData to upload your data and code!

In this inter­ac­tive talk at the Hong Kong Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Research Data Man­age­ment Sym­po­sium 2021, Lau­rent Gat­to and Mar­ta Teperek join forces to offer some con­crete exam­ples on improv­ing research repro­ducibil­i­ty and trans­paren­cy.

A work­shop on ‘Plan­ning your data man­age­ment’ dur­ing the Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Insti­tute (EMBL-EBI) course on ‘Bioin­for­mat­ics for Prin­ci­pal Inves­ti­ga­tors’. Nine­teen inter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pants joined the work­shop to learn about data man­age­ment plans!