FAIR data in Science and Engineering

A community event hosted by 4TU.ResearchData

Wednesday, December 7th | 11.30 – 17.00 
Social Impact Factory, Utrecht

Welcome to the event for FAIR data pioneers!

This event is dedicated to researchers, RDM professionals, and academics who strive to make data FAIR in science and engineering. Find your community, and explore FAIR data in science and engineering. 

What is the event about?

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Program:

Pitch & match > 12.30 – 13.45
Members will pitch projects they need help with or launch a challenge they are trying to solve.
Everybody gets 5 minutes to pitch + 10 minutes of Q&A. Registration is required to submit a pitch.
It will follow a selection process based on relevance (for the whole community), and pertinence to the themes FAIR Data, Data management, education, and community engagement.
Registrations closed.

Breakout sessions > 14.00 – 16.45
This activity will last 45 minutes each with 15 minutes break in betwee.
Sessions:

• 14.00 – 14.45 > Discover 4TU.ResearchData’s Djehuty: the open source future of our data repository
  Host: Roel Janssen, Software developer, 4TU.ResearchData Facilitator: Alessandra Soro, Community Manager, 4TU.ResearchData   Djehuty, the new repository system, will be presented for the first time to the community! Roel Janssen, the developer behind the repository, will show the system and its functionalities in an interactive session. Afterward, participants will be able to actively contribute to the development of new functionalities and make suggestions to make Djehuty a tool for the community.
  

• 15.00 – 15.45 > Working groups: sharing findings and exploring new ideas
  Host: Zafer Öztürk, Data Steward FAIR, University of Twente

There are currently 4 active working groups you can join:

1. FAIR and Reproducible Code working group
   Presenter: Nicolas Dintzner, Data Steward, TU Delft Nicolas will be presenting the learning objectives of the working group shortly along with some important outputs of the working group. This working group brings data stewards together to learn about useful tools; writing, documenting, and testing code; version control and collaboration; pipelines for programming languages; and archiving and licensing of software code.
   
2. Privacy and GDPR working group.
   Presenter: Yan Wang, Data Stewardship Coordinator, TU Delft Yan has been actively participating in this working group and Yan will give a short talk about the working group and further highlight some important outputs This working group brings data stewards together to learn about the best practices for handling personal or commercially sensitive data.
   
3. Engagement and Education working group
   Presenter: Santosh Ilamparuthi, Data Steward, TU Delft The learning objectives and concrete outcomes of this working group will be introduced by Santosh. This working group brings data stewards together to explore opportunities for cross-institutional collaborations to deliver education and training for data supporters and researchers
   
4. Interactive brainstorming
   Host: Zafer Öztürk, Data Steward FAIR, University of Twente The last part of this breakout session will be dedicated to the challenges, new ideas that would fit the aforementioned working groups or the creation of possible new working groups. Zafer will guide you through this interactive last part. We are curious to hear more from you all!
   

• 16.00 – 16.30 > RDM professionals meet-up
  Hosts: Shauna Ní Fhlaithearta, Coordinator data management, WUR                                                    
  Joost Albers, Coordinator data steward network, WUR
  
  Each institute will exchange information about its data stewardship system and the associated opportunities and challenges.We will then apply the Community Participation model to understand how each institute addresses these challenges.

Communities in the spotlight > 16.30 – 17.00
This is an opportunity to discover other communities in data management, FAIR, and Open data. Members of the communities will share their experiences and highlight the importance of the role of communities in the scientific landscape.
Registrations closed.

Drinks and snacks > 17.00 – 18.30

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