4TU.ResearchData and TDCC NES join forces

Image: Pre­sen­ta­tion of the TDCC at the LCRDM Net­work event. By: Anne­miek van der Kuil

The The­mat­ic Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­ter for the Nat­ur­al & Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences (TDCC NES) kicked off this Sep­tem­ber 2022.

Housed by 4TU.ResearchData, the TDCC NES is one the three TDCC’s fund­ed by NWO (togeth­er with Life Sci­ences and Social Sci­ences). The aim is to fur­ther facil­i­tate the imple­men­ta­tion of FAIR Data and Soft­ware by mit­i­gat­ing chal­lenges cur­rent­ly faced by the NES researchers in long term data and soft­ware preser­va­tion, inte­grat­ed tools of work­flow, spe­cif­ic meta­da­ta schemes and vocab­u­lar­ies. 

“Host­ing of TDCC NES is very impor­tant strate­gi­cal­ly for 4TU.ResearchData and for the 4TU.Federation as it brings about oppor­tu­ni­ties of clos­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with­in the entire domain of Nat­ur­al and Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences” says Mar­ta Teperek, Direc­tor of 4TU.ResearchData. 

The TDCC NES will be com­mu­ni­ty dri­ven, and has finan­cial means for a peri­od of 10 years to be able to sup­port project ini­tia­tives.  

“Cur­rent­ly we are in the process of hir­ing two staff mem­bers, build­ing the net­work, and have ini­ti­at­ed two bot­tle­neck projects. If you have ques­tions on the TDCC NES, please let us know by mail­ing to researchdata@4tu.nl “ adds Jacqueli­jn Ringers­ma, TDCC NES Net­work Man­ag­er.