Celebrating 10.000 datasets!

We’re very pleased to announce that we have reached 10.000 datasets pub­lished in our repos­i­to­ry — what an amaz­ing achieve­ment!

Our dig­i­tal repos­i­to­ry sup­ports Find­able, Acces­si­ble, Inter­op­er­a­ble and Reusable (FAIR) data and soft­ware by offer­ing cura­tion, shar­ing, long-term access and preser­va­tion. From 2023 the infra­struc­ture on which the repos­i­to­ry runs — called Dje­huty — is avail­able as free and open source soft­ware. 

Dur­ing the past few years, 4TU.ResearchData has devel­oped a strong com­mu­ni­ty of researchers and data pro­fes­sion­als around its repos­i­to­ry. We’re extreme­ly grate­ful to them and to all our col­leagues for their work and con­tri­bu­tions — this mile­stone could not have been reached with­out all of you!

Madeleine de Smaele, Repos­i­to­ry Man­ag­er 4TU.ResearchData, says about the achieve­ment: “The repos­i­to­ry has grown con­sid­er­ably in recent years. The aware­ness that research data must be deposit­ed FAIR is increas­ing and more and more researchers under­stand that this requires a reli­able, cer­ti­fied repos­i­to­ry pro­vid­ing assis­tance where need­ed. Being close­ly con­nect­ed to our com­mu­ni­ty and under­stand­ing their needs is much appre­ci­at­ed”.