Open and FAIR in NES

Cécile van Heukelom February 5, 2025

When: 22–23 May
Loca­tion: Social Impact Fac­to­ry Vre­den­burg, Vre­den­burg 40, 3511 BD, Utrecht (get direc­tions)

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Are you inter­est­ed in the top­ics of open research and FAIR data? Then join the first mini-con­fer­ence on Open and FAIR prac­tices in Nat­ur­al & Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences this spring!

The mini-con­fer­ence will be held from 22 to 23 May, at the Social Impact Fac­to­ry Vre­den­burg in Utrecht, as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between 4TU.ResearchData, TDCC NES (The The­mat­ic Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre for the Nat­ur­al & Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences) and Open Sci­ence com­mu­ni­ties. Dur­ing this event we will also cel­e­brate the 15th anniver­sary of 4TU.ResearchData! Join us and con­nect with like-mind­ed peo­ple and net­work in an inspir­ing and relaxed envi­ron­ment.

What to expect

Open and FAIR prac­tices final­ly meet in the field of NES, with the goal of address­ing dis­ci­pline-spe­cif­ic prob­lems and find­ing solu­tions togeth­er. We invite you to two days of pan­el dis­cus­sions with experts and inno­va­tors in Nat­ur­al Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing, work­shops and pitch­es by dif­fer­ent peo­ple work­ing in the field, researchers, pol­i­cy mak­ers, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. 

The main themes of the event are Fund­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties, FAIR research prac­tices, and Open Schol­ar­ly Infra­struc­ture. For each theme, we are organ­is­ing a pan­el dis­cus­sion to inspire our com­mu­ni­ties. The pan­els will be fol­lowed by pitch­es, pre­sen­ta­tions, and work­shops by our com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers.

Sched­ule

Event Agenda

Note: All ses­sions are held in the Eventspace, unless marked as par­al­lel ses­sions in oth­er rooms.

  • 10:30 Walk-in, get­ting to know each oth­er
  • 11:00 Offi­cial wel­come by the orga­niz­ers
  • 11:30 Pan­el on FAIR research prac­tices
    Raul Zuri­ta Mil­la (UT), Liz Guz­man-Ramirez (TU/e), Paula Mar­tinez Lavanchy (TU Delft), John Swin­bank (ASTRON), Zafer Ozturk (UT)
  • 12:15 Lunch, Mar­ket­place and Net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties
    Mar­ket­place Posters and Activ­i­ties:

    NFDI4ING & Base4NFDI — research data man­age­ment ser­vices with­in and beyond Ger­many’s nation­al research data infra­struc­ture for engi­neer­ing sci­ences
    Évariste Demandt (RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­si­ty)

    Jour­nal with FAIR Prin­ci­ples: Sup­port­ing Open­ness in Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences
    Agnes Klein­hans (TU Darm­stadt)

    Data man­age­ment and visu­al­i­sa­tion with QHar­bor data plat­form
    Alber­to Tosato (TU Delft)

    Data Stew­ard Cur­ricu­lum — Skills4EOSC project
    Nida van Leer­sum & Saba Shar­ma (TU Delft)

    Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ties NL (OSCNL)
    Games by the Ghost Col­lec­tive

  • 13:30 Par­al­lel work­shops 1

Work­shop 1Work­shop 2Work­shop 3Work­shop 4
Room: EventspaceRoom: BerlinRoom: Bei­jingRoom: Barcelona
Gam­i­fy­ing Per­son­al Research Data Train­ing
Car­la Strub­bia (TU Delft), Narmin Rza­ye­va (TU Delft)

Learn how struc­tured cours­es and gam­i­fi­ca­tion can enhance per­son­al research data man­age­ment skills and help pro­mote FAIR data prin­ci­ples, engage­ment, and knowl­edge exchange.

Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty in prac­tice: the case of NetCDF data for­mat
Leila Iñi­go de la Cruz (4TU.ResearchData)

Explore inter­op­er­a­ble data for­mats in sci­en­tif­ic work­flows; learn how to access and ana­lyze NetCDF files remote­ly through the OPeN­DAP pro­to­col using Python.

How to make your research soft­ware ready for pub­lish­ing?
Serkan Gir­gin (UT)

Learn how to use Code Audi­tor to assess research soft­ware qual­i­ty, iden­ti­fy issues, and solve them to enhance FAIR­ness of your soft­ware.

TDCC-NES project ideas for 2025 (pri­or sign-up required)

Pitch and dis­cuss your project ideas to tai­lor them to TDCC-NES require­ments.

  • 14:15 Break for room change
  • 14:30 Par­al­lel work­shops 2

Talks and pitch­esWork­shop 1Work­shop 2Work­shop 3
Room: EventspaceRoom: BerlinRoom: Bei­jingRoom: Barcelona
Orga­niz­ing FAIR Sci­en­tif­ic Knowl­edge from Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences Using the Open Research Knowl­edge Graph: The Tai­lored Form­ing Process Chain Use Case
Oliv­er Kar­ras (TIB)

Cat­alyz­ing plant nat­ur­al prod­uct dis­cov­ery with a com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven linked knowl­edge base
Ele­na Del Pup (WUR)

Mul­ti-plat­form-mul­ti-stor­age iRODS of TU Delft
Far­dad Magh­sou­di (TU Delft)

Trans­paren­cy in Reg­u­la­to­ry and Com­pli­ance Eval­u­a­tions
Liz Guz­man-Ramirez (TU/e)

Non-tech­ni­cal skills for Research Soft­ware Engi­neers
Niket Agraw­al (TU Delft)

Cre­ate your insti­tu­tion­al research soft­ware tem­plate eas­i­ly!
Manuel Gar­cia Alvarez (TU Delft)

Dis­cov­er how to use the open-source Meta Tem­plate to design a cus­tomized research soft­ware tem­plate, ensur­ing stan­dard­ized devel­op­ment prac­tices with­in your insti­tu­tion.

Bridg­ing research com­mu­ni­ties in the Nether­lands with FAIR soft­ware: Brain Dynam­ics with Galerk­in­Toolk­it
Francesc Ver­dugo, Daniele Avitabile (VU Ams­ter­dam)

Explore Galerk­in­Toolk­it, a mul­ti-pur­pose soft­ware library allow­ing researchers to build their own sim­u­la­tion codes by means of a selec­tion of build­ing blocks.

Dje­huty: Past, present and future of the 4TU.ResearchData repos­i­to­ry
Roel Janssen (4TU.ResearchData)

Learn about the evo­lu­tion of Dje­huty, and par­tic­i­pate in the future of the free and open source repos­i­to­ry soft­ware that dri­ves the 4TU.ResearchData repos­i­to­ry.

  • 15:15 Cel­e­brate 15 years of Research Data
    Talks by Mar­jolein Dohmen-Janssen (4TU) and Daniel Bangert (4TU.ResearchData)
    Cel­e­brate togeth­er with drinks, snacks and live music and learn about the past and future of 4TU.ResearchData, data and soft­ware repos­i­to­ry for sci­ence, engi­neer­ing and design.
  • 16:00 Bor­rel
  • 16:45 Clos­ing day 1

Event Schedule

Note: All ses­sions are held in the Eventspace, unless marked as par­al­lel ses­sions in oth­er rooms.

  • 9:30–11:15 Par­al­lel work­shops 1
Talks and net­work­ingWork­shop
Room: EventspaceRoom: Berlin and Buenos Aires
Walk-in, get­ting to know each oth­er.

10:30
Get to know Data Foundry, an Open-Source Design Data Plat­form to Sup­port Dig­i­tal Pro­to­typ­ing
Diede van Mar­le (TU/e)

Dis­cov­er the func­tion­al­i­ties of Data Foundry, a design data plat­form devel­oped by TU/e Indus­tri­al Design to sup­port researchers pro­to­typ­ing with con­nect­ed devices.

Data man­age­ment and visu­al­i­sa­tion with QHar­bor data plat­form
Alber­to Tosato (TU Delft)

QHar­bor is a FAIR data man­age­ment plat­form for stor­ing sci­en­tif­ic datasets in a secure, orga­nized, and sim­ple way.

Project ideas match­mak­ing ses­sion for NWO call TDCC-NES
Host­ed by the team of the The­mat­ic DCC Nat­ur­al & Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences

Join this ses­sion to brain­storm project ideas and/or find oth­ers to join forces with. No mat­ter if you already have a project idea, you want to give input on ideas of oth­ers, or you want to find a project to be involved in: This is the ses­sion for you.

  • 11:15–11:30 Cof­fee break
  • 11:30–12:15 Pan­el on Fund­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties in NES
    Speak­ers: Mar­ta Teperek (NWO), Emmy Tsang (Invest in Open Infra­struc­tures), Bur­cu Koop­mans-Beygu (Rijk­suni­ver­siteit Gronin­gen), Joanne Yeo­mans (TDCC-NES), Tanya Yankele­vich (mod­er­a­tor, Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ty Delft)
  • 12:15–13:30 Lunch break, mar­ket­place and net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties
    Mar­ket­place Posters and Activ­i­ties:
    NFDI4ING & Base4NFDI – research data man­age­ment ser­vices with­in and beyond Ger­many’s nation­al research data infra­struc­ture for engi­neer­ing sci­ences
    Évariste Demandt (RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­si­ty)

    Jour­nal with FAIR Prin­ci­ples: Sup­port­ing Open­ness in Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences
    Agnes Klein­hans (TU Darm­stadt)

    Data man­age­ment and visu­al­i­sa­tion with QHar­bor data plat­form
    Alber­to Tosato (TU Delft)

    The Nether­lands Repro­ducibil­i­ty Net­work (NLRN)
    Daniela Gawehns

    Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ties NL (OSCNL)

    The­mat­ic Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre Nat­ur­al and Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences
    Joanne Yeo­mans (TDCC-NES)

    Games by the Ghost Col­lec­tive

  • 13:30–14:15 Par­al­lel work­shops 2
Pitch­esTalksWork­shop
Room: EventspaceRoom: Buenos AiresRoom: Berlin
FAIR Meta­da­ta stan­dards for drone/UAV
Flo­ri­an J. Ell­säßer (UT), Alice Nikuze (UT)

Design­ing a Paired Omics Data Resource for Plant Nat­ur­al Prod­uct Dis­cov­ery
Feli­cia Wolters (WUR)

The need for a mod­ellers net­work with focus on gov­er­nance & prac­tice
Geerten Hengeveld (NIOO-KNAW)

LTER-LIFE & NEMNET; part­ner­ing with Dutch Large Sci­en­tif­ic Research Infra­struc­tures
Geerten Hengeveld (NIOO-KNAW), Arnout de Bru­in (RIVM)

Open Hard­ware Stim­u­la­tion Fund
San­tosh Ilam­paruthi (TU Delft)

We will delve into the chal­lenges encoun­tered in man­ag­ing the fund, share key lessons learned along the way, and high­light the tan­gi­ble out­puts made pos­si­ble through this sup­port.

iRODS: Yoda and Man­Go
Far­dad Magh­sou­di (TU Delft), Brett Olivi­er (VU Ams­ter­dam)

Among var­i­ous data man­age­ment plat­forms, iRODS (Inte­grat­ed Rule-Ori­ent­ed Data Man­age­ment) has gained pop­u­lar­i­ty due to its cus­tomiz­abil­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty. Join the work­shop to learn about the two inter­faces of the plat­form.

Open and FAIR in design
Serkan Gir­gin (UT), Math­ias Funk (TU/e)

Let’s dis­cuss Open Data and FAIR prac­tices in design research and how domain-spe­cif­ic data repos­i­to­ries and archives com­ple­ment gen­er­al research archives, with the Data Foundry as an exam­ple case.

  • 14:45–15:30 Pan­el on Open Schol­ar­ly Infra­struc­tures
    Speak­ers: Matt Buys (Dat­aCite), Thomas van Him­ber­gen (SURF), David Groep (Nikhef), Fred­erique Bel­liard (TU Delft), Daniel (mod­er­a­tor – 4TU.ResearchData)
  • 15:30–15:45 Clos­ing remarks day 2

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