CDS Summer Training Week 2026: research support from A to Z Femmy Admiraal, Fleur Praal and Ben Companjen • June 29, 2026
Your field notes are valuable research data - so share them When conducting research fieldwork we generally produce field notes, often as the primary data source or as contextualisation of other gathered data such as interviews. Here, I argue that these are an important part of the research dataset and should be shared as openly as possible. Pascal Flohr • May 07, 2026
Demystifying research data interoperability Of the FAIR principles, the ones relating to interoperability are the most challenging. Ari Asmi of the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship is an interoperability expert and organised a workshop in February 2026, the key highlights of which are illustrated in this blog. Ari Asmi, Alex Brandsen, Dani Metilli, Walter Baccinelli and Vedran Kasalica • March 24, 2026
Love Data Week: And where is *your* data? It's (almost) Love Data Week! The theme this year is 'Where 's the data?'. In this blog Femmy Admiraal of the Leiden University Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship explains where you can publish your dataset and tells us more about the Leiden University in-house DataverseNL repository. Femmy Admiraal • February 05, 2026
Transcribing Kartini: Using handwritten text recognition technology to unlock UNESCO 'Memory of the World' letters During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Kayla Varga used an approach combining AI and human input to make reading historic letters more accessible and efficient. Kayla Varga • January 21, 2026
GO FAIR Foundation Fellowship: Implementing FAIR data practices at Leiden University Recently qualified GO FAIR Foundation Three-Point FAIRification Framework facilitators Kristina Hettne and Alessa Gambardella write about what this is, their training, and implementing FAIR data practices at Leiden University. Kristina Hettne and Alessa Gambardella • December 03, 2025
The why, how and what of publishing research data Each year, on the first Thursday of November, World Digital Preservation Day is celebrated. In honor of today, we share our thoughts on depositing research data in a data repository. Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Femmy Admiraal • November 06, 2025
Impact on ownership when choosing an NC or ND Creative Commons Licence Did you know you may be giving away some of your author rights to the publisher when you choose an open access licence which prohibits commercial reuse or production of derivatives (i.e. by applying a CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC-ND licence)? Heleen Palmen and Erna Sattler • October 08, 2025
The CDS Summer Training Week 2025: looking back and useful materials going forward From 23 to 27 June, the third CDS Summer Training Week brought together over 70 participants for a series of workshops, lectures, and interactive sessions. Pascal Flohr and Peter Verhaar • August 11, 2025
How can we monitor where Leiden researchers deposit their data? A comparative analysis between open sources Datasets are increasingly deposited and published by Leiden University researchers. But where do they do this and how can we find out? During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship and the CWTS, Korina Lemonidou researched this question. Korina Lemonidou • April 02, 2025
