Organised by the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, the event covered an extensive spectrum of digital scholarship topics, from open access to research data management and data analysis.

Participants could choose from 13 sessions, either attending them individually or combining them for a broader introduction to digital scholarship. They could follow workshops on research data management (“Publishing data in a data repository”, “FAIRification tutorial”, “FAIR Implementation Profiles”, “Hard-to-share non-personal data”), open access and copyright (“Copyright and Open Access for PhDs”), and data analysis (“Cleaning data with OpenRefine” and “Creating maps with Leaflet and QGIS”). In addition, the programme featured lectures and discussions on Read & Publish deals, dilemmas in scholarly communication, and on a researcher’s journey from ‘bad’ to excellent research data management practices. Participants also had the opportunity to engage in knowledge exchange and networking meetings. Around a third of the 73 ‘unique’ participants attended two or more sessions (there were a total of 107 non-unique participants).

The sessions were mainly attended by early career researchers and research professionals. Workshops like “Cleaning data with OpenRefine”, for example, were not only relevant for researchers, but also for research professionals working with datasets, such as statistics on open access data. Other sessions, like the data stewards knowledge exchange and the training on hard-to-share data, were targeted at research professionals, specifically those working in research data management support.

Both participants and trainers / organisers have given positive feedback. Especially the discussions during the smaller, interactive sessions went into considerable depth and were felt to be interesting and worthwhile by both sides.

Looking forward

Building on the success of this year’s event, we are excited to announce that a fourth CDS Summer Training Week is already in the works. Mark your calendars for 8 to 12 June 2026!

If you are interested in the topics, but were not able to attend and do not want to wait until June 2026, contact us at cds@library.leidenuniv.nl and we’d be happy to explore the possibility of repeating the session you are interested in. Some of the above workshops are already being planned to take place again during the coming academic year, while slides and other information of some of the sessions have been shared on the CDS Zenodo community, the CDS github, and by one of the speakers, Bjørn Bartholdy (Evolution of a researcher’s data management practices).

This blog was guest edited by Kayla Varga.

Banner image by Nathan Cowley, through Pexels.

More information: The full programme of the 2025 CDS Summer Training Week