Leiden University Data Stewards Day 2022

Who are Leiden University Data Stewards? On 30 June 2022, we held our first Data Stewardship Day: bringing together first-line and second-line research data management support staff to get to know each other and learn more about RDM-related developments taking place at Leiden University and beyond.

Joanne Yeomans • September 07, 2022

Celebrating a decade of RDM professionals in The Netherlands

The LCRDM Network Day marked a decade of Research Data Management support across The Netherlands and celebrated the people necessary for RDM to happen. Staff from across the country joined to reflect on the value they have added to research and the challenges that the next decade will bring.

Joanne Yeomans • April 12, 2022

Hackathons – not only for techies

The Leiden University Data Management Network enjoyed a safari tour around the data hackathons that have recently either taken place at Leiden, or involved people from Leiden. After clarifying what hackathons really are, and how everyone benefits, we brainstormed some ideas for future hackathons.

Joanne Yeomans and Kristina Hettne • March 22, 2022

FAIR data's cutting edge

A three-point FAIRification framework was developed during the pandemic to pilot different ways of making COVID-19 data FAIR. Representatives from three cutting edge projects came to discuss with the Data Management Network the success of these, and the opportunities for new activities at Leiden.

Joanne Yeomans and Kristina Hettne • May 06, 2021

Delivering data management training at Leiden

How is data management training delivered across the university? What can we share and learn from each other? And how can we make the most of what’s available? The Data Management Network met to learn about and discuss these topics.

Joanne Yeomans • November 09, 2020

Learn about data management concepts in this online Data Horror Escape Room

Our new digital escape room introduces some basic data management concepts and offers a fun way to educate and to prompt discussions with researchers.

Joanne Yeomans and Guest author • October 30, 2020

Delivering data management training remotely

The Centre for Digital Scholarship normally delivers training in face-to-face sessions on campus but in April we delivered our first remote training session and addressed some of the new challenges that researchers face whilst working from home.

Joanne Yeomans and Fieke Schoots • May 07, 2020

The Centre for Digital Scholarship responds to Coronavirus

With the announcement on Friday 13 March that the Leiden University Libraries would close and that all people in the Netherlands should take steps to avoid social contact, the CDS team packed up their laptops and prepared to work from home. What does this mean for the services that we deliver?

Joanne Yeomans • March 19, 2020

If you love your data, share it!

On 28 January we piloted our new workshop “How to publish your data” in which we discuss with researchers what decisions to make and what steps to take to publish their data in a public repository.

Michelle van den Berk, Kristina Hettne and Joanne Yeomans • February 14, 2020

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