Data Management

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.

FAIR data

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.

FAIR data · Open Science

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.

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!

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.

Love Data Week 2025 @CDS

It’s International Love Data Week! The theme this year is “Whose data is it, anyway?” This week, we at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship share our love of data through the following events.

Who 'owns' (your) research data?

Do you ever wonder who owns research data? And did you know this may not be you as a researcher?

FAIR data · Research Data Management Network · Easy ways to improve your research data management

Easy ways to improve your research data management: file formats

Research data management can seem daunting and time consuming. In this series we introduce some -relatively- straightforward ways of improving your data management, starting with file formats.

My internship experience at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University Libraries

On her last day, Centre for Digital Scholarship intern Vanessa Köstner reflects on her four months at the Leiden University Libraries: