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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.

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.

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!

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.

FAIR data

How will we exchange digital research data in the future?

The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects in Leiden offer a vision of a more accessible future for research data.