Finalists announced of this year’s Dutch Data Prize!

Award ceremony

The finalists are invited to present their dataset during a 90-second pitch at the award ceremony on October 17. “We see this as an opportunity for the finalists to draw attention to their work in making their research dataset FAIR and also to enhance their research impact. A moment of fame as it were, and well deserved”, says Dr Claudia van Oppen, jury chair for the Dutch Data Prize 2024 and Director of Maastricht University Library. The winners will be announced and awarded on Thursday, October 17. The award ceremony will also be broadcast live.

Meet the finalists

Every two years, the Dutch Data Prize is awarded to an individual or a team that makes reusable research data available in a repository. The prize is a valuable recognition of researchers’ contributions to their field and to the principles of FAIR data. In each of the categories Social Sciences & Humanities, Life Sciences & Health, and Natural & Engineering Sciences there have been selected three datasets that meet the criteria and stand out from the rest. Check out the finalists on the RDNL website.

If you wish to attend the award ceremony of the Dutch Data Prize and the FAIR-IMPACT National roadshow, make sure to register to save your spot.

Finalists in the category of Natural and Engineering Sciences are:

• Impact-Aware Robotics Database – Maarten Jongeneel, Alessandro Saccon – Eindhoven University of Technology;
• The FAIR Model Catalog for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling Research – Pedro Paulo Favato Barcelos – University of Twente
• High-resolution SPH simulations of a 2D dam-break flow against a vertical wall – Giordano Lipari, Cornelis Vuik – Watermotion | Waterbeweging and Delft University of Technology

Finalists in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities are:

• Corpus Gesproken Nederlands – Nelleke Oostdijk – Radboud Universiteit
• Generations and Gender Survey – Olga Grunwald, Anne Gauthier – Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
• European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG) – Raphaël Troncy, Pasquale Lisena, Thibault Ehrhart, Marieke van Erp – Eurecom France and Humanities Cluster, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Finalists in the category of Life Sciences and Health are:

• Xeno-canto – Willem-Pier Vellinga, Bob Planqué – Stichting Xeno-canto voor natuurgeluiden
• Brassicaceae Tree of Life – Kasper Hendriks – Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster – Marnix Medema – Wageningen University and Research

Dutch Data Prize

Every two years, the Dutch Data Prize is awarded to an individual or a team that makes reusable research data available in a repository. The prize is a valuable recognition of researchers’ contributions to their field and to the principles of FAIR data. The prize money is intended to further improve the FAIRness of data and encourage data reuse. Winners can, for example, use the funds to organise a symposium or enhance the accessibility of their data online.

The Dutch Data Prize has been awarded since 2010. These were the previous winners.