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23 February 2024

Data Steward, the fastest growing job

RDM Collaborations Training & Outreach

According to LinkedIn, the profession of Data Steward is gaining popularity, ranking second in its list of the twenty fastest-growing professions of 2024. This trend comes as no surprise in the scientific community, where the importance of FAIR and open data for open science is increasingly recognised. Initiatives, projects, and communities are springing up rapidly, and universities, colleges, and knowledge institutes are increasingly appointing Data Stewards. We are also witnessing a steady rise in Digital Competence Centres.

29 January 2024

How to deposit personal data?

FAIR and Open data RDM Consultancy

The European Data Protection Day is the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 on the protection of personal data. It is the first legally binding international data protection law, and is celebrated every year, on 28 January, by the 47 countries of the Council of Europe and the EU institutions. As a researcher, you are responsible for protecting the privacy of data you collect during your scientific research. We would like to help you get started on how best to do this. This article gives you a quick overview.

19 January 2024

10 steps towards privacy compliance in research

FAIR and Open data Training & Outreach

In the context of European Data Protection Day, we want to highlight a new publication from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, on Zenodo that is useful for researchers collecting data. This PDF is a kind of checklist or workflow that researchers can refer to when it comes to data privacy and research.

8 December 2023

Two institutions added to DataverseNL

DataverseNL

From 1 December, Erasmus Medical Centre has been using the research data repository DataverseNL, followed by Utrecht University of Applied Sciences from 1 January. This brings the number of participating institutes to twenty-two.

5 December 2023

Data Station Life Sciences launched

Life Sciences

The DANS Data Station for the Life Sciences, enabling researchers and data professionals in the Medical, Health, and Green Life Sciences to digitally archive and publish research data, is now live.

27 November 2023

An archaeological journey through the landscape of Nijmegen

Archaeology

Regularly, while curating datasets, we come across gems that deserve to be highlighted. This certainly applies to the dataset containing a geomorphogenetic map of Nijmegen-North, the Netherlands, which is available in the Data Station Archaeology. This map reveals the palaeogeographic and soil data of the area and offers a wealth of information.