What the University Library's Research Intelligence service can do for you
Research Intelligence
The University Library offers a new service for researchers, managers and executive staff: Research Intelligence. Coordinator Pam Kaspers explains what her team can do for you: 'We perform data analyses and create visualisations of research plans and output in Power BI. Researchers can use these visualisations to carry out self-evaluations for research assessments or to create final reports on research projects, for example. This way, researchers no longer have to create tables and visualisations themselves, which saves time.'
People are increasingly working from a number of different locations. It would be quite handy if international professionals could just pop over, meet up, and check results, without losing any time or suffering from jetlag. As yet, teleportation is beyond our grasp. As things stand, however, the next best option for holding meetings (video conferences) and webinars at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is Skype for Business. How might this benefit your collaborative projects?
Why & how to make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable
The FAIR principles were formulated in 2014 to guide data producers and publishers on how to increase the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of their data. The goal is to ensure that scholarly data can be used as widely as possible – accelerating scientific discoveries and benefiting society in the process. Applying even just some of the FAIR principles, will increase the visibility and impact of your data, leading to: increased citations of the datasets themselves and your research; improved reproducibility of your research; compliance with funder and publisher requirements.
‘Making your research data FAIR accelerates scientific discovery’
Albert Meroño Peñuela
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Albert Meroño Peñuela is an enthusiastic promotor of FAIR data. 'The amount of data available on the internet has grown immensely over the past few years. However to find, combine, access and reuse them is very difficult. We lose a lot of time "wrangling" the data: making them machine readable and ready to analyse. Therefore it is important that researchers make their data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.'
Write and share your data management plans in DMPonline
You can now use DMPonline to create and share your data management plans (DMPs). DMPonline offers DMP templates of funding agencies like NWO, ZonMw, ERC, Horizon2020 and Wellcome Trust, and also has a VU template. In the tool, you can benefit from guidance and example answers with the DMP questions. You can login securely with your VU credentials.
Making amateur archaeological collections accessible via Linked Open Data
In 2018, VU archaeologist Stijn Heeren and his team won the Dutch Data Prize for their project Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands (PAN). 'The jury really valued the way we're sharing the data through the PAN website, archiving it with DANS-Easy and structuring it via Linked Open Data. They also praised our use of citizen science', Heeren explains enthusiastically.
SEMINAR "I HATE / LOVE OPEN SCIENCE" – PUTTING OPEN SCIENCE INTO PRACTICE
Are you tired of talking about Open Science, and ready to start putting it into practice? Then come to this seminar with lectures and workshops, taught by researchers with hands on experience.
The speakers will illustrate the benefits of opening up your research practice, but will also prepare you for problems you might come across. Most importantly, they will give you practical information and tools to apply to your own research projects. Each workshop will focus on a different aspect of open science: data ownership in the humanities, meaningful citizen science, and standards for open data. A common theme in all workshops is that successful open science is often developed by a community of like-minded people.
You can participate in one of the three workshops.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019 Time: 13:00 - 16:30
