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Category: Research Support Update


  • FAIR Coffee

    FAIR Coffee – The flip side of FAIR: How do researchers find and reuse data?

    In this session of the FAIR Coffee lectures, on Tuesday 15 February 2022 at 11 am, we’ve invited Dr. Kathleen Gregory. In her lecture titled “The flip side of FAIR: How do researchers find and reuse data”, she focuses on the practices of researchers who are finding and reusing data.

  • Learn about the FAIR principles for Research Data Management

    FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Reusable, Interoperable) means human-friendly and machine-friendly data. Do you want to know more about how to implement the FAIR principles for research data management (RDM)? Then watch this instruction video made by Pedro Hernandez Serrano, an RDM specialist at Maastricht University Library.

  • DataHub sprint review

    Join the next DataHub sprint review with sprint goal “Get ready to customize your metadata in Maastricht Data Repository”

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    FAIR Essentials Course

    As a researcher, you have probably heard about the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. Nevertheless, how do you make research data FAIR? Sign up for this hands-on training on 8 February 2022 and learn what FAIR is and what it means for different disciplines.

  • Looking back on the last RDM Experts Community meeting of 2021

    On 14 December, we organised the last Research Data Management (RDM) Experts Community meeting of 2021 for RDM support professionals from Maastricht University and MUMC+. The program consisted of a demo of the Ldot Application by David Moonen from MEMIC and a presentation on the REDSUM project by FASoS.

  • FAIR Coffee

    FAIR Coffee lecture with Prof. Michel Dumontier

    This third session of the FAIR Coffee lectures, on 14 January 2022 at 11.00, features Prof. Michel Dumontier. He is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and Director of IDS, and co-founder of the FAIR data principles. The lecture will cover FAIR assessment tools.

  • Looking back at 2021: Implementing and following up on Generic Research Data Management Trainings

    In winter 2019, the Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) course was part of the University Library’s RDM and FAIR data workshops (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Since then, a cyberattack and global pandemic have taken place, which led us to reinvent the existing RDM module and create new ones.

  • NPOS2030 Ambition Consultation

    The Netherlands National Program Open Science (NPOS) needs your help

    The National Programme Open Science (NPOS), in which UM is also participating, has set up an Open Consultation to allow you to reflect on the NPOS2030 Ambitions. Find out more about the NPOS2030 Ambition Document and the link to the consultation.

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    RDM Experts Community Meeting

    We are happy to announce the last RDM experts meeting for this calendar year! Our meeting will take place on 14 December 2021 from 15:30 to 17:00. Unfortunately, the current health situation has taken us back to the online environment. We nonetheless hope to have an exciting afternoon.

  • Workshop on Data Carpentry with Python

    The Netherlands eScience Center is organising an online workshop in December. The topic is “Data Carpentry with Python”. The workshop is open and free to all researchers in the Netherlands. This workshop teaches fundamental data skills for research.