Data Processing & Storage Finder

“AthenaDesktop” is a fully managed Microsoft Windows digital workplace offered to UM employees by ICTS. Devices are encrypted by default to secure locally stored data in the event of theft or loss. However, locally stored data is not backed-up and could be lost in such scenarios or in the case of a hardware failure. Therefore, always save your data on a UM storage solution.

VDI is a workplace you can use anytime, anywhere and on any device, offered by ICTS. All you need is an Internet connection and a web browser. The AthenaDesktop-VDI workplace is a fully managed virtual workspace which contains all standard UM software (e.g. Windows, Office, Internet browser), as well as faculty/department-specific applications.

ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench available to UM students and employees for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.

The DSRI is Maastricht University’s local computing cluster. You can set up virtual environments and install applications such as R-Studio, Jupyer Notebooks, Matlab, VS code, and more. It is accessible via web browsers, and you can make use of CPUs and GPUs for computing tasks.

DataverseNL, supported by the University Library, is a digital repository available to UM researchers, where one can publish or register research data during the research process and after its completion to make it discoverable, citable and accessible to future research (i.e. FAIR).

OneNote is a digital note-taking application developed by Microsoft. It allows you to create, organize and share notes, screenshots and other multimedia content.

GraphDB is a graph database compliant with RDF and SPARQL specifications. It supports open APIs based on the RDF4J project and enables fast publishing of linked data on the web. The Workbench is used for searching, exploring and managing GraphDB repositories.

IBM SPSS Statistics is a statistical software, available to UM students and employees, designed to solve business and research problems by means of ad hoc analysis, hypothesis testing, geospatial analysis and predictive analytics.

Ldot is a web-based tool, designed to monitor the study logistics and guard the progress of your research project. It supports the study workflow by indicating which actions should be performed for which study subject at what time.

Maastricht Data Repository is a data management platform designed to provide researchers with a convenient and secure place to store and manage their data. Enrich your data sets with metadata and automatically get a persistent identifier for all data sets.