Within Wageningen University & Research FAIR is the main underlying value of the data policy. FAIR is a suitable and pleasant acronym, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-Usable. I can easily argue that everyone wants to be fair. WUR Rector prof. Arthur Mol declared in an opening speech…
How is it ensured that large datasets are properly stored? How do we come to uniformity? Who monitors our data? Data is called the new gold. We want to take good care of something valuable. Bart Nijsse is the guardian of the data of the Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic…
The reduction of food loss and waste is high on the national agenda. The ministry of LNV finances the Wageningen Food and Biobased Research (WFBR) project on monitoring food waste (BO project). Martijntje Vollebregt is the project leader of this project in which data from the different stakeholders in the…
ISRIC, the international centre for world soil information, is a pioneer when it comes to Data Management. ISRIC has worked on compiling and harmonising data on soils for over 50 years. It makes the data available in a FAIR manner and supports open data where possible. ISRIC is therefore a…
Last Summer Wageningen University & Research decided on new Research Data Management (RDM) regulations. In a series of blogs we will describe some best practices RDM from within WUR: Our WUR data champions. In the blog posts we will indicate how the use case does or doesn’t meet the new regulations. We…
Practically all scientific funding agencies have Data Management Plan (DPM) requirements. In a DMP, you explain what data you are going to collect and how you plan to store it during the research and (if possible) make it available afterwards. Writing a DMP can be time-consuming, depending on the complexity of the…
On May 29th, there will be a first national meeting for researchers on Open Science. The meeting will take place in the Aula of TU Delft and will be a great opportunity for researchers to respond to the objectives and ambitions in the National Plan Open Science. In this blog,…
On December 1st 2016 the National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) and the working group on research data from UKB (Dutch consortium of the thirteen university libraries and the National Library) organised a seminar about issues in the development of Research Data Management (RDM) policies. There were three sessions:…
Open access (OA) is free access to scientific information such as journal articles. The main argument for OA publishing is that the outcome of scientific studies should be available to the public, industries, third world countries etc. However, there is a more direct interest for the authors themselves. This blog…
In January 2016 the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (AWTI), published the report ‘Durven delen’. (The English version ‘Dare to share’ followed in April.) So far, in Wageningen University & Research, the report got little attention. The AWTI gives an overview of the positive effects of sharing publications and…