The academic world is enchanted by open data and FAIR data sharing. What is so magical about it? Does it only provide benefits or are there also concerns? Within Wageningen University & Research (WUR) much thought is being given to what data sharing means. A proposal has emerged from this….
Researchers are increasingly required to manage their research data safely and sustainably and are confronted with an overload of information on data handling. Funder requirements, global academic discussions on FAIR data, the new WUR data policy, Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and developments in Open Science. How to see…
Have you ever watched the short story on the panda bear that would like to use data from her colleague? If not, check out the 4-minute ‘data management horror story’ made by the NYU Health Sciences Library here. A personal experience comparable to the panda story triggered PhD candidates Katharina…
The data champions interviewed so far all show different practices – and different strengths – when it comes to the four aspects of WUR’s new data policy: planning, storing, archiving, and registering. The data champion of this blog post, Jos van den Puttelaar from Wageningen Economic Research, is doing especially…
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…
After having published his data, PhD candidate Corjan Nolet was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was re-used by a research group at the University of Twente. This case shows that data archiving, part of good data management practice, really has scientific benefits. And this is one of the…
For this blog post we interviewed Prof. Roel Veerkamp, of Breeding and Genomics of Wageningen University & Research. The department analyses the genomes and phenotypes of animals to improve animal breeding and our understanding of genetic variation. Genomes are the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a…
“To involve researchers you need to talk about the daily research issues that we can tackle with the new data management rules”, says Paulien Adamse. Paulien is a researcher at the Business Unit Toxicology, Novel Foods & Agro, part of RIKILT. As a true Data Champion of Wageningen Research, Paulien…
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…
Data play a key role in research. All scientific research is based on some sort of data, be it surveys, laboratory experiments or interview analyses; and we all agree that it is important to look after our data well. This means not only the safe storage of data during research,…