The Drivers for Building Creative Spaces in Libraries

This last September, The Centre for Digital Scholarship further developed its plans for a shared learning space that will be built in the CDS location. The facilitator of visioning meeting was Katy Webb from Yale University, who was visiting on a Fulbright grant for three weeks.

Guest author • December 02, 2022

Copyright and the European Commission Policy for Research

An overview of recent studies, policy, and legislation surrounding copyright and research.

Erna Sattler • November 17, 2022

How will we exchange digital research data in the future?

The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects in Leiden offer a vision of a more accessible future for research data.

Kristina Hettne • November 07, 2022

Open Access Week 2022: will you help to open the scholarly debate?

Open digital infrastructures can facilitate the academic discourse, change the academic publication process, make scholarly communication into a dialogue for all.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer, Michelle van den Berk and Kristina Hettne • October 24, 2022

Leiden University Data Stewards Day 2022

Who are Leiden University Data Stewards? On 30 June 2022, we held our first Data Stewardship Day: bringing together first-line and second-line research data management support staff to get to know each other and learn more about RDM-related developments taking place at Leiden University and beyond.

Joanne Yeomans • September 07, 2022

After the Collaborative Transcription: addressing the challenges of crowdsourced transcription

Leiden University Libraries support transcription of digitised materials in various ways, including methods that enable crowdsourcing. A recent international symposium and the exchange of experiences, produced insights that will help to improve how Leiden can respond to these challenges.

Ben Companjen • June 30, 2022

Using Twitter data to study the responses to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo

During the past few years, data extracted from the social media platform Twitter have increasingly been on the radar of researchers interested in contemporary developments or in responses to recent events.

Peter Verhaar • May 23, 2022

Celebrating a decade of RDM professionals in The Netherlands

The LCRDM Network Day marked a decade of Research Data Management support across The Netherlands and celebrated the people necessary for RDM to happen. Staff from across the country joined to reflect on the value they have added to research and the challenges that the next decade will bring.

Joanne Yeomans • April 12, 2022

Hackathons – not only for techies

The Leiden University Data Management Network enjoyed a safari tour around the data hackathons that have recently either taken place at Leiden, or involved people from Leiden. After clarifying what hackathons really are, and how everyone benefits, we brainstormed some ideas for future hackathons.

Joanne Yeomans and Kristina Hettne • March 22, 2022