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Brochure 3TU.Datacentrum

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:50:00 +0100

The new brochure of 3TU.Datacentrum was released on February 1st, 2012. This brochure tells about all the services van 3TU.Datacentrum can offer.
One of our frequent users reports on his experiences with 3TU.Datacentrum.

Are you the winner of the Dutch Data Prize 2012?

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0100

Dutch Data Prize 2012

Are you or do you know of a researcher or research group that makes a unique contribution to science, through hard graft in the area of data archiving? Nominate him or her for the Dutch Data Prize! The prize
The Dutch Data Prize is a mark of appreciation for researchers who gather and document data, and make it accessible. 3TU.Datacentrum and DANS award a prize for the humanities and social sciences and a prize for the exact and technical sciences. The winners receive: a sculpture, €7,500 to make the dataset accessible/improve access to the data (for example, by organising a symposium or making the data accessible online) and an all-expenses paid dinner for the group of researchers involved in producing the relevant data set and making it accessible. Save the date
Nominations can be made until 1 July 2012. The jury will select a shortlist of three nominees for each prize in September, from which the winners will be chosen in October. In the period between publication of the nominations and presentation of the awards, attention will be devoted to the candidates and their achievements, amongst others on the websites of DANS and 3TU.Datacentrum and in the magazine e-data&research. What are the nomination criteria?
Candidates may be nominated on the basis of a special data set or their work in the area of data archiving in general. The link to the criteria that the archived data must meet is in the left margin. Questions?
Would you like to know more about the Dutch Data Prize? Please contact Heiko Tjalsma (DANS) for questions about the humanities and social sciences prize and Jeroen Rombouts Msc (3TU.Datacentrum) for questions about the exact and technical sciences prize.

Minisymposium "Beyond the scientific paper", 26 October 2011, TU/e

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:05:00 +0200

Enhanced publications are becoming ever more popular in many fields of science and technology. Enhanced publications are publications – usually textual – that have been enhanced with additional (supplementary) material. The supplementary material may consist, for example, of research data, illustrative images or video, metadata sets, or post-publication data such as comments or rankings. Adding underlying data and models to a paper makes it easier to verify and reproduce, and to re-use results of research while the option of changing post-publication data allows an enhanced publication to develop over the course of time. Program
* Jeroen Sondervan, publisher Humanities and Online Projects at Amsterdam University Press;
* Pieter van Gorp, TU/e, assistant professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, developer of Share, a platform for supporting executable papers;
* Paul de Bra, TU/e, professor at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, head of the Database and Hypermedia Research Group;
* Sjoerd Miesen, TU/e, repository manager at Information Expertise Centre / Library

Together the four speakers will present an overview of new and exciting ways of academic publishing. The presentations will be followed by a discussion.

After the minisymposium, a simple lunch will be served.

You can read the latest news and find out more about this minisymposium here.

Participation in this minisymposium is free, but if you want to attend please send an e-mail to Leon Osinski before 18 October 2011.

Workshop Enhanced Publication

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:34:00 +0200

Research is more than publications only. If all research data are connected with each other they offer more possibilities for research. The workshop 'Maken van Verrijkte Publicaties' on Ocktober 19th, 2011 offers you the opportunity to try to make an Enhanced publication by yourself. If possible, you can bring your own materials, like research data, videos, pictures, related reports and so on. This workshop is for researchers and research supporters.

TU/e wins 2nd prize at Elsevier's Executable Paper Grand Challenge

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:35:00 +0200

Elsevier conducted the Executable Paper Grand Challenge on June 2 in Singapore, a contest aimed at improving the way scientific information is communicated and used. Second place was awarded to Eindhoven's Pieter van Gorp and Steffen Mazanek for SHARE: a webportal for creating and sharing executable research papers. The SHARE platform is a free web portal to a catalog of virtual machines. By deploying a copy of the required operating system in SHARE as well as relevant software and data, authors can make a conventional paper fully reproducible and interactive. Besides reproducing the literate results of a research paper, readers can also explore the results of the paper by entering different input parameters than the ones reported in the original text. In short SHARE allows to repeat and manipulate a particular experiment.
The SHARE platform has the benefit of making research results reproducible. By doing so SHARE also truly enhances articles with all artifacts of the article, programs as well as data, which can be made immutable afterwards and published that way.
SHARE and its relationship with open access of research data is explained by Pieter van Gorp in this video.

Store-Share-and-Cite: Increase your citations by (re)use of research data

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0200

That reusing scientific research data can contribute to reproducing and creating new knowledge, and to increased visibility of the scientific output, was certainly the message that we took home on the 9th of June 2011. About 70 symposium delegates ranging from curious researchers of Dutch technical universities, to national and international data specialists gathered together at the TU Delft Library for the mini-symposium ‘Store-Share-and-Cite: Increase your citations by (re)use of research data’ . During the 3TU mini-symposium, mainly three questions were addressed by a variety of experts: How to manage data? How to (re)produce (new) knowledge? And how does the 3TU.Datacentrum manage data and facilitate the production of new knowledge?

New data management can lead to new forms of science.

There is consensus on the idea that data centres such as World Data Center or the 3TU.Datacentrum, are important to scientists because there is a need for insight in the data that form the basis for scientific analyses. Michael Diepenbroek (geologist and computer scientist, and coordinator of PANGAEA) presented the complexity and architectures behind data centers like PANGAEA®. He stated that good papers become even better when the data behind the analyses are accessible. Also publishers are more than willing to cooperate in new initiatives to make data more accessible. The publishers like Elsevier, represented by Philippe Terheggen, are developing new options for enhanced publications. Patrick Vandewalle shared his experience as a researcher on the subject of Reproducible research. He showed that the storage of data combined with the code makes the research more robust, to yourself and fellow researchers. Improved data sharing is in the interest of science. Jeroen Rombouts, managing director of the project 3TU.Datacentrum presented Scientific Data Services in the Netherlands. The goal of 3TU.Datacentrum is to facilitate long-term archive and permanent access to technical-scientific research data. This datacenter offers the knowledge, experience and the tools for archiving research data in a standardized, secure and well-documented manner.
Vivid discussion
The afternoon hosted four excellent speakers, a vivid discussion with versatile and yet enthusiastic audience about the present and future trends in research data. As Maria Heijne, director of the TU Delft Library stated: “Using data that are already there and looking at them from different angles will produce new knowledge.” We are looking forward to welcoming you at one of our future events. Check out here some photos and the video of the mini-symposium.

3TU.Datacentrum has been added to the DataCite repository list

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:23:00 +0200

Find 3TU.Datacentrum among other research data repositories, like British Oceanographic Data Centre, Environmental Information Data Centre, Polar Data Centre and many others. This repository list contains about 100 data centres and aims to capture the growing number of repositories for research data.

Self upload of data sets to 3TU.Datacentrum

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:06:00 +0200

From now on you can upload your research data to 3TU.Datacentrum yourself. This provides long-term storage for your data in our archive and enables you to share your data with colleagues/fellow researchers.

Why you should upload to the 3TU.Datacentrum

3TU.Datacentrum offers long-term storage and management of data sets and provides professional support. The data sets are supplied with all the information that is essential for sustainable data management.
We ensure that only authorised users can download data sets. The quality of our service provision meets international standards and guidelines for digital archiving. Storing your data sets in our archive has the following advantages:

The data are stored safely and sustainably and so remain permanently accessible.
The data sets are allocated descriptive metadata in accordance with international standards.
The data can be easily shared with others via a permanent link.
The data sets can be assigned a DOI, which is ideal for citation.
The formats in which the data are stored remain legible.
You determine whether and/or when to make your data available to others.

How to publicise your data set on 3TU.Datacentrum

You can upload data sets up to 1 GB via the upload form. Staff at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences can log in using their NetID. Other people can log in using an OpenID, such as a Google account.
Once you have logged in, a personal page will be created for you. You can see on this page how much use is made of your data sets. If your data set is larger than 1 GB or if you have several sets or sets in NetCDF, please contact library@tudelft.nl.

Conditions for publication

When you upload a data set, it is checked before inclusion. This is to ensure that no errors have been made. After three days your data set will appear in 3TU.Datacentrum.

About 3TU.Datacentrum

Since 2008, TU Delft Library has been collaborating with the libraries of Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Twente to set up the 3TU.Datacentrum, an archive for research data. The aim of the data centre is to provide the scientific community with a permanently accessible sustainable archive of technical-scientific research data for reuse. For this reason the 3TU.Datacentrum warmly welcomes your contributions of data sets containing technical-scientific data.

Store-Share-and-Cite: Increase your citations by (re)use of research data

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:21:00 +0200

Research data management and proper citation of research data are important subjects concerning researchers of all scientific disciplines. International and Dutch experts will present their views on this important but often neglected subject. A versatile discussion-panel consisting of experts from different fields will add an extra dimension to this mini-symposium. Attendance is free of charge. Please register. Programme:

13:15	Opening	Maria Heijne, TU Delft Library
13:40	Services for long-term storage, publication, and citations of research data	Michael Diepenbroek, University Bremen, Germany & PANGEA
14:00	User experience: Reproducibility of research	Patrick Vandewalle, Eindhoven, Netherlands
14:30	break
14:45	The publishers’ role in the “data world”	Philippe Terheggen, Elsevier & Dutch Publishers Association
15:15	Science Data Services in the Netherlands	Jeroen Rombouts, TU Delft Library & 3TU.Datacentrum
15:30	Group voting on selected topics & Forum discussion
16:30	Closing remaks & refreshments

'Science' special issue: Dealing with Data

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:00 +0100

In the 11 February 2011 issue, Science joins with colleagues from Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers to provide a broad look at the issues surrounding the increasingly huge influx of research data. This collection of articles highlights both the challenges posed by the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data. Science is making access to this entire collection FREE (simple registration is required for non-subscribers).