These events are only open to KU Leuven researchers and staff

In light of ongoing developments and concerns regarding research data storage at KU Leuven, the RDM competence centre is organising an online Q&A session. Not sure where to put the data for your current or new research project? Are you still using OneDrive instead of a more suitable storage solution – and why should you make the switch? Struggling to figure out what solution fits best with your particular type of data? Join us on May 9th at 13h and hear from ICTS and the RDM support staff about what options you have to securely store your research data in line with university guidelines. You can register below!

Program

The session will consist of two parts: a general presentation about the different storage solutions available (around 15 mins) followed by an open discussion/interactive Q&A during which you’ll be able to ask your questions to the RDM staff.

Practicalities

• When: May 9, 2025 from 13h00
• Where: Online (Microsoft Teams)
• For who: This Q&A session is for any KU Leuven researcher who has questions or concerns about research data storage
• Price and registration: Free but mandatory. Click here to register.
• More info: rdm@kuleuven.be.

Welcome to another summary of new digital scholarschip resources added to the Artes Digital Scholarship Community on Zotero (learn more about this group and join with your Zotero account to get the group’s resources right in Zotero on your desktop).

In this edition: reference management tips and tricks, essential reading for those starting out with research on social media or other user-generated content online, a guide to organising and supporting citizen science projects, musings about the role of software in research, a warning shot for researchers who keep data on Google services (sorry), and for inspiration, a very lovely and fascinating visualization of character relationships in The Witcher:

• Want to start using a reference manager like Zotero, but worried about laboriously transferring every single reference in the long list of sources that you’ve been keeping in Word or elsewhere? AnyStyle converts a list of references into a structured format that can be imported by reference managers and other programs: Keil, S. (n.d.). AnyStyle.io. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://anystyle.io/
• We always recommend using a reference manager like Zotero to automatically generate bibliographies for your articles and ensure that your references section is complete and correct. If you haven’t used a reference manager, however, you can still use Recite to automatically check whether your in-text citations match your list of references: 4cite Labs. (n.d.). Recite: APA and Harvard citations checked instantly. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://reciteworks.com/
• A humorous interlude on reproducibility: Ben Golub. (2021, December 24). Economics paper with secret data be like https://t.co/wmUk2N4lrZ [Tweet]. @ben_golub. https://twitter.com/ben_golub/status/1474213075268128772
• A great summary of what researchers should keep in mind when using data from social media in their projects: Centre for Data, Culture, and Society. (2021). Social media research: Ethical guidance for researchers at the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh. https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/files/2021-09/Social_Media_Ethics.pdf
• A basic and essential guide to the ethical considerations that come with researching online materials: franzke, aline shakti, Bechmann, A., Zimmer, M., Ess, C., the, & Association of Internet Researchers. (n.d.). Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0. Retrieved January 10, 2022, from https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf
• A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience: Group, L. C. S. W. (2021). Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public. LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. https://doi.org/10.25815/hf0m-2a57
• An engaging example of network analysis and data visualization applied to textual data from the popular “Witcher” novels: Janosov, M. (2021, December 23). A Network Map of The Witcher. Nightingale. https://nightingaledvs.com/a-network-map-of-the-witcher
• On the crucial role of software in research, which is difficult to recognize within the traditional academic publication model: Jay, C., Haines, R., & Katz, D. S. (2021). Software Must be Recognised as an Important Output of Scholarly Research. International Journal of Digital Curation, 16(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v16i1.745
• And finally, a scary reminder that external cloud services exert sometimes unexpected amounts of control over the data posted there, and that scholarly data on cloud services is in danger if it’s flagged as a “potential policy violation”: Khalili, J. (2021, December 15). Google Drive could soon start locking your files. TechRadar. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-drive-could-soon-start-locking-your-personal-files