“Data are the lifeblood of research and good research data management (RDM) leads to reliable results, increased visibility, and greater impact. In light of supporting researchers to implement high quality RDM practices, the symbolic doors to our RDM support at KU Leuven will be pushed wide open from the 25th to 29th of November to celebrate best practices, tools and collaboration during The RDM Open House. The Research Data Management Competence Centre of KU Leuven invites everyone to join for training sessions, workshops, and open discussions. Whether you’re an early career researcher, a seasoned academic, research support staff or a policymaker, our doors are wide open. No prior expertise needed – just curiosity and a desire to enhance your skills in the field of Research Data Management.

Programme

• Each day focuses on specific RDM topics, from sessions on the basic principles to a metadata tools fair, workshops on data protection or lectures on data sharing. You can pick and choose the days you would like to attend. There is no requirement to participate the full week.  For more information about the programme, visit the website. 
• Knowledge Hub Community Day (28/11): Co-organized with the FRDN and hosted by KU Leuven, this event unites data stewards, RDM support staff, and professionals interested in open and FAIR data.

Practicalities

• When: 25th to 29th of November 2024. You can pick and choose the days you would like to attend. There is no requirement to participate the full week.
• Where: Sessions take place in Leuven’s city center.  Some sessions will be organized both in-person and online for broader accessibility.
• Who: the RDM Open House opens its doors to everyone: from early career researchers and senior academic staff to research support personnel, students and policy makers, whether affiliated with KU Leuven or external institutions.
• Learn more about the event on the website. 
• Registration: Click here  and reserve your spot before November 11th to join us to celebrate open research data and it’s best practices!

This event is only open to KU Leuven researchers and staff.

• When? 24 October 2022, 1 pm – 4 pm
• Where? Promotiezaal (Universiteitshal, Naamsestraat 22) and online via MS Teams (link will be shared prior to the event)
• For whom? Training targeted at PhD researchers, but other researchers and support staff are welcome
• No fees, but registration is mandatory

This training is an opportunity to learn from other researchers at KU Leuven how they implement Open Science principles. The focus will be on preregistration and registered reports, tools for sharing research data, code, and software, and how Open Science can be implemented in a lab environment. Details about the program and about how to register can be found here.

Reach out to the Open Science Helpdesk with any questions you might have!

Starting this week, we’ll be posting regular summaries of new digital scholarschip resources that were 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 inaugural edition, we have some great project management tips that are really about research data management (RDM), ways of using RSS feeds to keep track of updates on a website, how to export comments from Word files to turn them into structured data, ruminations on the influence of the coronavirus pandemic on scholarship, and more.