UDCC Forum II review On 10 December 2024, the UDCC (Utrecht Digital Competence Center) gathered together for its second Forum. With both returning and new participants, this meeting served as an opportunity to build upon the momentum of the UDCC’s initial outreach activities toward democratic and inclusive community building. Having been in official operation for only two months, the […] Read more
IEG Conference (hybrid): Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era The Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) is organising an international conference on ‘Data ethics for historical research in a digital era: Critical reflections and best practices’ in Mainz (Germany) …
Survey on reference tools by Utrecht University Library Do you use a reference manager, such as Zotero or Endnote? The University Library would like to help you better use and manage references. That is why we would like to know which tools you use. Please complete the short survey, so we can learn how to better help you use these tools effectively. Go […] Read more
First UDCC Forum review On 12 November 2024, the UDCC (Utrecht Digital Competence Center) convened for its inaugural Forum event. The UDCC Forum brings together people from across Utrecht University (UU) working to support university processes in digital research, including, but not limited to, areas such as research data management, software, and infrastructure. By getting together once a month, […] Read more
Interview: OpenAlex, a big step towards Open Science? Utrecht University has published an interview with Open Science specialist drs. Jeroen Bosman (Utrecht University Library) about OpenAlex, the new database for scientific output offering more than 250 million works. Its focus on full openness and availability is why OpenAlex fits in well with the principle of Open Science: the striving for an academic world […] Read more
ERC Starting Grant awarded for UU research into data diversity in Natural Language Processing In September, Dong Nguyen received an ERC Starting Grant of €1.5 million for her research on the impact of data diversity on the quality of language models. In her DataDivers project, she aims to develop methods to accurately measure the diversity of a dataset and investigate how this diversity influences the behavior of a language model. The […] Read more
Book publication: Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society In Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention, Mirko Schäfer and Karin van Es (both Data School, Centre for Digital Humanities, Utrecht University), together with Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University), provide concrete tools for conducting collaborative academic research. The volume is available in open access. Societal engagement of universities “Today’s universities seek to appear, or actually be, […] Read more
Humanities researchers: SSHOC-NL Task 3.1 survey The Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud for the Netherlands project (SSHOC-NL) invites humanities researchers to fill out a survey (5 mins) on which types of data enrichment tools are being used. Within the SSHOC-NL project, such information will enable them to provide tailored support and information to users as part of Task 3.1 on methodologically sound data […] Read more
Data Team Start A tool that (novice) data project teams can use to conduct an inspection to obtain an accurate survey of their collaboration. […] Read more
Sharing Data Together The ‘Sharing data together’ checklist offers guidance to organisations wishing to share data responsibly. […] Read more
Meaningful digital (and hybrid) collaboration This tool helps teams to shape their digital cooperation in a meaningful way during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. […] Read more
The Digital Advisor (Concept) Tool to help people’s representatives within a municipality to make a value judgement on a data-related proposal and to learn to ask critical questions about such proposals. […] Read more
