14 November 2024 @ 09:15 – 16:30 – On 14 November, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) invites the research support community, policy makers and researchers to their Open Day 2024: an insightful event dedicated to promoting the …

17 February 2025 – 19 February 2025 @ All Day – The 19th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) will take place between 17 -19 February 2025 in Madurodam, The Hague. This year’s main theme is ‘Twenty years back, twenty years …

22 October 2024 @ All Day – On 22 October 2024, the fourth edition of the Dutch National Open Science Festival will take place at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) faculty of Maastricht University. This …

“Digital research is the future, also in humanities” Professor Leonard Rutgers and his colleagues research how Jewish migrants spread over Europe in Roman times. Thanks to a grant of the FAIR Research IT programme, the team was able to digitise a large number of sources and incorporate them into an interactive map. Other scholars can now use…

During the Christmas holidays, I was introduced to the work of Rudolf Stingel (1956). I saw fascinating similarities in his work to Open Science, and especially to two of its themes: FAIR Data and Software, and Public Engagement. FAIR Data and Software In 1988, Stingel started working on “silver paintings”, large canvases with monochrome backgrounds,…