All researchers and research support staff who are interested in research data management (RDM) and want to find out more about it are welcome to join the RDM Community of VU Amsterdam. The objective of the network is to exchange knowledge and inspire each other.
You can take part in the following activities:
- monthly Data Conversations meetings
- monthly RDM community calls for the RDM Support Staff
To get on the mailing list, send an email to rdm@vu.nl.
With questions about RDM you can either contact your faculty’s data steward or the RDM Support Desk.
Stay up to date about our activities
- Sign up for our VU Research Data Support Newsletter.
- Follow and interact with us on LinkedIn!
- You can find information about the upcoming Data Conversations in the University Library Calendar.
Monthly Data Conversations
The VU Data Conversations are intended for VU Amsterdam researchers, students, support and management staff, data stewards and data specialists. The goal of these meetings is to create a space for knowledge sharing between different faculties and disciplines. The topics we discuss include research transparency, reproducibility, open methods and open data. The meetings start with a brief presentation, after which the floor is thrown open for discussion.
Thinking of giving a Data Conversation presentation yourself?
We are planning for the new Data Conversation meeting. If you would like to give a brief presentation on data management, open data, open methods or reproducible research, please reach out to rdm@vu.nl. We are keen to receive input from our community.
Vibrant research communities in Amsterdam
If you are interested in open science, research reproducibility, programming skills and methodology of working with data, you might want to check out some of the groups and meeting series listed below.
Open Science Community Amsterdam
ReproducibiliTea VU Amsterdam
Student Initiative for Open Science
Pizza4Python
Medical Data plus Pizza Meetups
All of these grassroots initiatives have links with the VU, however, they are absolutely independent of the RDM community. If you have any questions about these initiatives, use the contact information provided on their corresponding websites.
Training Days
Expertise in RDM and OS are distributed across several parts of the VU. To keep colleagues up to date on each other's expertise, every summer and winter the Training Days are organised.
Community manager RDM & Open Science
Tycho Hofstra is VU Amsterdam's RDM and Open Science community manager. He visits RDM expertise meetings and conferences at home and abroad and takes care of the proper dissemination of the latest knowledge throughout VU Amsterdam.
