FAIR Data and FAIR Software

The project creates a stronger bridge between the current policy, infrastructure and culture of data stewardship, sustainable software and scientific practice, for instance by exploring new roles like data manager or research software engineer, in order to fulfil the researchers’ actual needs in managing their research data and software. A coherent approach to FAIR data and software helps make research more transparent and efficient. 

2023 Main Goal FAIR Data and FAIR Software

The main goal for this year is improving FAIR Data and FAIR Software practices at TU Delft by:

  • developing training materials
  • developing discipline-specific guidelines
  • piloting a tool for active data management

Digital Competence Center (DCC)

We offer support with:

FAIR Data
Setting up workflows, working with data management tools, finding solutions for data collection, storage, retrieval, back-ups, as well as using open digital platforms for showcasing results.

Software Testing and Automation
Developing workflows to automate reading, processing and analysing data, and best practices for software testing & implementation of automatic testing

Documentation
Best practices for code documentation, infrastructure for collaborative and automatic documentation and metadata generation up to your disciplines standards.

FAIR Software
Developing new and adjusting existing software to FAIR principles and best practices in quality control, extensibility and maintainability. Reviewing source code and repository and handling software for reproducible research.

Collaborative Environments and Version Control
Setting up collaborative software development projects with version control.

Opportunities

Support with software development and/or data management components

Need hands-on support for projects with software development and/or data management components (data management, research software, and/or execution of computational tasks)? This year there will be a new call for help through DCC for your long-term project. Keep an eye on the news section of this website.

Community of research software developers and data managers 

Join the community of researchers who focus on research software development or data management within their teams to learn from each other, develop solutions and collaborate.

Manage your data

Looking for a way to organize your lab notes/results and collect them in one place? Manage your data through R-Space or E-Lab Journal licenses that we offer!

Project Leads

FAIR Data
Yan Wang


FAIR Software
Meta Keijzer- de Ruijter


Digital Competence Centre
Julie Beardsell


Training
Paula Martinez Lavanchy


Disciplinary Practices
Yan Wang