Webinar, discussion
Connect & Exchange: A national training and community platform for research data professionals
- Michelle van den Berk
- Datum
- dinsdag 18 november 2025
- Tijd
- Toelichting
- De voertaal van de sessie is Engels.
- Locatie
- Online
For our November Connect & session, we are pleased to have former Leiden University Libraries Centre for Digital Scholarship - and current DANS data management expert - Michelle van den Berk talking to and with us about her new project on a training and community platform for data stewards.
Abstract
Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) launched a new website on 30th September with a vision to expand it into a platform that will strengthen the connection between training and the professional communities already active in the Netherlands. We would like to reach out to data professionals and involve them so that we can ensure that training resources match real needs, remain easy to find, and stay relevant for a profession in a continuously changing and updating field. At the same time, we do not want to copy, or even worse, replace, already existing community driven initiatives: rather reach out to them, and offer them a place on the platform.
In this Connect & session, I would like to have a conversation with the Leiden Research Data Community and talk about what you think:
- Our training portfolio should include
- You really need but cannot find anywhere
- You can contribute to the platform
- Our best way to reach out to you should be
- We need to do to transfer this platform into a true national training and community platform for research data professionals by the end of 2028.
This session
This Connect & session takes place online and will last one hour. After an introduction there will be time for questions and informal discussion. Everyone interested in thet topic is very welcome to join. If you are part of the Leiden University Research Data Management Community you will have received a calendar invite. If you are not on the contact list, you can register by filling out the form.
About the Connect & sessions
This event is part of the “Connect and …” series arranged by, and for, the Leiden University Research Data Management Community, on everything data management-related. The sessions take place every month at different days and times, so as to maximize access according to people’s different working hours, and are normally online. Topics and speakers are proposed by members of the Community. You can post a suggestion in the Community's MSTeams space, or write to datamanagement@library.leidenuniv.nl, if you have a topic you would like to discuss in a future meeting and the CDS team will help to make it happen.