About
We support from three core pillars: research data management, research tooling, and research infrastructure. Our training, advice and expertise guides researchers through all four phases of the Research Data Lifecycle.
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dr. Bart Oosterholt
RTC coordinator
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Expertises and services
Let us enhance your research
A quick overview of our training offerings, policy & guidance documents, data management support, supported tools, and available infrastructure, to support your research data.
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We support researchers by providing training, advice and expertise from our three core pillars: I. research data management, II. research tooling, and III. research infrastructure. Doing so, we guide researchers through all four phases of the Research Data Lifecycle.
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The Research Data Lifecycle (RDL) is our guiding principle for all your research data, leading a researcher through the four phases for research data: planning & design, collect & create, store & analyze, and archive & share.
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- FAIR Research Data Management (RDM)
Two half days introduction to RDM, covering terminology, tools and solutions. - Data Management Plan (DMP)
This 1-hour online course teaches you how to make a DMP using the DMP online tool. - Digital Research Environment (DRE)
A 1.5 hour course including hands-on session to get researchers started with the DRE. - R basics for data preparation and presentation
A 5-day course to learn the basics in R data preparation and presentation.
- FAIR Research Data Management (RDM)
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We review your Data Management Plan (DMP). Do you need to prepare a DMP but are you not sure how to start? Contact us by e-mail for advice. See our example texts for data management paragraphs for PhD theses and EU proposals.
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Below are tools supported by our RTC. More information is available on the intranet page of each tool.
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- Digital Research Environment (DRE)
A cloud based, globally available and 24/7 accessible research environment for research data storage, analysis and collaboration across departments and institutes (this Microsoft Azure environment is owned, developed and promoted by anDREa, a consortium between Radboudumc, Erasmus MC and UMC Utrecht). - ResearchLiNC (intranet)
A platform for all Radboudumc researchers for research administration and document management - Health-RI (external website)
A Dutch initiative to build an integrated health data infrastructure for research and innovation.
- Digital Research Environment (DRE)
Research Data Lifecycle and its four phases
Your research data typically undergoes four phases: planning & design, collect & create, store & analyze, and archive & share. These are all equally important to maximize scientific impact.
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Training, Data Management Plan (DMP) review and support for management of your data.
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I. Research data management
Training, Data Management Plan (DMP) review and support for management of your research data.
We provide support for individual researchers, departments and consortia in all four phases of the Research Data Lifecycle.
FAIR Research Data Management
- Explore the four phases of the Research Data Lifecycle.
- Follow our FAIR RDM course to get a head start in the FAIR RDM terminology, tools and regulation.
- Contact our data stewards (see the general contact button on the RTC DS main webpage) for support and advice on tailored RDM solutions that are compliant with the Radboudumc policy.
Data management plans (DMP)
- DMPs are mandatory for PhDs, required by most funders and necessary to acquire local feasibility approval.
- To get started, follow the DMP training.
- Make sure to select the Radboudumc template in DMPonline (intranet) for NWO and ZonMW funded studies and for local feasibility applications.
- Make use of the example texts for data management paragraph in PhD theses or EU funded studies.
- Ask for advice or have your DMP reviewed by our data stewards (you can contact them via the general contact button on the RTC DS main webpage).
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The four phases of the Research Data Lifecycle require different tools and solutions, such as DRE, Castor and Labguru.
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Impact and other efforts
Our impact
We collaborate with internal and external partners to share knowledge and develop new solutions and platforms for research data management.
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We collaborate with internal and external partners to share knowledge and develop new solutions and platforms for research data management.
Many researchers recognize the importance of research data management and the FAIR principles, however, applying them is often difficult and time-consuming. We aim to address this by:
- Providing clear guidelines and instructions;
- Developing secure & intuitive tools and infrastructure;
- Sharing knowledge and connecting experts.
Policy and guidelines
Throughout the Research Data Lifecycle, policy and guidelines apply. These are available on Radboudumc's Qportal and IQS. Consult these before start.
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Throughout the Research Data Lifecycle, policy and guidelines apply. These documents are available on Qportal and IQS. Read them before you start your project.
Policies and guidelines on Qportal
- General Radboud policy
- Integral Quality System (IQS)
- SOP Research Data Management (RDM)
- SOP Management and archiving of scientific human-related research ('Beheer en archivering wetenschappelijk mensgebonden onderzoek')
Example text for Data Management Plan (DMP)
Use the DMPonline tool to prepare your DMP and make use of the guidelines and example answers for each topic. Make sure to use the Radboudumc template, also when preparing a DMP for funders such as ZonMW and NWO.
FAIR manual on Qportal
Making your data FAIR is a challenging task. For researchers it is difficult to decide where to start and what choices to make in the process. To help researchers, Health-RI have written a FAIR manual that guides you step-by-step to apply the FAIR principles to research data. Click here to access it.
Health-RI
We actively participate in Health-RI, the Dutch organization which stands for better re-use of health data for research, policy and innovation.
visit websiteOpen Science
Open Science is about free access to scientific knowledge, data and methods throughout a research project, increasing cooperation, transparency and reproducibility of research.
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The FAIR principles help to make your data have impact beyond your research project and publications, and increase the visibility of your scientific achievements.
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The FAIR principles help to make your data have impact beyond your research project and publications, and increase the visibility of your scientific achievements.
Making data FAIR
FAIR is an acronym for ‘Findable’, ‘Accessible’, ‘Interoperable’ and ‘Reusable’.
- Findable: The first step in (re)using data is to find them. Metadata and data should be easy to find for both humans and computers. Machine-readable metadata are essential for automatic discovery of datasets and services, so this is an essential component of the FAIRification process.
- Accessible: Once the user finds the required data, they need to know how can the data be accessed, possibly including authentication and authorization.
- Interoperable: The data usually need to be integrated with other data. In addition, the data need to interoperate with applications or workflows for analysis, storage, and processing.
- Reusable: The ultimate goal of FAIR is to optimize the reuse of data. To achieve this, metadata and data should be well-described so that they can be replicated and/or combined in different settings.
More information by Radboud University
The Radboud University has established the following minimum requirements concerning data "FAIRness": 'Research data underlying scientific publications authored by Radboud University or Radboudumc employees should be Findable and Accessible.'
The FAIR guidelines are known to many researchers but are not yet universally applied in practice. We at Radboudumc are obliged to have all research data comply at least with the F (sustainably findable) and the A (proper access management). Read more on the website of the Radboud University.
Digital services of other RTCs
An overview of available digital services from other Radboudumc Technology Centers.
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- AI algoritm development
- Fiji, QuPath, Cellpose - support for main open-source image processing/analysis software
- Grand challenge - platform for AI development
- Kaluza, Flowjo, flow cytomertry clustering analysis in R and in Omiq - functional management and support on software for multicolor flow cytometry analysis
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- Advice on AI and machine learning - for projects with data from general practices
- Automation of image processing and analysis solutions
- Anonymization of imaging data
- Cost-effective analyses
- Custom solutions for image processing and analysis
- Data preparation for AI
- DNA sequencing
- Metagenomics
- Methodological and statistical advice
- Protein structure analysis
- RNA sequencing
- Single cell analysis
- Statistical analysis
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- Complex (online) data collection
- Sharing imaging data
- Supply of healthcare data of +/- 100 general practices
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- Advice and assistance in setting up research website - for example: research portals, integration of Castor EDC with research websites
- Design and management of databases for research data
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- AI for health
- How to generate and analyze high-quality multi-color flow cytometry data - hands-on analysis in Kaluza (and/or Flowjo, Omiq) (in development)
- Introduction in using R
- Statistics for clinical researchers
Organization and people
Getting here
Visiting address
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6525 GJ Nijmegen
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Our experts
The Data Stewardship team consists of nine members, all experts in the field of research data management.