Maurice Vanderfeesten
Maurice Vanderfeesten works at the intersection of research information infrastructure, open science and innovation. As Innovation Manager Research Services at the University Library of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he develops services for Open Science, scholarly communication and research intelligence.
He also acts as a strategic advisor on Open Research Information at SURF, working on initiatives that strengthen open research information infrastructures and help connect information about Dutch publicly funded research in the public domain.
Maurice studied Information Sciences at Utrecht University and has worked across the Dutch research infrastructure landscape at SURF, TU Delft and VU Amsterdam, contributing to open access repositories, research data management and metadata standards used in infrastructures such as OpenAIRE.
His current work explores how AI can help make research more readable and accessible, supporting his broader mission to build a shared knowledge commons where scientific knowledge is accessible to everyone, now and for generations to come.
Session
Do you rely on ORCID, DOI or ROR to connect research information across systems, but still encounter missing affiliations and incomplete metadata?
In this session you will discover results from the Dutch Open Research Information Monitor, a national initiative that analyses how persistent identifiers are actually used across the research information ecosystem.
The monitor compares metadata across CRIS systems, OpenAlex, OpenAIRE and Crossref to identify gaps in PID coverage, metadata completeness and open licensing.
Using real use cases from universities and research funders, the monitor reveals where PIDs work well, where connections break, and what interventions could improve the ecosystem.
You will gain practical insights into:
- how PID adoption can be monitored across infrastructures
- where gaps appear in ORCID, ROR usage
- which interventions can strengthen connected research information