At the SURF Research Day Katrien will be talking about her scientific research during 'Operation Night Watch', but with a clear focus on collaboration.
In her role, she needs to make sure that scientists and people from humanities and art are able to talk to each other and work together. People in science and art conservation work in completely different domains, so this requires the best processes and communication skills.

Research data reuse is a crucial aspect of sustainable research practices, yet cultural and structural barriers persist. Research support professionals are uniquely positioned to facilitate and foster data reuse. In this open discussion, we will explore our roles in embedding research data reuse in academic culture, identifying challenges and strategies to support researchers in making better use of existing data.

How can we make sure can we have an infrastructure ecosystem for science that is resilient to attacks on open data based on divergent political inclinations?
Recent political changes in the international landscape have affected science in various ways, especially stirring concerns in some fields such as climate and earth sciences and social sciences. Careers are in danger, but so is research data collected and generated painstakingly over many years. The developments have been so fast and furious that many have been caught by surprise.

This workshop is designed to provide participants with a hands-on introduction to configuring Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for The Things Network (TTN), collecting sensor data, and visualizing the results. The goal is to empower participants with the skills and knowledge needed to deploy IoT solutions using LoRaWAN technology effectively.

In this workshop – part demo, part group discussion – we will collectively explore the affordances of machine actionable Data Management Plan (maDMP) tooling to support integrated workflows within Dutch RPOs (combing RDM/privacy/ethics), and learn more about ongoing efforts within the Horizon-funded OSTrails project to develop infrastructure that streamlines the assessment of DMPs and enhances the FAIRness and connectivity of research outputs more broadly.

Are you a researcher who wants to share an overview of your open science contributions, including papers, blogs, interviews, podcasts, teaching activities? Have you noticed that existing solutions only cover a subset? Have you no time to manually add the rest? If so, come test a prototype that lets you toot (Mastodon) the URL of your contribution to automatically add it to a trusted profile page.

A laptop is not required, a device is useful in order to participate

Connecting researchers and supporters can be difficult: are the researchers’ needs being met? Are the services offered by support staff fulfilling those needs and are they visible to researchers? Is the language used by groups different and leading to missed opportunities for greater collaboration? Join our interactive session to help find answers and build towards better supported research.

Large-scale research infrastructures (LSRIs) form a vital backbone of scientific research and increasingly rely on robust digital infrastructure for their operation and exploitation by the research community over multiple years. However, building and maintaining LSRIs poses a multi-disciplinary challenge: You understand how you want to advance research in a specific domain, and you have found your partners. But how to find the expertise to build and maintain the technical infrastructure? How to govern and sustain it? What are the available infrastructure and tools that can be reused?

How can we facilitate researchers when they need connectivity for their research? For laptops and smartphones, eduroam is available. But what about other devices or sensors?

The UKB-programme Strengthening Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands (2024 - 2026) helps advance not-for-profit journals and publishers. The demo presents the online Expertisecentre which launched last january, along with our other activities, accomplishments and plans.

New at the SURF Research Day!

The Data Hunters card game helps participants develop collaborative problem-solving and data management skills. For 8-40 players, divided into groups of 4-5, each participant assumes a role (Researcher, Data Steward, Ethics Expert, Legal & Privacy Advisor). The game focuses on working together to address challenges and mitigate risks related to data management.

Researchers often want to find, request and analyse data from different data spaces. What can the (Dutch) researcher do with the European data spaces? How do you approach European data spaces, available datasets, under what conditions, etc. And how can we make these data spaces interoperable to service these multi data spaces uses cases?

Worried about scientific reproducibility? Join us to see how researchers, data repositories, and research service providers are working together on practical solutions. You will learn about new tools, like RO-Crate, see a demo of a workflow from publication to virtual research environment, and find out how you can help strengthen open science in the Netherlands.

The presentation is followed by a panel discussion organized by the Netherlands eScience Center and DANS-KNAW.

The GPT-NL initiative is a collaboration between TNO, SURF, and NFI. It aims to create a Dutch Large Language Model (LLM) and its community through the development of a state-of-the-art research facility and the pursuit of a sovereign and lawful language model. An ambitious vision with a lot at stake! In this session, we address our key challenges: securing licensed data, creating an energy-aware training, mitigating bias, and protecting private information.

The session is designed to be dynamic and interactive, combining presentations with open Q&A periods to foster an open discussion.

This workshop is for data stewards and anyone who wishes to improve a community’s knowledge of the FAIR principles as applied to data and other digital object types.
FAIR-Aware is an open-source online tool aimed at assessing and aiding researchers and others in their understanding of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) guiding principles.

Do you need to publish your research software and want to ensure it follows the latest best practices to make it FAIR? Or do you need help guiding researchers through this process? Join us for a hands-on tutorial session to learn how the open-source Code Auditor tool can help you to identify potential issues and offer guidance on how to resolve them.

Bring a loptop if you want to participate hands-on in the activities, but without a laptop you can follow the session as well.

Curious about what SURF does? Join us as we showcase our compute and data services. We offer solutions for processing, storing, managing, sharing, and publishing data, along with high-performance and cloud computing. We'll discuss our portfolio, future vision, current challenges, and upcoming roadmap.

Persistent identifiers (PID) are essential to make data objects FAIR, such as publications, data sets, organisations and people. But PIDs are not persistent and globally unique by magic. In this workshop, we will present and discuss the collection of services, resolution mechanisms, and other management issues that result in a branded or unique PID service. This is called a "PID stack". We will use the "PID Knowledge Base" that provides information on a wide variety of facets of PIDs.

BA and MA students need better support and facilities to process sensitive data safely and effectively. This session discusses the cycle of data handling students are stuck in to and how data professionals can assist in this issue. We'll explore the steps needed to ensure the next generation of students can processes sensitive data according to judicial, ethical, and open science standards.

Academic communities play an important role in the promotion of Open Science (OS). While many thriving OS communities exist, guidance on how to start an OS community is still sparse. Drawing on our experience of building the Community of Practice for Open Naturally Occurring Data, we will present the steps undertaken in establishing this community and share key lessons we learned in the process.

Are you a researcher with an algorithm and eager to see if your peers can improve on it? Or do you have a dataset that needs annotation, but your collaborators are spread across the globe?
At grand-challenge.org, you can do both — and much more.

Join this session to discover how we leverage the cloud to power secure, scalable tools for hosting challenges, reader studies, and algorithms — connecting researchers worldwide.

In this interactive session you will get into the nitty gritty of the Modular Open Research Information System. You will discuss the importance of digital sovereignty and the struggles you encounter in making this happen. You will also have the opportunity to talk about issues you face with Open Research Information, topic you see as fundamental to tackle, and how you can contribute to MORIS

The MesoNET initiative is redefining the landscape of high-performance computing (HPC) in France by establishing a distributed national mesocentre infrastructure that bridges regional and national computational resources. Coordinated within the Equip@meso framework and supported by GENCI, MesoNET unites over twenty academic and research institutions to enhance technological capabilities, stimulate regional innovation, and foster collaboration across the HPC ecosystem.

The three winners of the SURF Research Support Champion awards give a short presentation of the impact and innovity of their work.

Do you sometimes wonder how you can support researchers without being seen as an open science fanatic that just causes them to do more work? In this interactive session, we present results of a project that looked at 4y-trends in adherence to 14 criteria for good research. With your help, we explore how these results may foster productive dialogs with researchers and research administrators about how we can move towards more responsible, efficient and open science work styles.

The Research Cockpit is a new central interface for researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology that helps them navigate Research Data Management support and integrated Research Data IT Infrastructure. The first version of the Research Cockpit went live in September 2024. In this session, we share the thinking behind the system and our initial learnings from both researcher and support staff

Modern research often requires cloud or supercomputing infrastructure, but setting up your software environment on such systems can be challenging and time consuming. What if you could have the same software environment everywhere?
The European Environment for Scientific Software installations (EESSI) provides a large, uniform stack of scientific software, ready to use on virtually any system in the world: from personal laptop, to a cloud VM, to the largest supercomputers in Europe.
In this talk, you will learn how EESSI works, what possibilities it creates, and you will see it live in action.

In futurist research, we envision new robotic possibilities and think through the consequences of these (im)possible innovations for people and their impact on society. In imagining this future and developing Social AI and Social robotics solutions, we have been imagining what future robotic services may look like, and study the social and societal consequences.