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Data Management
In short, data management can be defined as the creation, storage, maintenance, disclosure, archiving and sustainable preservation of research data.

FAIR data and software
Everyone working with research data will, at some point, come across the acronym of FAIR, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

FAQ Data Management
In this FAQ we try to answer a selection of the most important questions on research data management that we compiled over the last 5 years.

Research Software & Data Engineering
The CDS helps researchers to try out new methods and techniques, and to collaborate and learn, to create software and to maintain it.

Training on research data management
The Centre for Digital Scholarship offers training on research data management (RDM). Topics include Data Management Plans, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data, and publishing and archiving data.

Leiden University Research Data Management Community
All University staff involved or interested in research data management are invited to join Leiden University Research Data Management Community.

Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) Event - 9 December 2025
Workshop

& Exchange: A national training and community platform for research data professionals Event - 18 November 2025
Webinar, discussion

Pieter Kroonenberg Professor by Special appointment emeritus Multivariate Analyse, in het bijzonder Driewegdata
Social & Behavioural Sciences

Jelle Goeman Professor Analysis of high-dimensional medical data
Faculteit Geneeskunde

Wessel Kraaij Professor of Applied data analytics
Faculty of Science

Fighting corona starts with sharing data responsibly News - 30 March 2020
Gathering and distributing patient data can make an important contribution to containing the coronavirus. But if we want to be successful, we need better data. With this objective in mind, Leiden data stewards have joined the Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN).

Jaap-Willem Mink Data Steward
Social & Behavioural Sciences