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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.

Love Data Week: To keep or discard, a workshop on research data retention Event - 12 February 2026
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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 - 10 March 2026
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) Event - 11 May 2026
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) Event - 25 June 2026
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Demystifying research data interoperability: A joint Leiden / Delft workshop Event - 26 February 2026
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Data Carpentry with R for Social Sciences and Humanities Event - 25 March 2026
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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).

‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’ News - 15 August 2017
Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal specialist, is enthusiastic about the research. ‘A big data project like this will help us establish the effect of our work on society.’

Jaap-Willem Mink Data Steward
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences