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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.

From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters Event - 22 May 2026
Lecture

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.

Cleaning Data with OpenRefine Event - 9 June 2026
Workshop

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.

data management regulations and protocols
overview of Leiden University research data management policy documents like regulations and protocols

Ethical Sharing of Fieldwork Data Event - 10 June 2026
Workshop

Connect & Link publications and data Event - 8 June 2026
Webinar with Q&A

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 - 11 June 2026
Workshop

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.’

eLaw researchers publish book on EU data protection law News - 22 March 2019
Researchers from eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies, published a new book on EU data protection law.

Team UBLeiden wins audience award Hackathon Linked Open Data News - 12 February 2018
Last weekend, Team UBLeiden won the audience award after a 24 hours Hackathon with Linked Open Data (HackaLOD)! The team volunteered to be locked up with many ‘cultural competing colleagues' in the Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam. For the HackaLOD Team UBLeiden combined in a game prints of monuments and…