Preservation by Laurents Sesink at a knowledge exchange session with subject librarians at Leiden University Libraries, september 2017. Topic of the session: online academic collaboration by use of virtual research environments.

1. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
VREs
Universiteit Leiden
Laurents Sesink, Centre for Digital Scholarship
Kennisdeelsessie FLD
04-09-2017

2. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Leiden University Institutional Plan 2015-2020
Supporting academics in the transition to a more interactive
academic environment by setting up a Centre for Digital Scholarship
within the Leiden University Libraries.
University Leiden 2015 – 2020
• Sharing and collaboration are keywords in today’s academic practice. The arrival of open access
and open data means that the sharing of research data and results and collaboration in collecting,
analysing and publishing them are becoming increasingly important.
• Leiden University wants to make it easier for academics to share information and to collaborate by
providing state-of-the-art ICT support and infrastructure.
• The University is therefore setting up a Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University Libraries
Leiden, that will provide services to researchers and students in the use of new technology,
including in terms of digital research methods, open access, data management and social
networking.

3. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
’Digital Scholarship’
Answering research questions with new digital technologies.
Digital Scholarship has consequences for:
• Research – Access to Big data and metadata, (inter) disciplinar
collaboration, development of new methodologies, technologies and
instruments. Data Science
• Research process – Requirements of research funders, -
organisations, publishers and government regarding Research Data
management.

4. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
’Digital Scholarship’
• Publication process – New possibilities for online publishing,
requirements of government and funding organisations regarding
Open Access
• Digital Longevity – New approaches to long term preservation
of the scholarly record. Digital Preservation

5. Discover the world at Leiden University
ü Secure storage : integrity, availability,
confidentiality
ü Data must remain available for 10 years
ü Data should be ‘FAIR’
ü Provide documentation, metadata, software
for reuse
ü Archive data in a certified archive
ü Write a data management plan (DMP)
BEFOREDURINGAFTER
Leiden University : Data Management Regulation (apr. 2016)

6. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Data Science @ Leiden University
• Leiden Centre for Data Science
• Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities
• University broad Phd programma
Data Science
• Centre for Digital Scholarship

7. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Data Science Support
• Centre for Digital Scholarship
• Text & Data Mining
• Data & Metadata
• VREs
• GIS
• Database modelling & websites

8. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Expertise UBL
• Collaboration environments (VREs)
• Repository infrastructure (data and metadata)
•Text- & Data mining
• Database design, websites
•GIS

9. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Datamanagement & Data Science & VREs
• Datamanagement:
- During: integrity, availability, confidentiality
- After: Data should be ‘FAIR’; Provide documentation,metadata, software for
reuse; Archive data in a certified archive
• Data Science:
- During: Collaborate; Create metadata; Enrich; Annotate; Link; Text- and
Data Mining; Visualiza: GeoReference
• VRE: For Collaboration and Data Science
•Repository infrastructure: For long term storage
• Trusted Digital Repositories: For Long term storage

10. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Datamanagement & Data Science & VREs
• Use Case: North Korean Posters
- Collect digital posters; create metadata and annotations (VRE)
- Collaborate in a secure environment (VRE)
- Create a collection (metadata, digital posters) (Repository)
- Long term access to the collection (Repository)
- Additional data as dataset (DANS EASY)
- Visualization of metadata, annotations, digital posters, additional data
(IIIF)

11. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Datamanagement & Data Science & VREs
• Infrastructure

12. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Datamanagement & Data Science & VREs
• Use Case: Rural Riches
- Share documents, write publications, internal communications. (VRE)
- Ingest data (metadata, digital objects). (Websites & Databases)
- GIS.
- Long Term Access

13. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
VRE and data management (plan)
Share your data and other documents
Add standardized metadata
Publish or archive your data
Link easily to data
Persistent identifier
Proposal : mention VRE in your data management
paragraph (data protection procedures)
VRE
DANS 3TU
VRE
Archives
Centre for
Digital
Scholarship

14. Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
VRE
• Start of a project
• Before, during, after
• Flexible

15. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Questions?