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What has a decade of RDNL brought us and what else is in store for the future? Looking back with the winners of the Dutch Data Prize
Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) is a national coalition of data service providers and expertise networks that focus on creating a findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) research data ecosystem, by organizing training and expertise building activities in the field of research data management, FAIR implementation and sustainable data archiving through long-term data accessibility or data preservation. The coalition currently consists of 4TU.ResearchData, DANS, SURF and Health-RI.
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, we are looking back at some of the activities organized by RDNL. One of those activities includes the biennial award ceremony of the prestigious Dutch Data Prize (DDP) to support and accredit researchers that have made exceptional contributions to making research data more FAIR. The Dutch Data Prize originally started out in 2010 as the ‘Nederlandse Dataprijs’, which was founded by Peter Doorn and was exclusively awarded to datasets in the Social Sciences and Humanities domain. Later on, this prize was renamed to the Dutch Data Prize and two extra prize categories were added by the addition of the Natural and Engineering Sciences (2012) and the Life Sciences and Health domain (2016). Nowadays, the Dutch Data Prize ceremony has become an important and festive part of the program of the FAIR Data Day.
We interviewed some of the previous winners: Maarten Marx (UVA, winner of the year 2012), Joaquin Vanschoren (TU/e, winner of the year 2016) and Antica Culina (NIOO-KNAW, winner incentive prize of the year 2020), who were bestowed the Dutch Data Prize award. Follow us in this three-part series (part 1, part 2 and part 3) where we ask them: What the Dutch Data Prize entailed for them, why they find FAIR data important and why researchers should nominate themselves for this prize?
