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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 1d

Online Event: Integrating Repositories into the broader Open Science Landscape

Thursday 30th October, 4pm

Virtual Networking Forum: Integration of Institutional Open Access Repositories into the broader Open Science Landscape

www.ibi.hu-berlin.de

Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 1d

How much are you spending on collections and publishing?

Here's a breakdown of TU Delft's projected collections and publication costs for 2026. (Roughly 7.6m Euros in total)

(Thanks to Louise Otting for collating figures)

TU Delft Collections and Publishing Costs for 2026 - TU Delft Library collections

Below is collections and publishing budget for TU Delft in 2026 (subject to final approval as part of the overall library budget). The total budget for collections and publishing is €7,615,000, the…

library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 1d

What is Ricgraph?

Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers, teams, their results, collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.

www.ricgraph.eu/what-is-ricg...

Developed by Rik Janssen from University of Utrecht

What is Ricgraph? – Website Ricgraph - Research in context graph

Ricgraph (Research in context graph) enables the exploration of researchers, teams, their results, collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.

www.ricgraph.eu

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 2d

DH Benelux will take place in beautiful Maastricht in early June 2026

The call for papers is now open

2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers 2026 - DH Benelux 2026

2026 CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSIONS, TOPICS & IMPORTANT DATES Storytelling is fundamental to human experience; stories help us make sense of the world, preserve and narrate our heritage, construct identi...

2026.dhbenelux.org

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see Barcelona Declaration team tackling openness of publication metadata

Lack of clarity in this area has really hampered efficient sharing and discovery

Barcelona Declaration and OA2020 Launch Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata – OA2020

We are excited to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata, established in partnership between the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information…

oa2020.org

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 2d

Advocacy Kit for Open Science

And EU project (Skills4EOSC) has created an Advocacy Kit to empowers users to promote Open Science skills to policymakers and funders to help foster steady policy support.

Advocacy Kit

Skills4EOSC ‘Skills for the European Open Science commons: creating a training ecosystem for Open and FAIR science’ is funded by the European Commission Horizon Europe programme (GA 101058527)

www.skills4eosc.eu

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 5d

@4turesearchdata.bsky.social are piloting Codecheck

✅ This helps verify that the code behind research outputs runs and successfully reproduces the key results from the related publication.

data.4tu.nl/info/about-y...

4TU.ResearchData

4TU.ResearchData is an international data repository for science, engineering and design. We offer research dataset curation, sharing, long-term access and preservation services to anyone, anywhere. O...

data.4tu.nl

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats to three nominees for Leo Waaijers Open Science award!

- Barcelona Declaration (www.researchequals.com)
- ResearchEquals (www.researchequals.com)
- EnvisionBox (envisionbox.org)

ukb.nl/nieuws/de-sh...

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 6d

Come and work with a great team!

Paula Martinez Lavanchy @paulamartinezl.bsky.social · 6d

📢 We're hiring! Join TU Delft Library as a Trainer in Research Data Management & Digital Skills. 2 temp positions (until 31 Dec 2026) in a diverse, international team.
📅 Apply by 22 Oct
🔗 Info: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Tr...

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 8d

Not quite sure what to make of Unesco's Museum of Stolen Heritage website

museum.unesco.org

It feels like some art wellness app by a developer who's revisiting his 2007 love of Adobe Flash

Why not just use web standards?

UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects

Discover the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.

museum.unesco.org

Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 12d

Our Diamond OA publisher, TU Delft Open, published 45 books in 2024

20 textbooks, 18 edited volumes, 4 conference books, 3 monographs
One significant growth area: interactive textbooks (25% of the textbooks)

openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl/tu-delft-ope...

TU Delft OPEN Publishing | 2024 Annual Report - Blog TU Delft OPEN Publishing

2024 marked the 5-year anniversary of TU Delft OPEN Publishing (TUDOP) Publications Highlights | Books In April 2024, we reached the milestone of 100 books published. The landmark textbook publication...

openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 18d

🎉Great to see @internetarchive.eu developing in Europe.

💪We're going need 'em!

Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 19d

We had an amazing launch of our new headquarters in Amsterdam. Thank you to everyone who made it a fantastic afternoon and it was a beautiful sunny day! Such great luck. Sebastian’s photos did a great job capturing the atmosphere and enthusiasm.

Internet Archive Europe Open House, 19 September 2025

The Open House event on 19 September 2025 celebrated the official opening of Internet Archive Europe's new headquarters in Amsterdam. This significant milestone marks Internet Archive Europe’s commitm...

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 22d

Some early (slightly bland?) research on how ChatGPT is used.

“Practical Guidance,” “Seeking Information,” and “Writing” are
the three most common topics and collectively account for nearly 80% of all conversations.

www.nber.org/system/files...

www.nber.org

Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 22d

Interested in coordinating a two year project to improve digital skills for researchers in the sciences?

Then apply for this position @4turesearchdata.bsky.social

careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Pr...

Project Coordinator

careers.tudelft.nl

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 23d

This is a thoughtful article on standing firm on CC licences and reuse in the AI scraping era.

Also, was / is CC-BY a mistake?

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 25d

Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social

AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

doi.org

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 27d

Loving the concept and content on News Minimalist: newsminimalist.com

Using ML to rank news stories by "importance" (scale, impact, novelty, credibility, legacy) and gives you a feed of only high scoring items.

At first glance, better quality than the front page of the BBC, Guardian, or NYT

Screenshot of News Minimalist homepage showing a distribution graph of news stories ranked by importance and a list of high ranking stories below it.

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 27d

Research Software Training NL has got a new lease of life!

A network bringing together and facilitating training organisations in the Netherlands in the areas of research software, programming skills, applied data science, computational skills and open source.

researchsoftwaretraining.nl/about/

About the network – Research Software Training NL

researchsoftwaretraining.nl

Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 27d

Great to see Utrecht University Library decide to stop with Web of Science. And also good to see that their ageument centres on the importance of open.

Jeroen Bosman @jeroenbosman.bsky.social · 28d

Utrecht University Library will not renew their Web of Science license. Access to this database with closed, proprietary data ends in 2026. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce.... Step by step we foster a science system with open metadata. We committed to that by signing the @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026

The University Library has decided not to renew its licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports). This means that, as of 1 January 2026, UU staff, UMC Utrecht staff and UU students will no longer have access to Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports.

Why are we discontinuing Web of Science, including the Journal Citation Reports?

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 28d

Here's Google's commitment to the Digital Humanities, from 2010

I wonder how well it is holding up

Our commitment to the digital humanities

Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)It can’t have been ver...

research.google

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 28d

CRIS tenders, Open Science projects, Scholarly Communications Principles and more

Quick list of work being done by TU Delft Library Research services in autumn 2025

library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/09/03/w...

What’s on the autumn agenda for TU Delft Library Research Services – Library4Research

Posted on September 3, 2025 by Alastair Dunning - Updated September 10, 2025

library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 28d

💻Good software development is essential for more than half of scientific research (probably even more)

🏛️How do institutions deal with issues around ownership, sharing, archiving of such software?

🗒️A good list of policies from @researchsoftware.bsky.social
www.researchsoft.org/institutiona...

Research Software Alliance

Our vision: Research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognised and valued as fundamental and vital to research worldwide.

www.researchsoft.org

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · Aug 29

We had a couple of false starts at TU Delft in using the iRods software for research data management.

But now we are finally getting somewhere with using it with various different interfaces, to suit different use cases and user skill levels.

Explanation of why iRods:
vmblog.com/archive/2024...

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · Aug 29

The mere existence of the phrase 'Holocaust AI slop' is a terrible indictment of current technological position

"BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reposted by Alastair Dunning

Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · Aug 28

In 2021, CC Certificate alum and Learning Developer at the Delft University of Technology, Bea de los Arcos, started a project called “We Like Sharing”, a bank of over 1,000 photos taken by TU Delft staff, students, and alums under a CC license. Check it out: www.flickr.com/people/welik....

www.flickr.com

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ernst Kuipers, who was the public face of Dutch hospitals during the Covid-19 outbreak, is appointed to be Chair of TU Delft's Supervisory Board

www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tu-d...