Research Support

Research software encompasses any software created during the research process or for a research purpose (Barker et al., 2022). RDM offers consultations and services for improving your software development skills; building your software; managing versions; publishing it; archiving it and making it sustainable, reproducible, and FAIR, amongst other topics. RDM also offers general intakes tailored to your expertise level, the maturity of your software, and the progress of your research. 

Amsterdam UMC has traditionally been concerned with the quality of software used in healthcare. In line with the data-driven strategy, we also have enjoyed the benefits of investments in effective research data management. We now see an opportunity to extend this towards research software, thereby improving the quality of medical science and better translating scientific discoveries to healthcare improvements. Hence, we invest in research software management in synergy with data management. 

Our initiatives include: 

• Offering tooling that is practical and compliant, like GitHub as a forge for managing software versioning. 
• Learning from the research groups and consolidate software competence that is already present but fragmented 
• Facilitating FAIR data, FAIR software, and corresponding instruments such as Software Management Plans 
• Promoting interoperability and machine-actionability via collaborations on software metadata  
• Upskilling researchers, by offering training in collaboration with our partner universities, UvA and VU, in the form of Software Carpentries 

• Align with nation, European, and global-wide initiatives, such as the Research Software Directory, Health-RI, TDCC-LSH, NL-RSE, ELIXIR, SciCodes and RDA.