Digital Scholarship and Skills

Goal

The UKB Digital Scholarship and Skills working group strives to improve the digital scholarship and skills activities of the UKB institutions through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Activities

The UKB working group meets four times a year. In these meetings, we share important developments within and outside our own organisation and discuss a specific theme. This theme is prepared by one or more members of the working group. This year’s themes are Digital Tools & Tool Criticism, Digital (Library) Skills and Digital Collections.

Members of the working group are involved in national and international initiatives and working groups:

  • · In the UKB/SHB project Open Sharing 2: Open Educational Materials for Digital Skills, we are working on the creation of a taxonomy for digital skills and making digital skills materials freely accessible for higher education.
  • · Within the LIBER Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage Collections working group, we contribute to the creation of a collaborative and sustainable training hub for the development of skills in Digital Scholarship, Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science.

Members

The working group consists of 12 members, some of whom are represented by two members, and a liaison from the UKB Board. The working group elects a chair from among its members.

Steven Claeyssens – National Library of the Netherlands
David Veltman – University of Groningen
Stephanie van de Sandt – VU Amsterdam
Ben Companjen – Leiden University
Dennis Bus – Leiden University
Paul Plaatsman – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Levi Damsma – Radboud University Nijmegen
Peter Verhaar – Leiden University, chair
Arja Firet – Utrecht University, co-chair
Eva Lekkerkerker – University of Amsterdam

UKB Liaison: Martijn Kleppe – National Library of the Netherlands

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