292 search results for “archives” in the Staff website
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Archive management
The Archive Records Act and Archive Decision regulate the storage of information in documents (digital and analogue), information systems and websites.
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Archive management manuals
The Documentary Information and Archive Management (DIA) department has developed a number of manuals for the archive management of the University’s expertise centres and faculties. These manuals offer practical support for your archive management.
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What to archive?
Start thinking in advance about the selection for long-term preservation.
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Open Science and archiving
Slowly but surely Open Science is becoming a standard in scholarly research, making it more open, collaborative, transparent, and after all FAIR, from its planning stages to publishing and re-use of data.
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Bringing Archives to Life: Exploring legacy materials, digital tools, and data utilization
Conference, Workshop
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides
The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This has greatly improved the findability, visibility and ease of use of these collection finding aids.
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Student cleans up archival data and uncovers two stellar cocoons
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master's student Sam de Regt discovered that two of those stars were still enveloped in birth clouds. Never before has anyone captured these two stars in so much detail. He publishes his data-cleaning method…
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Theory in Practice: researching race in the Dutch legal archive
On Thursday 23 November, Professor Betty de Hart delivered the lecture ‘Exploring the Legal Archive on Race: Methodological Challenges’ as part of the lecture series ‘Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze’ organized by the Van Vollenhoven Institute. Over 40 people attended the lecture, held online due…
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.j.bes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2768
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Archival Photo Negative Collection: A Glimpse into the Past, Holding the Mirror to the Present
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Archaeology which naturally leads to questions about its past. Part of the answer might be hidden in the archival photo negatives that paint a lively portrait of archaeological research taking place more than half a century ago.
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Pais" interviews’ collection officially handed over to Rotterdam City Archive
A collection of interviews from the oral history project "Storia de Nhas Pais" ("Story of my Parents") was handed over to the Rotterdam City Archive on 26 November 2021.
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Tip: read news articles for free in the Nexis Uni online newspaper archive
Library
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik
The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The collection and archive provide insight into the life and work of Robert van Gulik, who became known to the general public for…
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KIEM grant for 'CARMA: Community Archive and Repository for Multimodal and Artistic Research'
Andrew Hoffman (CADS), Mark Westmoreland (CADS) and Yasmin Ismail (CADS) have received a KIEM grant of € 10.000 for their project 'CARMA: Community Archive and Repository for Multimodal and Artistic Research'. The grant will be used to create a 'living laboratory' that helps researchers, data management…
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Milco Wansleeben
Faculteit Archeologie
m.wansleeben@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2930
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Data & Drinks: Data Archiving
Hands-on instruction
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
t.w.m.de.boer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Exploring Web Archives
Lecture
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Version Management
Determine how you keep track of the final version and intermediate versions.
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Bareez Majid
Faculty of Humanities
b.majid@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5154
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Academic Historical Museum
The University’s historical collection is housed in the Academic Historical Museum. The museum is situated in the Academy Building.
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Lecture 2023: The Place of Archives in Modern African Studies: A Searchlight on the Patronage of National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan
Lecture
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Datamanagement
Data management refers to creating, saving, updating, making available, archiving and long-term storage of research data. The final goal of this process is often defined in terms of the FAIR principles: 'Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable'.
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File formats
For people to reuse your data, the file formats you publish them in must be “open” as well.
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Internal communication tools
An organisation the size of Leiden University requires careful internal communication.
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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Research Data Management in Archaeology
Doing research in archaeology is more than just gathering data and publishing a paper. Nowadays, there is a growing trend in producing well-defined and responsible data management plans. They help to navigate the process and result in good data management practices which in return benefit the researchers…
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ReCNTR Talk: The Country Without a Post Office / Archiving Photographic Histories of Armed Conflict
Lecture
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Datamanagement
Data management refers to creating, saving, updating, making available, archiving and long-term storage of research data. The final goal of this process is often defined in terms of the FAIR principles: 'Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable'.
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Information Security
Taking care of storing your data and making timely backups is a crucial step of good research data management practices because it is not possible to archive something that has been lost.
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ICT and research
ICT plays an important role in scientific research. With the help of ICT it is easier to collect, manage, analyse and share complex research data.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland
Lecture
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Data storage
Your options for data storage may vary depending on factors such as size and sensitivity of the data or collaboration with partners outside the university. We are all responsible for data protection. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security…
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Open Access and access rights
Complete open access may not be possible because of various reasons: research ethics, privacy legislation, intellectual property, continuing research. The Easy archive at KNAW/DANS provides various access levels to deal with these issues.
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Graduate School FGGA: Research data management course
Didactics, Career development
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Do your thesis research in Rome with a Thesis Scholarship for (Res)MA Students
Education, Research
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Scientific Integrity for PhD candidates in Archaeology and the Humanities
Research
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Internal communication tools
An organisation the size of Leiden University requires careful internal communication.
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Privacy and data protection
We are all responsible for data protection. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.
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Professor Joanita Vroom investigates medieval Greece with The Packard Humanities Institute grant
In 2024, Professor Joanita Vroom received a substantial grant from the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) in support for her Hinterlands of Medieval Chalcis Project (HMC Project) in Greece. PHI, a California-based non-profit organization, is dedicated to archaeological research as well as to the preservation…
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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From Remindo to Ans
Starting from the academic year 2024-2025, the entire university will be using testing platform Ans for digital assessment. The Faculty of Humanities will make this switch from Remindo to Ans in the second semester (February 2025).
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Hong Kong's Place in South East Asia
PhD defence
- This Time for Africa! series
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Lauren Antonides wins Roggeveen thesis prize
Alumna Lauren Antonides has won the Roggeveen Prize for her thesis on the regional identity of Zeelandic Flanders. She will receive a sum of 1,000 euros.
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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Tests and theses
See your Faculty’s tab for more information on what we expect of you as a lecturer, before, during and after tests and examinations, and when supervising students in writing their thesis.
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Metadata
Keep in mind a fellow researcher: someone who knows your area of expertise, but not necessarily as well as you do. Are your files understandable as they are, or do they need cleaning enhancement? Keep the right balance: make sure the metadata is sufficient for reuse, but do not get carried away and…