Tilburg researchers receive NWO Open Science Fund 2023
With the NWO Open Science Fund, NWO wants to reward researchers for their efforts in the field of open science. They can receive a maximum of 50,000 euros for their project. Two Tilburg research projects have been selected and will receive this fund.
Open science means that scientists share their data with the world so that others can use it. The data must be open, freely accessible, transparent and reusable. Read more about the researchers and their research projects below.
Research project ‘Accelerating Social Research Tools Through Open-Source and AI: Extending the CPF Data Harmonization Model (CROWDSS_CPF)’
This project by Konrad Turek and Matthijs Kalmijn will scale up and extend the first fully open-source data harmonization initiative in social sciences, the Comparative Panel File (CPF). CPF integrates seven major household panel surveys, offering extensive opportunities for comparative life-course studies. The innovative, crowd-based design has allowed various initiatives to grow around the CPF over the last three years. This project will integrate them, advance the platform, and add new tools to improve open collaborations and management (based on artificial intelligence and software engineering). We aim to build a sustainable open-cooperation model and promote it as a powerful supplement to conventional infrastructure in social science.
Research project ‘Mini Many Labs: Creating a shared infrastructure for collaborating within the Experience Sampling Method community to improve reproducibility’
This project, led by Eeske van Roekel and including Dominique Maciejewski as a team member, focuses on the experience sampling method (ESM). Researchers are increasingly turning to smartphone diary techniques, such as the ESM to understand the dynamic daily-life processes underpinning a range of psychological phenomena. ESM is booming, but remains a methodological wild west, where methodological challenges threaten transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. The Mini Many Labs project will create an open platform and infrastructure to advance collaboration and foster open and team science within the ESM research community, by facilitating collaborative research projects, embedding open science practices and training within these projects, thus driving culture change in a field where open science is the exception not the norm.
Research project ‘A Platform for Psychology Data Merging and Sharing (GIGAPsych)’
Antonios Koutsoumpis is a team member on a project at VU Amsterdam. This project is the development of an openly accessible platform where all researchers can share and request psychology data. The platform will contain data from panels that offer a unique ID (e.g., Prolific.co). The data will be automatically merged based on the unique ID. The main goals are (a) the development of standard templates on how researchers can share their data, (b) machine-readable codebooks to automate data merging, (c) legal documents to make the project General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant addressing privacy and data management issues, and (d) a platform to either download data or provide real-time online analyses.