FAIR Coffee lecture – Szilvia Zörgő (pre-announcement)
Available spaces: 99/ 100
UM is on a mission to become a leading example in the Open Science movement, which aims to make research papers, data, methods, etc. open to anyone so we can all benefit. The FAIR principles go hand-in-hand with Open Science and they form a great guide to make sure that the research you make Open, can actually be used. With the FAIR Coffee lecture series, the Open Science Community of UM, in collaboration with the Community for Data-Driven Initiatives (CDDI), will help you find out more about these topics and discover how your colleagues have applied Open Science and FAIR principles to their research. These lectures are a perfect chance to dip your toes in the FAIR water and find inspiration in the work of others! Coffee/tea and cookies will be waiting for you!
For this session of the FAIR Coffee lecture, on June 17th 2025 at 11.00, we’ve invited Szilvia Zörgő, a cultural anthropologist by trade with a PhD in mental health sciences. Interested in qualitative, mixed, and unified research methods related to healthcare and human-information interaction. Core Lecturer Computational Social Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The Potential of Interoperability in Qualitative Research
The Reproducible Open Coding Kit (ROCK) is an open, human- and machine-readable standard developed to enable interoperability for working with qualitative data and facilitate collaboration via exchanging data and analyses in a format agnostic to any specific software. The ROCK comprises a set of concepts and conventions to be deployed in plain text files, such as identifiers to represent codes and information about data provenance, attributes of data providers or coders, and how codes relate to each other (e.g., hierarchical/network relationships). The standard is implemented in several open-source applications: the R package {rock}, a series of Shiny apps, and a javascript application (iROCK). These facilitate working with qualitative data (e.g., segmentation, coding, specifying attributes) and enable both longstanding and more innovative analyses. During the session, we will walk through the ROCK standard, explore some of its implementations, and discuss what interoperability can signify in qualitative research. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to the session.
The program is as follows:
- 11.00 A quick introduction on FAIR/Open Science and the FAIR Coffee lecture series
- 11.15 Main lecture by Szilvia Zörgő (Including discussion/questions)
- 11.55 Closing statement
This session will be a hybrid lecture, which you can either attend in person (location: Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1, room C2.017 ) or via Zoom (link will be shared in the confirmation email). Please indicate how you will attend by registering on the right side of the page.
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Future events
More Fair Coffee lectures are in the planning for 2025.