The finalists of this year’s Dutch Data Prize
On 17 October, the Dutch Data Prize 2024 will be awarded during the FAIR-IMPACT National Roadshow in The Hague. From the 52 submitted datasets, the jury has selected the final three candidates in each of the categories; Social Sciences & Humanities, Life Sciences & Health, and Natural & Engineering Sciences. These nine finalists have a chance to win the Dutch Data Prize 2024 and a cash prize of €3,500, intended to make their dataset even more FAIR.
Award ceremony
The finalists are invited to present their dataset during a 90-second pitch at the award ceremony on October 17. “We see this as an opportunity for the finalists to draw attention to their work in making their research dataset FAIR and also to enhance their research impact. A moment of fame as it were, and well deserved”, says Dr Claudia van Oppen, jury chair for the Dutch Data Prize 2024 and Director of Maastricht University Library. The winners will be announced and awarded on Thursday, October 17. The award ceremony will also be broadcast live.
Finalists in the category of Natural and Engineering Sciences are:
- Impact-Aware Robotics Database – Maarten Jongeneel, Alessandro Saccon – Eindhoven University of Technology;
- The FAIR Model Catalog for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling Research – Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Tiago Prince, Pedro Paulo Favato Barcelos – University of Twente, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Leiden University Medical Centre, Federal University of Espírito Santo
- High-resolution SPH simulations of a 2D dam-break flow against a vertical wall – Giordano Lipari, Cornelis Vuik – Watermotion | Waterbeweging and Delft University of Technology
Finalists in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities are:
- Corpus Gesproken Nederlands – Nelleke Oostdijk – Radboud Universiteit
- Generations and Gender Survey – Olga Grunwald, Anne Gauthier – Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
- European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG) – Raphaël Troncy, Pasquale Lisena, Thibault Ehrhart, Marieke van Erp, Inger Leemans – Eurecom France and Humanities Cluster, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Finalists in the category of Life Sciences and Health are:
- Xeno-canto – Willem-Pier Vellinga, Bob Planqué – Stichting Xeno-canto voor natuurgeluiden
- Brassicaceae Tree of Life – Kasper Hendriks – Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster – Marnix Medema – Wageningen University and Research
Dutch Data Prize
Every two years, the Dutch Data Prize is awarded to an individual or a team that makes reusable research data available in a repository. The prize is a valuable recognition of researchers’ contributions to their field and to the principles of FAIR data. The prize money is intended to further improve the FAIRness of data and encourage data reuse. Winners can, for example, use the funds to organise a symposium or enhance the accessibility of their data online.
The Dutch Data Prize has been awarded since 2010. These were the previous winners.