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14 articles · Latest April 9, 2026

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 9, 2026

FOSDEM 2026: Observations and key takeaways

If you missed FOSDEM 2026 — the largest conference dedicated to open-source software — you can still absorb some of the experience as shared by NLeSC RSEs Flavio Hafner, Ole Mussm...

Patrick Bos·Sep 25, 2025

Be like Jurriaan

Write copy-pasteable READMEs for developers The main message of this post is short: Thank you, Jurriaan H. Spaaks , for including developer’s READMEs in the zenodraft and the zenod...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 25, 2025

Introduction to Deep Learning with Python

Written by Sven van der Burg, Carsten Schnober, Sarah M. Brown and Toby Hodges Engineers and instructors at the eScience Center have developed lots of open source lesson materials...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Feb 10, 2025

Reproducible research with The Turing Way

The Netherlands eScience Center and Turing Way have long been collaborating on the common goal to improve reproducible research practices 1 A long time ago, in the far-away Amsterd...

Lourens Veen·Nov 27, 2024

Is scientific software the new land grab?

3 Scientific software platforms are not always as open as they look at first sight. Avoid getting locked in with this advice! “Do you know what CodeOcean is? Should I do this?” As...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 12, 2023

How to ensure that others can run your code

6 By Julian Gonggrijp This blog was originally written for the Utrecht University (UU) website by Scientific Programmer Julian Gonggrijp. We enjoyed this useful blog post, and hope...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2023

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community Imagine you’re a researcher who developed a brilliant piece of software that may be useful to many...

Lieke de Boer·Jun 8, 2023

NL-RSE: What Open Science can learn from Open Source

NL-RSE meetups are bimonthly events where the Dutch community for Research Software Engineers comes together to learn new skills or hear inspiring talks by experts in the field of...

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021

Still coding texts by hand for social science text analysis? Use Doccano instead to speed up the process!

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021 Coder-centered: It is designed to make the coder’s life as easy as possible. You view one text at a time at the center of your screen. All you have t...

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Felipe·Jan 15, 2021

Building a Web Service to Manage Scientific Simulation Data Using GraphQL

Therefore, the Ceiba web service needs to handle two kinds of requests by the client: read-only queries and mutations on the datasets. These “queries” and “mutations” can be easily...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2019

The success of reliable integration of renewable energy

Countries, companies and individuals are increasingly aware of the need to keep our world clean by supporting sustainable energy. The landscape is evolving rapidly. Of the various...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Are you a researcher? You may not know it yet, but good software skills are just what you need

The previous example may look like (and actually is) quite silly. But remember that code is alive. Something that today is a simple function tomorrow may be more complicated. Imagi...

Ben van Werkhoven·Dec 2, 2019

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

An important part of giving proper attribution is to make your software citable and to cite others when you build upon their work. Stephan and others have developed the Citation Fi...

Lourens Veen·Oct 5, 2017

free as in free market

Or why the GNU General Public License is open for business When you release your software on the Internet for others to use, you need to choose a license for it. One issue you migh...