LSH-INTEROPERABILITY

Acronym: LSH-INTEROPERABILITY
Title: Collective research data workflow assembly to enhance FAIR practices across the Dutch Life Sciences and Health domain
Keywords:  Interoperabilty, Metadata, Semantic, Tools & Resources, Community
Project lead:  Mr. drs M.J. Flikweert & Dr. R (Ruben) Kok
Funder: OSNL (link to the CALL TEXT)
Start date: 01.06.2025
Ends on: 31.01.2029

Public Summary​

Researchers within the Life Sciences and Health domain have a hard time to find, access and reuse data resources relevant to them. This project will help improve this situation and boost the transition to Open Science by making data resources more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) across the Dutch LSH domain, while collaborating with existing initiatives. International alignment comes from close involvement in organisations such as ELIXIR, EOSC and RDA. We will appoint a FAIR metadata specialist and a bioinformatics/technical specialist to support alignment among LSH research initiatives and help realise a collective FAIR data environment valuable for end-users.

Our events

• 30 June 2026 — LSRI Software Challenges Workshop (event page)
• 22 May 2026 — Connecting Knowledge: Tackling Interoperability in Research (event page)
• 15 April 2026 — Data Interoperability Workshop at WUR
• 13 April 2026 — Workshop: Towards a Coherent Landscape for LSRIs: Standards, Metadata & Shared Solutions (event page)
• 24 March 2026 — Demystifying research data interoperability (report)
• 24 October 2025 — Joint TDCC Discussion on Interoperability Challenges at the National Open Science Festival (report)

Responsible institution(s) and department(s)​
● Health-RI