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Restructuring and redesign

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In the past few weeks, we did two major updates in the Research Support Handbook. The tool documentation has been restructured and renamed. The website as a whole has been…

Jolien Scholten, Peter Vos

Seventh Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On November 27, 2025, all authors participated in the seventh hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. For this hackathon, we focused on Consolidating content and adding…

Diógenes Cruz de Arcelino, Kirianne Goossen, Sergio Gutierrez Maury, Elisa Rodenburg, Jolien Scholten, Peter Vos, Tycho Hofstra, Jessica Hrudey, Tim Veken, Janna Toebosch, Sreenithya Avadakkam, Wiebe Timmers, Abeer Pervaiz

New Manuals section in the Handbook

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Yoda

Last week we added a new section to the Research Support Handbook: Manuals. Manuals are short pages describing how to accomplish specific tasks in a Tool and should be…

Sixth Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On July 24, 2025, all authors participated in the sixth hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. For this hackathon, we focused on adding and updating topics.

Emily Barabas, Diógenes Cruz de Arcelino, Kirianne Goossen, Charlie Greene, Sergio Gutierrez Maury, Sam Heijnen, Marcel Ras, Elisa Rodenburg, Jolien Scholten, Dimitri Unger, Peter Vos

ITvO blog

IT for Research

From now on the ITvO (IT for Research) team will be using the Handbook Blog for sharing news, updates, and important announcements related to SciCloud, ADA HPC, SciStor, and…

Sergio Gutierrez, Peter Vos

How to embed handbook pages using iframes

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If you want to reuse content from the Research Support Handbook, you can do so using an HTML iframe. This post will help you through the steps to successfully embed a…

Chris Hartgerink, Elisa Rodenburg, Jessica Hrudey

Fifth Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On November 28, 2024, all authors participated in the fifth hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. For this hackathon, we focused on adding new content and…

Lena Karvovskaya, Jolien Scholten, Kostas Vilkelis, Tycho Hofstra, Irene Martorelli, Peter Vos

Fourth Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On October 30th, 2024, all authors participated in the fourth hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. Since the third hackathon, we migrated to rdm.vu.nl, which is a…

Chris Hartgerink, Lena Karvovskaya, Jolien Scholten, Tycho Hofstra, Elisa Rodenburg, Stephanie van de Sandt

Why was rdm.vu.nl down for ten hours?

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On Friday October 18th 2024, we experienced around ten hours of downtime on the rdm.vu.nl website. The downtime started around 10AM after merging changes to the handbook and…

Chris Hartgerink, Lena Karvovskaya

Third Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

In the third hackathon for the Research Support Handbook, held on September 25th, 2024, contributors gathered to make significant progress towards migrating the handbook to…

Alex van der Jagt, FGB, sec. KNOP, Chris Hartgerink (host), Diogenes Cruz de Arcelino, Elisa Rodenburg, UBVU, Jessica Hrudey, FGB, Jolien Scholten, UB, Lena Karvovskaya, UBVU, Stephanie van de Sandt, UBVU, Tycho Hofstra, UBVU

Second Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On September 5th, 2024, all authors participated in the second hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. For this hackathon, we focused on quality assurance. Quality…

Alex van der Jagt, Chris Hartgerink, Elisa Rodenburg, Jens de Bruijn, Jolien Scholten, Joy Jiayi Cheng, Lena Karvovskaya, Meron Vermaas, Peter Vos, Stephanie van de Sandt, Tycho Hofstra

First Handbook Hackathon

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Hackathon

On June 27th, 2024, the first hackathon for the Research Support Handbook took place with all the post authors. For this hackathon, we focused on non-GitHub based…

Alex van der Jagt, Chris Hartgerink, Dimitri Unger, Elisa Rodenburg, Jessica Hrudey, Jolien Scholten, Lena Karvovskaya, Lucy O’ Shea, Mar Barrantes-Cepas, Meron Vermaas, Peter Vos, Stephanie van de Sandt

Hello world!

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This is the first blog entry on the Research Support Handbook. We will be posting more at a later time, and are looking forward to your contributions as well.